For Spaceships, James Robinson leaves his painting practice to investigate through sculptural processes, specifically model making in the Upper Gallery.
Past Exhibition
Tūrei 27 Māehe -
Hātarei 14 Āperira
Tuesday 27 March -
Saturday 14 April
2007
"It began as a reclamation of boyhood imaginary sci-fi spaceship building and turned into a psycho-sexual-anthropological-mytho-political smorgasbord of wanton regurgitated oil economy cultural filth. Seamlessly filling the void of the Catholic Church and compulsory armed service, a consumeristic tribal spell emerges. Low 'back of the y'meets 'Phillip K Dick', "Scientology" the Brother Quey and Thunderbirds. The installation will feature models and photos and some preliminary animation from the unedited film of which Creative NZ funded the project (amen).
Spaceships are vehicles of escape, of imagination, of owning the "space" in which we dwell, forever at war with some evil corruption of other's dominion. Art becomes the frontline of self in the world, and allows a play and piss-take in our technological cult of disembodiment and over-academic disempowering of art. It harkens instead of magic and tribalism more than sci-fi.
Presented alongside Charlotte Parallel Equipotential Bonding and Kirsten Perrett Warcraft
