Adam Art Gallery Public Programme August-October

Adam Art Gallery Public Programme August-October 2010

WORKSHOP
For the Record

Join Roger Shepherd founder of Flying Nun Records, Annabel Youens and Jeff Mitchell from MusicHype, and music writer Simon Sweetman along with other Wellington-based independent music agents in a discussion on the future of music distribution, particularly in relation to the possibilities of the online environment. This event will workshop ideas and provide practical tools to consider the role of the record label now.

Chaired by Mark Williams, independent curator and musician. In collaboration with Victoria Student Media.
Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade. Next to the Student Union Building
Wednesday 1 September 2010
6-8pm. Refreshments provided.

Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction
Fitts & Holderness
DJ $1 Record (aka Bryce Galloway)
Caroline Johnston
Torben Tilly & Robin Watkins
Ronnie van Hout
Curated by Laura Preston & Mark Williams
The Otolith Group: A Long Time Between Suns

7 August–10 October 2010
www.adamartgallery.org.nz

The record is a dissemination device and a visual object, a record of the event in time and a commodification of a moment in history—Bruce Russell

Object Lessons: A Musical Fiction is an exhibition project that investigates the visual forms of music as a way to address issues of documentation and distribution in the wake of the digital download. Explicitly focusing on independent music production as a site where the social, economic and political effects of recording are re-negotiated, the exhibition has invited artists eager to work outside “the system” and usually “off the record” to present projects that meditate on the “impending tsunami” of the digital download and the modalities of communication within which music now circulates.

Object Lessons is the second project to be curated for the Adam Art Gallery’s Sound Check research initiative that explores the intersections between music and the visual arts. It is accompanied by a public programme of talks, workshops and performances: http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/calendar/
Coming up next: Film screening of New York Conversations at the Mighty Mighty, Cuba Street. Wednesday 8 September 2010, 7pm

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