The Art Precinct is alive with performance art this week thanks to the Living Room series. Living Room is an annual Auckland City Council public art event, and the focus of this year’s programme has been on collaborative partnerships between artists, choreographers and dancers.The 2010 series A Week of Goodness, curated by Pontus Kyander, celebrates the notion of giving and kindness on the streets of Auckland CBD.
Choreographer Sean Curham and the et al. collective have worked collaboratively on an interactive work one-to-many and many-to-one specifically for Khartoum Place.
The et al. collective represented New Zealand at the 2005 Venice Biennale with its critically acclaimed installation, the fundamental practice. Other works have addressed fundamentalist practices and ideological schemes and their impact on societies. In their installations, various practices run through and alongside one another. Scientific experiments, political ideologies, the classroom and the most extreme religious rituals are dismantled and exposed as mind-control mechanisms.
The artists' approach is to find fiction and appropriation to mirror these belief structures. One-to-many and many-to-one, the work included in Auckland City Council's Living Room 2010 will continue this process of exploring aspects of global society as conceptual and visual artworks. See more about the collective on their website.
Sean Curham has an ever changing practice. Movement and performance in the broadest sense continue to be of interest. Most recent works include Speedy legs, slow arms - speedy arms, slow legs (Glitch, AUT, Dec 2009), One - a season which Sean both curated and performed in ( Heritage Festival, Auckland, October 2009), and Four Legs Better Than Two a 'dog walking' art in community work created as an Otago University Fellow in 2009. This work will be represented in Sydney 2011.
Also in 2009 he presented Bedrock at the Art of Difference (Melbourne). He is also currently developing She's a sensation - a suite of new works to be staged in late 2010/2011 with the support of CNZ. (sourced Auckland City Council website)
Check out the Auckland City Council website for more information and pop down to the Precinct to experience one-to-many and many-to-one.
