LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK.

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK.
13-28 August 2010. ST PAUL St Gallery, AUT University.

Image courtesy of 'Blow' exhibition in the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK., aims to generate discussion, ideas, and directions for the three New Zealand Exhibitions: National, Student and Theatre Architecture, participating at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial: International Exhibition of Performance Design and Space, PQ11.

LIVE. REPEAT. PLAYBACK., a two-week programme of performance events, workshops, panel sessions, and exhibitions, will explore the emerging paradigms of performance in Aotearoa New Zealand; support the creation of innovative, experimental and unique performative works; develop collective expertise to contribute to, as well as respond to, the rapidly changing performing arts and creative industries..

The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) is the largest event of its kind in the world - presenting contemporary work in a variety of performance design disciplines and genres. Every four years, since 1967, the Prague Quadrennial has presented work from more then 70 countries, from five continents, in individual countries’ expositions in three competitive sections – the section of countries and regions, section of theatre architecture and student section.

http://www.pq.cz/en

PQNZ Team:
Commissioner: Sue Gallagher
National Exhibition Curators: Tracey Collins & Sue Gallagher
Student Exhibition Curator: Stuart Foster
Theatre Architecture Curator: Amanda Yates


NATIONAL EXHIBITION:
Live Archive

Live Archive will be a hybrid environment, an active space between a designer’s studio, a production studio, and an archive. The structure will be a flexible performance/production space where designers will be invited to work in the space and generate work in this live context. It will operate as an event space of various and simultaneous sequences of the design process, from pre- to post-production.
This (im)mobilising event will explore the evolving space and processes between visual arts, performance, theatre, architecture, film, and design practice, to ultimately expand our conception and scope of performance design. It is intended to excite new ideas and possibilities, new production processes, and to stimulate dialogue between New Zealand Designers, and also between New Zealand and International designers and audiences, at the world leading performance design event, the Prague Quadrennial 2011 (PQ11).

Selected Artists and Designers:
Chris Braddock
Daniel Belton
Dortia Hannah, Carol Brown & Russell Scoones
Phil Dadson
Sam Trubridge
Sue Gallagher & Nooroa Tapuni
Tony DeGoldi, Steve Gallagher & Jen Lal
Tracey Collins
Tracy Grant, David Eversfield & John Gibson.

Curators:
Tracey Collins
Sue Gallagher


THEATRE ARCHITECTURE: Performing Space In Oceania

In the Pacific, architecture is performative and responsive to the event while performance space is practised as a social field of interaction. Permeable or transient Oceanic architectures such as the fale (house), whare tapere (entertainment house) or hakari (feast stage) and enduring landscape constructions like the raised malae (meeting ground) perform temporal flow, enacting the passage of time through their ephemerality or endurance while enabling flows of people, weather, sounds and events. These open or multi-use structures become performance spaces when used as sites of discursive exchange: ‘theatre’ architecture in the Pacific then is formed as and through such social acts as meeting, feasting, and the rituals of encounter. Theatre architecture is framed here as an expansive condition that extends from the black box theatre to the social and performative space of the table, from a site-specific event to the meeting place of the marae.

Selected Designers:
Andrew Brettell. Futuna.
Charles Royal. Whare Tapere 2010.
Stephen Bain. Luminoceros and Baby.
Sam Trubridge. Sleep Wake & Performance Arcade.
Benita Kumar. Activating Va.
Yosop Ryoo. Being in Painful Circumstances.
Athfields, Jon Rennie and Paul Dibble. NZ Memorial in London.
Warren and Mahoney. Waikato Performing Arts Centre.
Athfields Architects. Porirua Performing Arts Centre.
Creative Spaces. Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre; Mangere Arts Centre, Te Puia.

Curator:
Amanda Yates


STUDENT EXHIBITION:
Material Remains

“ When a performance is over, what remains? The event scorches onto the memory an outline, a taste, a trace, a smell — a picture.”
                                                        ‘The Empty Space’, Peter Brook 1996

The material remains of the residue, trace or artifact can be considered to become the tangible memorial to the passing of an event. Through the performativity of objects, how can an event live on in these material remains, can they become event themselves, and how can then these traces of performance perform? It is proposed that material remains speak not only of the passing of event, rather become event themselves. These artifacts hold the potential to communicate, reveal, and reconstitute the ephemeral nature of performance, becoming their own performance.

Selected Students:
Amber Pearson
Anita Barry
Azadeh Emadi
Becca Wood
Emily Campbell & Zahra Killeen-Chance
Ian Hammond
Matt Gruiters
Max Thomas-Edmond
Sarah Burrell
Suzie Gorodi
Yosop Ryoo

Curators:
Stuart Foster
Sue Gallagher

Diana Burgoyne

Images courtesy of the artist- Diana Burgoyne

The LIVE.REPAT.PLAYBACK. program will also feature an Artist Talk and Performance by our CoLab Artist in Residence Diana Burgoyne alongside Two 'Creative Electronics' workshops with Diana Burgoyne and an exhibition of her collaborated work with New Zealand Artist Raewyn Turner in the Performance and Interactive Suite facilitated by CoLab (WT501) from 23rd August- 3rd September which is later moved to the Moving Image Center on K'rd, 3rd September- 9th October.