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One may imagine that like the world Alice found through the other side of the looking glass, the scene only appears to be our world and may in fact be some parallel universe full of alternatives to our own. The inversion of the image serves to remind us that this is in fact not so. It reminds me very much of the theories of Jean Baudrillard - that a total understanding of human existence down to the minutae of society is impossible because we have been seduced into a simulated hyperreality that has replaced reality. One might also make reference to the art of the panorama or cyclorama - the epic paintings of landscapes or historical events exhibited to give the illusion of reality in the days before the birth of cinema. This contraposition also serves to place some Joycean ironic distance between the audience and the desolation outside. Projected onto that wall, and incidentally alluding to the history of the pinhole camera and the camera obscure, is a fish-eye upside-down version of the same view in real time an X simulacra of Christchurch inverted as though reflected in a puddle, the sky transformed into a vast amniotic ocean.
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The Beehres have blocked out the space’s windows overlooking the ruins of Madras Street with a white wall.
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Waters Above Waters Below is a concept of haiku-like elegance and simplicity. They function as a single author like Gilbert and George, the Chapman Brothers, or Pierre et Gilles. It would be erroneous, however, and nigh on impossible to attribute specific aspects of the work to either one or the other. Aaron, currently a lecturer in Graphic Design at the University of Canterbury, contributes much of the slickness. Hannah, a BFA graduate from the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts in 2000 and an Olivia Spencer Bower Trust Award recipient in 2004, is the more traditional artist. Spouses Hannah and Aaron have been collaborating as a single unit for what must almost be a decade.
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Hannah and Aaron Beehre’s Waters Above Waters Below is the third instalment in Christchurch Art Gallery’s Creative New Zealand supported Rolling Maul project series (the others were by Julia Morison, and Georgie Hill with Zina Swanson) based above NG Gallery at 212 Madras Street, and part of the larger Outer Spaces programme to get art out into the city while CAG’s building is still closed after the quakes in 2010 and 2011. Where there ends and begins, uninhabitable, Not only in front of the impenetrable crystal Zingmagazine is affiliated with the Dikeou collection in Denver, a non-profit contemporary art collection started by Devon Dikeou and her brother Pany.CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU
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Contributors have appreciated the opportunity to create projects that they might not otherwise have the chance to create.īased in Manhattan's SoHo, the company also publishes books, CDs, posters, and other special projects determined only by the limits of its budget and its curators' imaginations.Īrtists previously featured in zingmagazine include Kenneth Goldsmith, Rainer Ganahl, Spencer Finch, Zac Posen, Robert Antoni, Uscha Pohl, the Royal Art Lodge and, solo, Marcel Dzama Zing has always offered redactional freedom: artists and curators are invited to submit what they choose with zing publishing the project as is. In issue 20, an ad for the magazine declared "zingmagazine: We come out when we come out." zing adheres to an irregular printing schedule, from less than once a year to as often as three times per year. Its curated projects have featured a variety of artistic mediums, including illustration, architecture, fashion, graphic design, music, painting, drawing, fiction, poetry, and critical reviews. Zing is now printed in color and has reached about 400 pages. Its first issue contained projects by Kenny Schachter, Gordon Tapper, Ed Web, Gregory Volk, Donald Fergusson, Michael Corris, Amy Sillman, and Susan Robinson, and ran about 100 pages. zing began as a quarterly, black-and-white magazine. Zingmagazine is a reverent contemporary art magazine founded in 1995 by artist Devon Dikeou.