Visual Arts RELAY at Te Uru Gallery
RELAY, a multi-disciplinary, durational exhibition at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, opens Saturday 17 August.
RELAY was developed by Toi Ataata Visual Arts students from Auckland University of Technology. Over four weeks, the gallery will operate as a collaborative installation in which projects are created, displayed and enacted.
The projects take various forms, including painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, moving image, and performance. The title ‘RELAY’ references the dynamic structure of the exhibition. Like a relay race, it is divided into four week-long legs. Each Friday, the ‘baton’ is passed on, and some projects come in and out, re-placing or re-orienting the installation. Live activations also occur throughout the exhibition, with the artists making and performing in the space, responding to notions of accumulation, compilation and trace.
There are 31 contributing artists and collaborators in RELAY from AUT Visual Arts, including final year BVA, Masters, PhD students, and Toi Ataata lecturers, including:
A’aifou Potemani, Amy Potenger, Ana Ter Huurne, Anna Finlayson, Beth Dawson, Cath Thomson, Elisha Oloapu, Emma Beth, Ethan Morais, Greg Thomas, Hana Carpenter, Harriet Graham, Ingrid Boberg, Jeorja Duffy, Joshua Whitaker, Keani Rewha, Margo Dolgova, Mereem Dewerse, Mia Foulds, Monique Redmond, Natasha Munro Hurn, Ngahina Belton-Bodsworth, Nikita Hesketh, Rebecca Lees, Rita Takeuchi, Samantha Cheng, Stella Roper, Te Ra Awatea Kemp, Tess Elliott, Yuji Iwase, Ziggy Lever.
The four week long exhibition opens Saturday 17 August with an opening event from 4 – 6 pm