FABLES is an introductory lecture on the creative practice of French artist Chloé Quenum. Chloé Quenum has a particular interest in transmission media, such as textiles. To her, the textile is a living object and a testimony of cultural overlays and invasions, political and economic ambitions. “For example dye and tools can relate to the exchange of graphic systems and te...
Artist Yuka Oyama and curator Sian van Dyk discuss Oyama’s project Helpers - Changing Homes Creating an expansive multimedia project including wearable sculptures, performance, film, and jewellery works, WITH volunteer participants, ALL in three months AND on the other side of the world from home?! As current Te Whare Hēra international artist in residence Berlin-based artist Yuka Oyama h...
Helpers: Changing Homes is an expansive multimedia project developed through sculpture, performance, film, and jewellery works. During a three month residency at Te Whare Hēra artist Yuka Oyama has sought out project participants whose lives have been shaped by living in multiple countries, interviewing them about the objects they own which maintain a sense of ‘home’. Realising that as a...
What happens when you take footage of a performance or an event and start to edit it? Translation is a traitor and your friend was a two-day intensive workshop held by contemporary British artist Tom Dale. What is lost and gained by squeezing the world into the confines of a frame or laying it down on a time-line? At first ...
Tom Dale is a London-based artist whose grandiose sculptures, videos and installations explore the absurd and preposterous aspects of society. Dale works across a number of disciplines and defines himself simply as an artist who doesn’t paint. His large scale sculptures, digital images and films all play a part in a practice that is as reflective as it is re...
