RABBIT TRAP EP OUT NOW!!!
go listen to it via link in bio ~ on soundcloud and bandcamp.
huge thank you’s to @mattgunnlol for the epic mastering 🖤
and to @newton.louis and @sarahcharlierosemusic for all your kind guidance and encouragement throughout the making of this project ❤️🔥.
and to everyone who has helped in every way big and small.
enjoy ~ 💞
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‘aaj kal / आज कल’
CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Ōtautahi @cocatoimoroki .
Ngā mihi nui to all who came to see the show/ supported from afar ❤️.
My mahi in the show, ‘duct-taped feild survey,’ is a video, audio and found object installation, consisting of found wood, tyres, twine, projector and a speaker.
Employing a found tyre, some twine, and piece of wood, I create a makeshift camera support. I tape my phone onto this object, videoing with it as I roll it around the surrounding landscape of the house I grew up in, in rural north Auckland. Via this absurdist tool, I explore ways to shift perspective of my surroundings from a human POV to the perspective of this makeshift apparatus. I roll the tyre around paddocks and garden, giving autonomy to the makeshift apparatus; rolling, falling, making its own way through the paddock.
This installation documents the artist reflecting on her own ephemeral home, a temporary presence in the landscape, exploring how place can adapt and exist in many forms and many alternate spaces, and ways that bodies might also adapt and adjust within a make-shift, in-flux space.
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Opening of 'aaj kal' next Friday 18th at CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki, Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Do come join us if you're in the big smoke ❤️🔥!!
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"'aaj kal' literally translating to “today, tomorrow/ yesterday”, is a colloquial hindi and urdu phrase that might be interpreted in English as the phrase ‘these days’."
Within and through their work, these six artists are collectively guided by a sense of movement and time. They invite the viewers into their personal reflections of their connection to place, specifically to Aotearoa, reminiscences of passed-down knowledge and spiritual epiphanies.
Like an ode to having a friend over for chai, where conversations seem to have no beginning or end, aaj kal evokes the simple pleasure of being here with good company. 🪷🪷🪷
Credits:
Text by brunelle dias
Poster by Tarika Sabherwal, Gitanjali Bhatt
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“in a sub station somewhere” opens Wednesday (17th) 5:30- 7:30, @demo_akl .
The exhibition continues Friday and Saturday, 10-2pm.
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Here things gather in some kind of communion. Abstracted and less than complete. Once banked, they now appear displaced, hovering at an intermediary stop
New work, 'pipes and hubcap apparatus,' 2024, with Tarika Sabherwal's painting, 'Pocket देवी Devi,' 2024. Currently at the exhibition 'yahaan,' at @homesteadgalleries running till 27th April 💞 So go see it if you're around there!!!
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#kisstarafforever
किस्स्तरफ़ फ़रेवर
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Image credit Ralph Brown
My work, 'rolling video apparatus at Shotover River,' 2023, with Rhea Maheshwari's work, on top left, 'celestial garden with bird messengers,' 2023, at @the_art_paper_ , for Kiss Taraf. 💋⛓
I hand-built this apparatus at the banks of Shotover River in Queenstown, largely from objects I collected from the bushes in the side of the river. This apparatus acts as an alternative filming-support to document the river bank, with my iPhone duct-taped onto its frame as it rolls across the mud and sand.
This apparatus was made in response to the Bollywood blockbuster 'I Hate Luv Stories' 2010, which featured scenes of the Shotover Canyons in 'scenic' Queenstown. The apparatus is not made to shoot the landscape in smooth, magnificent cinematic sweeps. Instead, it pokes fun at the ‘lovesick’ relationship of the filming industry with the landscape, and prefers to explore the landscape through its own perspective.
Photography by @samuel_hartnett
End slide’s video clip filmed my me.
'Lake Tekapo Video and Apparatus,' 2023. Composites from a new video and filming apparatus series; interventions conducted in the South Island. Work is currently part of the group show 'Kiss Taraf,' at the Artpaper HQ, @the_art_paper_ Lorne St, Tāmaki Makaurau. 💗
Last 3 photos by @samuel_hartnett
VEWING TIMES FOR ‘KISS TARAF’ @the_art_paper_
Open until Sun Oct 22nd
Wed-Fri 12-6 pm
Sat - Sun 12-3 pm
ARTPAPER HQ,
10 Lorne St, Level 9
(ICL Education Building)
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किस्स तरफ // Kiss Taraf // Gitanjali Bhatt (@gitanjali__bhatt )
Opening 6 October at the_art paper HQ
Video filmed and edited by Varun Chauhan @barefootgorilla , produced by @dashing.dasha
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In ‘Kiss Taraf,’ Gitanjali Bhatt (b. UK 1999) observes landscape through absurdist filming apparatuses. Satirising the ‘lovesick’ relationship between Filming Industries and New Zealand’s ‘pristine’ landscapes, she attempts to disrupt this colonial gaze by exploring alternate ways of encountering her surroundings.
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Kiss Taraf:
A kiss. Anticipation. An intimate gesture, a merging of our individual journeys. Born from a spark of newness that seeks the nurturing of togetherness, formed in the knowledge of departure that embraces an unknown direction of the in between.
In ‘Kiss Taraf’ the artists play with the word ‘Kiss, gesturing towards an affectionate way to discuss the diasporic perspectives of migrants of South Asian descent within Aotearoa. While ‘Taraf’ nods to a departure, here they ask, ‘which way;’ as the subjective experience of the physical and intangible environment enables an inquiry that shape-shifts and adapts to the habitat of the adopted land.
In Hindi, ‘Kiss Tara’ translates to ‘Which Direction’ A generous introduction to the reorientation of these five artists, the exhibition is an opportunity to acknowledge the journey and an invitation to witness a gradual ‘taking on’ of the qualities and features of new surroundings whilst the artists simultaneously familiarise themselves with their own sense of the ‘known.
