Coming up at Enjoy...
Kate Lepper
Life Instincts
October 9 - October 25 2008
Opening celebration October 8,
6pm
Artist Talk October 25, 2pm
Raewyn Martyn and Noel Ivanoff
October 30 - November 15 2008
2008 BuyEnjoy fundraiser and party
from 6.30pm
Thursday 11 December 2008
The National Drawing Award 2008
ARTSPACE
Exhibition Dates: 29 November–20 December 2008
Opening: Friday 28 November 2008, 6pm, Jury prizes
announced
The
Physics Room
Exhibition Dates: 21
January–7 February 2009
Closing Party: Saturday
7 February 2009, 6pm, People’s Choice Award announced
Enjoy
Public Art Gallery
Exhibition dates: 21
February–14 March 2009
Opening: Friday 20
February 2009
The National
Drawing Award 2008, presented by RVCA, is the third in an ongoing biennial
event hosted by New Zealand’s leading independent contemporary art galleries:
ARTSPACE, Auckland and The Physics Room, Christchurch. This year we are
pleased to announce that Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington is joining the
National Drawing Award.
Entries are now
closed and 361 drawings from all over New Zealand compete for the National
Drawing Award 2008. With an open call for entries, this exhibition creates an
opportunity for a broad range of people to participate, as all drawings will
be exhibited at ARTSPACE, The Physics Room and Enjoy Public Art Gallery. The People’s
Choice Award, which will be announced on 7 February 2009 at The Physics Room,
means that visitors to the exhibition can have an active role in judging part
of the competition by popular vote.
The total prize
pool for 2008 includes $5000 in cash prizes from RVCA and $800 worth of
credits at Gordon Harris art supplies. The recipients of the award will also have the opportunity
to make a t-shirt with RVCA, an international apparel brand that is engaged
with music and art production at the core of its philosophy. The winner will
develop a publication co-produced by the three participating galleries.
The 2008 winner
will be announced at the ARTSPACE opening on 28 November with the selection
being made by a jury of contemporary art professionals: Brian Butler
(Director, ARTSPACE), Kate Montgomery (Director, The Physics Room) and Siv B.
Fjærestad (Curator and Manager, Enjoy Public Art Gallery).
The inaugural National
Drawing Award in 2006 proved hugely successful in highlighting the depth and
skill of drawing practice in New Zealand. Auckland artist Christina Read's
drawing 'I Should Have Been a
Detective' was selected as the winner from 550 entries. The 2006 judges
said: ‘Once we got down to the final ten works, every drawing was so
different, following its own route of enquiry, through a range of media. It
is so heartening to see so many brilliant, funny and unsettling works
exploring this medium.’ We look forward to exhibiting
the range and diversity of work in this year’s award.
2009 Summer Residency
Enjoy's next Summer
Residency will occur in the winter of 2009, over late July and August, as we
have invited a northern-hemisphere practitioner Gregory Sholette to undertake
this residency in his summer break.
Sholette is a New
York-based artist, writer, and founding member of the artists' collectives
Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory. He is also the
co-author of several key publications: Collectivism After Modernism: The Art
of Social Imagination after 1945 with Blake Stimson (2007), and The
Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
with Nato Thompson (2004, 2006).
He frequently collaborates
with the artist Janet Koenig and is currently working on a book about the
political economy of the art world and his concept of creative dark matter
for Pluto Press. He is Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Department of
Art and Art History at Queens College.
In Wellington Sholette will
be researching and producing a new art project for an Enjoy exhibition and
participating in a public panel discussion on collaborative practices.
Sholette's Wellington residency is made possible through Enjoy's partnership
with Sondra Bacharach, of VUW's philosophy department.
Enjoy will be making an
open call for panellists to participate in the collaborative practices
discussion in 2009.
As always, we encourage
proposals for exhibition, residency, publication or performance projects to
be submitted at any time throughout the year. These are reviewed every two
months. Acceptance is subject to approval and funding. The next proposal
review is scheduled for Monday the 27th of October 2008. See 'About' for more
info on submitting proposals.
The Enjoy exhibition
program for 2008/9 is currently being confirmed. Stay close to the wire for
updates.
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