RE-FIBRA: Contemporary Textile Art - A Dialogue Between New Zealand and Sweden

  • The Blue Oyster is pleased to present RE-FIBRA: Contemporary Textile Art - A Dialogue Between New Zealand and Sweden opening on Tuesday 23 February at 5:30pm and running until Saturday 20 March.

    Expanding on a recent exhibition in Sweden of experimental textile work by New Zealand artists, RE-FIBRA brings New Zealand perspectives and practises into dialogue with the work of leading Swedish textile artists. With the inclusion of Swedish artists and reworking of pieces by New Zealand artists, this exhibition continues the conversation about the current state of textile art to include input from New Zealand audiences and practitioners.

    Featuring the work of Victoria Andersson, Andrea Chandler, Anna Eckert, Jacquelyn Greenbank, Ngahina Hohaia, Malena Karlsson, Genevieve Packer and Jeanette Scharing the exhibition has been organised by Scharing to focus on the the way these textile practises sit at the intersection between art, craft and design and to illuminate the way these artists engage with contemporary culture and politics.

    RE-FIBRA is proudly supported by the Swedish Embassy, Canberra and IASPIS.


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    The 2010 Blue Oyster Performance Series

  • Encompassing everything from body art to sound, video to installation; definitions of what performance means and what it can be are constantly shifting. The Blue Oyster Performance Series, a part of the 2010 Dunedin Fringe Festival, aims to showcase this diversity, profiling the work of a number of emerging Australasian practitioners alongside filmic documentation, historic works and discussions. From post-punk to postmodernism, this series is sure to intrigue and provoke.

    Featuring:

    Performances by Red River, Aerolineas, Full Fucking Moon, Alex Bennett and Josh Rutter, Motoko Kikkawa and Kimberly What

    Talks by Catherine Dale and Dr Suzanne Little

    Three film programmes hosted by Havanah Club and Cinema

    Exhibitions by Katrina Thompson and Aerolineas

    Click here to download the full programme

     

     

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    Simon Kaan: The Asian | Anna Muirhead: Polytears | Bryce Galloway: Same, Same (Incredibly Hot Sex with hideous People)

  • More info to come soon...


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