The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero

On this episode, Jane speaks to James about his recent residency in Minnesota and attendance at the Indigenous Curatorial Collective in Saskatoon, and some highlights about this trip.

Artist Ilish Thomas joins Jane on this episode, ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at The Physics Room. Ilish talks through some of the points of reference for this new moving-image work which orbits The Crystal Palace Theatre in Maungawhau, Tāmaki Makaurau, and in her wider practice.

Curator James Tapsell-Kururangi talks to Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Aidan Taira Geraghty for our current exhibition 09 07 25. This episode is broadcast during Te Wiki o te reo Māori.

In this second Artist Documents episode, curator Jane Wallace speaks to Bootleg artist Tamsen Hopkinson. Tamsen talks about some of the things that influenced the installation Crimson and Clover in the exhibition, including the Tommy James song, a hole-punch, and silent letters.

This is the first of a mini-series called Artist Documents that we will be hosting on Contemporary Art Kōrero over the coming months. Artist Documents is a conversation with an artist from The Physics Room programming in which we speak about points of reference for their practice recently–maybe a place, a song, a particular material, a text, an object. In this episode, I speak to Abigail Aroha Jensen, currently exhibiting in the gallery with Tamsen Hopkinson as part of our current exhibition Bootleg, about some of the objects and ideas that informed her work for the show.