AAAH2018 & Blue Oyster Presents Blind Jam #3 featuring Motoko Kikkawa and Friends
Wednesday 19 September, 7:30pm
The Pyramid Club, 272 Taranaki St, Mount Cook, Wellington
$10 on the door
Past Event
Motoko Kikkawa's Blind Jams pay tribute to her long relationship with experimental sonic practice; inviting a number of Wellington-based collaborators to play blindfolded via experimental improvisation.
This event is the third iteration of its kind by Kikkawa, to listen to recordings of Blind Jam #1 and Blind Jam #2, visit our Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/blue-oyster-dunedin
Originally from Tokyo, Motoko Kikkawa has lived in Dunedin since 2004. She has attended Dunedin School of Art and works daily from a studio in Allbell Chambers. Recent visual exhibitions include; Current Surfer, Dirt Gallery, Wellington (2018), Never an Answer – 12 Abstract Painters, The Vivian, Auckland (2018), Forms of Perception, PG gallery 192, Christchurch (2018) Traces, Tacit Gallery, Hamilton (2018), Shortsighted Girl’s Very Thick Wall, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin (2017) and New Perspectives, Artspace Auckland (2016). Kikkawa is a past resident of None Gallery and has played solo and in collaboration at The Audio Foundation, Auckland, The Auricle, Christchurch and regularly at various independent events such as Lines of Flight.
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ABOUT AAAH2018
The Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì aims to support Asian New Zealand arts practitioners through presenting practice, sharing ideas and networking. The Huì aims to make visible settlement histories in Aotearoa and the creative cross-cultural conversations generating from our relationships with Māori, Pasifika, Pākeha, other migrant communities and with each other. This is a result of five years of sustained creative conversations and collaboration since the inaugural Chinese New Zealand Artists Hui at Corbans Estate, Auckland (2013) and the first Asian New Zealand Artists Hui at Te Tuhi in Auckland (2017).
AAAH2018 is a public festival and national gathering celebrating diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa in the Arts. This is a special opportunity to engage with themes of knowledge, encounter and visibility through exhibitions, talks and workshops by leading and emerging contemporary Asian New Zealand creative practitioners. It will take place this year from 3 - 23 September in Wellington, Aotearoa and is hosted by Massey University College of Creative Arts (CoCA) and National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. ALL WELCOME.
Registrations are now open for the Saturday Symposium (22 Sep) at Te Papa:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1035641823274886/ and weekend events, with more to come. All welcome.
Special thanks to our partners: Creative New Zealand, Wellington City Council, Chinese Poll Tax Heritage Trust, Asia New Zealand Foundation, Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM, Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, Te Tuhi, ST Paul Street AUT, Hainamana, Meanwhile Gallery, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Pyramid Club, Big Thumb Restaurant & Carol Coutts Chartered Accountant
For more information follow our Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Asian-Aotearoa-Arts-Hui-1853722814670565/?ref=br_rs
and visit: www.aaah.org.nz
Motoko Kikkawa
Originally from Tokyo, Motoko Kikkawa has lived in Dunedin since 2004. She has attended Dunedin School of Art and works daily from a studio in Allbell Chambers. Currently, Kikkawa has a solo exhibition, Current Surfer at Dirt Gallery, Wellington. Kikkawa was involved in several solo and group exhibitions in Dunedin, including: Shortsighted Girl’s Very Thick Wall (2017), Unacceptable Archaeologies (2011), Always there is something behind at Inge Doesburg, Dunedin (2010), and Blue Oyster Performance Series (2010). Recent group exhibitions include: Never an Answer – 12 Abstract Painters at The Vivian, Auckland, 2018, Forms of Perception at PG gallery 192, Christchurch, 2018, and Traces at Tacit Gallery, Hamilton, 2018, New Perspectives at Artspace Auckland (2016), (dis)placement at Fresh and Fruity Gallery Dunedin (2015), and iD2K16 at Blue Oyster (2015). Sound-wise, Kikkawa is a past resident of None Gallery and has played solo and in collaboration at The Audio Foundation Auckland, The Auricle Christchurch and regularly at various independent events such as Lines of Flight.