Samantha Mitchell, Spin for Success: A practical roadmap for those committed to a career in the arts, Single channel digital video, exercycle, arts sector funding application excerpts, 2023. Photo: Lindsey de Roos
Join us to celebrate the winding down of the Blue Oyster Artist Run Gym with a Closing Party! Including performances from Ōtepoti based muscian E-Kare and surprise guests!
This event is free to attend and all ages are welcome.
No registrations required.
Drinks and food provided.
E-Kare (founded in 2016, Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is a xMUSICxARTx collective. Our produce is whimsical and silly, we love gimmicks and impermanence. GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES GAMES I can't get these GAMES out of my head.
Samantha Mitchell is a Te Whanganui-a-Tara based interdisciplinary artist, gym instructor and entrepreneur. Her practice focuses on middle class aspirational exploits, bureaucratic systems and codified communication, expressing her enterprising aims through mimicry and satire in relational performance, video and print work. Constantly on the search for the next socially and financially lucrative business venture, she’s just a digital pack rat looking for a wealthy investor.
Harrison Freeth (Pākehā, Tongan, Sāmoan) searches through lines which connect genealogy, land, self and culture within a contemporary art context. Harrison is influenced by Moana philosophies of Tāvāism, pedagogies of play and existentialist philosophy. His work is a medley of stories, lessons and questions that intersect as a diary entry in which the medium of words is substituted for materials, form, motifs and mark making. Harrison is currently exhibiting in Canterbury Museum’s Shift exhibition and is in negotiation for a new exhibit in Anna-Marie’s parents’ garage.
Anna-Marie Mirfin is an artist based in Ōtepoti. She works across mediums including found materials, video and drawing. Recent exhibitions include Unformed Experience at New Lands Project Space and The Blue Oyster Artist Run Gym at Blue Oyster.
