DUIRVIAS contains works derived from transmissions received in the presence of two memorials in Tāmaki Makaurau dedicated to those who passed of AIDS-related illnesses: Memorial Tree and The Circle of Friends.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 21 Hūrae -
Rātapu 16 Ākuhata
Tuesday 21 July -
Sunday 16 August
2020
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Blue Oyster Art Project Space is pleased to present DUIRVIAS, a showing of new works by Laura Duffy and Owen Connors, with writing by Frances Duncan.
DUIRVIAS is accompanied by 'I will leave you all my body' an online text by Frances Duncan which you can visit & read here.
Opening event: Tuesday 21 July 5:30pm
Free to attend, all welcome.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation Detail, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Duir Cycle, Hand dyed quilted cotton, approx.1100 x 1400mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation Detail, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Duir Cycle, Hand dyed quilted cotton, approx.1100 x 1400mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Prospect, coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Snowballing, coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Mary, Coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, John, Coloured pencil on paper, 345x395mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation Detail, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Duir Cycle, Hand dyed quilted cotton, approx.1100 x 1400mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation Detail, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Duir Cycle, Hand dyed quilted cotton, approx.1100 x 1400mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Prospect, coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Snowballing, coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, Mary, Coloured pencil on paper, 650 x 345mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, On the Origin of the World, Coloured pencil on paper, three panels, each panel 205 x 180mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors, John, Coloured pencil on paper, 345x395mm, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Owen Connors & Laura Duffy, DUIRVIAS, Installation View, 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
Image: Laura Duffy, The Warm Illumination of a Horizon, digital video (still), 2020. Photo: Jonas Jessen Hansen.
The Memorial Tree , located on Constitution Hill, is an Pedunculate Oak planted in May 1991 by Auckland Community AIDS Services. It is accompanied by a plaque that reads ‘REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE DIED OF AIDS’.
The Circle of Friends , located in Western Springs Park, is a stone memorial engraved with the names of some of those who have died from AIDS in New Zealand along with others who are living with HIV/AIDS, as well as partners, families and friends of those infected, regardless of whether they have the virus or not.
Owen Connors was the Blue Oyster Art Project Space Caselberg Trust Summer Resident for 2020. Thank you to the Caselberg Trust for their support of this project.
Owen Connors
Owen Connors is an artist and writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Recent exhibitions include SISSYMANCY!, PlayStation Gallery, Pōneke, 2019; Fool for a World That Will End (with Daniel John Corbett Sanders), Mother? Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2019 and Crudo of Perilous Might, MEANWHILE, Pōneke, 2018.
Laura Duffy
Laura Duffy is a video artist and curator born in Tairawhiti based in Pōneke. Recent exhibitions include; Thinking about thinking about the future, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery, 2020. Club 290, PlayStation, Pōneke, 2020. Laura Duffy has contributed to projects at; MEANWHILE, Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, RM Gallery, The Engine Room.
Frances Duncan
Frances Duncan (FKA Claire Duncan) is an interdisciplinary artist from Aotearoa.
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