Enjoy PDF Publishing Programme

Enjoy publishes a series of essays each year that are commissioned as critical, expository or creative responses to the year's exhibition programme. These essays are then also designed into a freely downloadable PDF publication, with the aim of promoting contemporary arts discourse and criticism in New Zealand. The texts can also be found on respective exhibition/project pages in our web archive, but are collated here for easy perusal.

2013

Mahi Tahi: Te Whare Pora & The Space of Collaboration - Pip Howells and Matariki Williams

Te Whare Pora PDF Catalogue - Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti and Terri Te Tau

2012

Testing Endurance - Mercedes Vicente

The Passage Is What You Are Doing - Max Trevor Thomas Edmond

Ship of Artifice: Decoding Reality in Was that cannonfire, or is it my heart pounding? - Morgan Ashworth

Illuminated / A Sculpture - Sarah Jane Barnett

Leave No Trace / Documentation Anxiety - Martin Patrick

Not Gambling - Intuitive Pathways in aaaGiLNrsty - Rhea Stevenson

The Chinese Horoscope Show - Matilda Fraser

Black Flora: Untitled - Ollie Blackmore

2011

Dreamy City Without Green Spaces by Raewyn Martyn

Horoscopes: Selected at Random by Matthew Crookes

The Weight of Jupiter by Megan Dunn

BEES Forever: The Future of Bee Construction by Nina van der Voorn

Knock On The Sky Listen To The Sound by Vera Mey

Force-Morph: Exploring the Techno-Sublime in the Art of James Bowen by Henry Davidson

2010

Was sei Aufklärung_by Tim Corballis

PODOCARPACEAE / Dacrycarpus – ASTERACEAE / Pachystegia by Sian Torrington

Wild profusion, sudden vicinity; the summer residency of Simon Glaister at Enjoy gallery By Ann Poulsen

Twelve Notes on Collectivism and Dark Matter: by Gregory Sholette. (Available here as part of the newsletter publication White Pages: Dark Matter, published on the occasion of Sholette's Winter Residency at Enjoy)

James Oram: For a Limited Time by Thomasin Sleigh

The carved house in the sky: by Jeremy Booth. (Framework. Andrew Beck)

2009

Holloway Road-The alleged visitation by L.M.: by Melanie Oliver. (Fitts & Holderness)

Gaining on lost communication: by Bruce E. Phillips. (gains on losses, John Ward Knox)

In Dialogue: by Bree Smith. (In Dialogue, Darryl Walker)

Re Don't forget your first question: A conversation between Jeremy Booth and James R Ford. (Too Orangey for Crows, James R Ford)

Urban Encounters in Cuba St: by Deidra Sullivan. (Cuba St portraits, Albrecht Fuchs, Andrea Bednarek, Andrew Beck, Nick Buckley, Zoe de Boehmler, Miriam Douglas, Wolfram Hahn, Ryan Jellyman, Jonathan Kay, Jake Mein, Matt Queree, Olivia Taylor and Nina Van der Voorn)

Requiem for set: by Rachel O'Neill. (Role. Play, Erica Sklenars, Vivian Lynn, Justine Walker)

Rejointed: by Molly Samsell. (Dove Tail Join, Florence Wild)

Encounters and End Points: by Vera Mey and Reuben Schrader. (Tea Time, Ron Dixon, Don Driver, Maiangi Waitai)

2008

Hands, songs, and shoes: by Laura Preston.(Believing in Politics. Martyn Reynolds)

Peace may reign: by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith. (Gospel. Murray Hewitt)

The Artist Came from Hong Kong: by Rachel O'Neill. (Ready made(Everyday). Lee Kit)

Red thing blue thing: by Selina Foote and Sam Rountree-Williams. (Red Thing Blue Thing)

Terminator Three was a woman: by Tao Wells. (Leading to Form. Holly Wilson and Sarah Rose)

Emma Fitts at Enjoy: by Thomasin Sleigh. (Compressed Space)

An inward, outward leap: by Jeremy Booth. (Aletheia. Tony Nicholls)

Life instincts; the politics of abject desire: by Richard Reddaway. (Life Instincts. Kate Lepper)

Wish-accident: by Rachel O'Neill; Noel Ivanoff at Enjoy: by John Hurrel. (Landing. Raewyn Martyn and Noel Ivanoff)

Outside of the box: by Hana Miller. (Our House (white indices). Trenton Garratt)

2007

The Art Machine: by Thomasin Sleigh. (M&W. harold Grieves and Kate Montgomery)

Passion and Compassion: by Jeremy Cooper. (a library to scale. Ann Shelton)

Culture and sustainability-Oil and water: by Amy Howden-Chapmen. (Oil on Troubled Water. Sophie Jerram)

An essay about several published versions of a column republished as a review within this essay: by Mark Amery. (Shelter or Marquee, Louise Menzies)

The warm thrill of confusion: Kate Montgomery in conversation with Pippa Makgill

Within you without you: by Mark Williams (It's a wonderful tonight, Louise Clifton)

Silence never smelt so good: by Rachel O'Neill (T & G Building, Tim Coster and Gaelen Macdonald)

Words, and the lack of them: by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Your words in my mind become mine. Your words are mine now., Layla Rudneva-Mackay)

In-between: by Jaenine Parkinson (A History of Space is the History of Wars, Sanné Mestrom)

Through a glass, darkly: by Francis Loeffler (Pilgrim Tourist, Clare Noonan)

The last of the magicians: by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (Actron and Reactron, Peter Trevelyan)

Patrick Lundberg—Buying wool, Describing space, Making paintings: by Martyn Reynolds (Ah, Um, Patrick Lundberg)

Teen angst: by Rudolph Hudsucker (will nature make a man of me yet?, Tao Wells)

Teen angst: by Rudolph Hudsucker (will nature make a man of me yet?, Tao Wells)

2006

Good Willing: Rachel O’Neill in conversation with Eve Armstrong (SLIPs: Small Local Improvement Projects, Eve Armstrong)

Pippin Barr on Chris Cudby's project Rhythm is best considered fractally ...

Treading the Boards: by Andrea Bell (INTERACTIONS Seminar series, Various speakers)

Old Money: by Jessica Reid (Deflation, Violet Faigan)

Sex and Agriculture: by Jessica Reid (P.R.I.E.S.T., Julien Dyne and Hamish Palmer)

Mowing down the puppies, and other suburban stories: by Sandy Gibbs (Green Belt Video Suburb, Jenny Gillam and vjRex)

Call & Response: by Louise Menzies (CLUBSproject Inc and Christopher L G Hill present work by Christopher L G Hill & James Deuthsher, and guests)

The Reconstruction and Retrieval of Enjoy Public Art Gallery: by Michael Havell (Inner City Real Estate 174/147, Fiona Connor)

Looking Up: by Louise Menzies (Calling the Mirrorical: Deep Dives into the Deepest Depths, Cryptozoologist G. Bride presents)

Looking Up: by Louise Menzies (Cloud Shape Classifier, Douglas Bagnall)

Powder Pink and Sky Blue Dreamland: by Rob Garrett (Sometimes a kiss is ... not just a kiss, Sandy Gibbs)

Enjoy 2006 Lasting Performance Series / Ghetto Gospel: by Thomasin Sleigh (Untitled (Musical performance), Thomasin Sleigh) / artists staement: Kaleb Bennett (The Threshold of Feeling) / Hot Air: by Paula Booker (Channel Chants, Raised by Wolves) / Action Buckets: by Melanie Oliver (Slowly, Gently, Confidently, Gemma Tweedie) / Can You Hold the Line Please: by Melanie Oliver (G-fab and the meat pack)

Amigos: by Paula Boooker (ROYAL ALUMNI, Curated by Fiona Jack, Featuring Nate Harrison, Rebecca Hobbs, Fiona Jack, George Kontos, Kim Schoen and Josh Stone)

S.O.S. Save Us From Ourselves: by Mark Williams (Wildlife, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith)

Time Warp: by Thomasin Sleigh (Hallways of Lives. Rachel O'Neill)

Every now and then: text by Melanie Oliver / Every now and then: text by Amy Howden Chapman