TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE

06 March 2020

News

Reflections on 15 March The Christchurch-based human rights radio show/podcast Speak Up-Kōrerotia invites you to send in self-recorded audio reflecting on the anniversary of the 15 March 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, which will be compiled into a show. The show will air on Canterbury’s Plains FM 96.9 at 6pm on 15 March 2020 and then be available online as a podcast via http://www.plainsfm.org.nz/Prog/SpeakUpKorerotia. For more information, see https://www.facebook.com/events/235573317449045/.

UC Arts at the Arts Centre Erskine fellow, Sophie Grace Chappell presented to an attentive audience for the first of the An Evening With series for 2020. Her talk was on ethics, epiphany and climate change; an interesting and robust discussion followed. The Arts Centre’s Creative Residency programme is up and running now for the first time since pre-earthquakes! It would be fantastic to share this with any creatives you think may be interested in the opportunity, and of course encourage your own students and graduates to apply. The details of the residency can be found online here.

School of Music

Senior Lecturer of Music Performance, Justin DeHart, celebrates his 100th commercial recording this year with a new release on Bridge Records featuring the works of award-winning Cambodian composer, Chinary Ung. Justin joined a small group of musicians who performed and recorded the music for the double-disc album in San Diego, California in late 2017 to mark the composer’s 75th birthday. “Chinary’s percussion parts often involve

huge setups of instruments which really test the ability of performers. Not only does he want one of us to play the music that really should be split for two players, but he also asks that we sing at the same time, knowing perfectly well that he will get a raw and untrained vocal sound.” Justin has at least three more full-length albums planned for release this year in addition to commencing recording for a new solo album of percussion music made by New Zealand composers. On Monday night for New Music Central, Head of New Music, Reuben de Lautour presented a programme of electroacoustic music by New Zealand composers. The programme started with a word by Douglas Lilburn and moved through to current composers working in this style. Upcoming events:

• Friday Lunchtime Concert – Friday 6 March, 1.10pm: Summer clouds passing – music from UC’s advanced students

– Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location

• New Music Central – Monday 9 March, 7.00pm: Kerian Varaine (NZ) – Venue: Recital Room, UC Arts City Location

• Public talk – Tuesday 10 March, 7.00pm: New Zealand Saves Musical Lives!

– Venue: Camerata Room, UC Arts City Location In the last five years Invercargill in New Zealand’s Southland has been the site of an experiment in what is called Outreach Singing. This social-altruistic approach prioritises singing as a ‘psychological imperative’ (Buller Peters, 2004), and a form of ‘social glue’ (Spychiger, 2001), and is based on over 20 years of research and development in Canberra, Australia. The New Zealand programme can justly claim a unique status in the speed and success of uptake of the programme, as well as the thoughtful and intelligent way in which musicians and non-musicians alike have responded to the challenges the programme presents.

Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities

New interns Michael Kingsley and Sam Neill have started their semester one projects with the Teece Museum. Michael will be completing the cataloguing project on the Classics glass plate lantern slide collection, while Sam is researching the provenance and context of a collection of 12 Roman Judaean coins recently donated to the Logie Collection, with a view to producing an online resource for schools. Along the way, Sam and Michael will also be assisting with Museum day to day operations, and gaining general experience in the heritage sector.

The inaugural session of Coffee and Classics was enjoyed by all. Students and members of PhiloLogie heard postgrad student Roswyn Wiltshire discuss her research into the Roman glass collection from Canterbury Museum, and had the opportunity to see examples of Roman glass from the Logie Collection up close. In April, the next session of Coffee and Classics will focus on a Roman head of Hadrian, currently on loan to the Teece Museum from the private collection of Doug Gold.

Upcoming events:

• Holding Fast: conservation of the Logie Collection – Thursday 19 March, 6.00pm – Venue: Teece Museum, UC Arts City Location

Holding fast: conservation of the Logie Collection and new research into mounts for museum exhibitions In this short-format public talk conservators Emily Fryer and Neeha Velagapudi (Canterbury Museum) will discuss the conservation of the Logie Collection after the Christchurch earthquakes, and explain their new research into the use of adhesive mounts for museum exhibitions. Emily Fryer has a Masters degree in the Conservation of Historic Objects from Durham University and over 17 years' practical experience in treating a wide range of three-dimensional objects. She has worked as a conservator for Bristol City Museum, the Tate Gallery in London and the Antarctic Heritage Trust in Antarctica. She has worked privately since 2007 in Christchurch for a wide range of institutions and private individuals and is currently contracted to Canterbury Museum part time to work on objects for their upcoming book. Neeha Velagapudi graduated with a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation from the University of Melbourne and went on to gain experience at a variety of institutions in Australia. She completed some short-term assignments with the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and was involved with the relocation of the Freemasons Victoria museum collection. She held the role of junior objects conservator with Emily Fryer Conservation for two years and is currently a Collections Technician Human History at Canterbury Museum. FREE entry, but seats are limited so PLEASE register to attend.

Classics

Patrick O’Sullivan, Visiting Fellow at University College, Oxford, gave an invited research seminar entitled ‘War Music: Rhetoric, Poetics and Pindar’s Pythian 1’ on Thursday 27 February to members of the Classics Faculty and University College, Oxford.

History

The History department sends its congratulations to former student Maree Shirota who recently passed the oral examination for her PhD at the University of Heidelberg. Maree has also edited a new collection of essays, which is published open access: Stefan Holz, Jörg Peltzer, and Maree Shirota (ed.), The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages: Form and Content (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019). It includes Maree’s own essay, “Neither Roll nor Codex: Accordion Genealogies of the Kings of England from the Fifteenth Century”.

School of Fine Arts

Congrats to Ilam's senior lecturer in Sculpture, Louise Palmer, who has won the 2020 Grace Butler residency consisting of a three month residency, inclusive of a $20,000 grant and studio at Ara School of Art and Design!

More details here: https://gracebutleraward.org.nz/

Image: Louise Palmer, 90 Canon (living room), 2016, site-specific installation in artist’s house

Steve Carr has an artist talk for the closing of his exhibition at City Gallery. The talk will be at 2pm in Wellington on March 14th

https://citygallery.org.nz/events/steve-carr-artist-talk/

The screening of his film Watermelon will begin (see details below) as part of the Te Papa Festival of Arts

Into The Open (Week Three)

After dark, the Wellington waterfront lights up with an array of moving-image artworks. Presented by New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Te Papa.

• When | Āhea Mon 9 Mar – Wed 11 Mar 2020, 8.15pm–10.45pm Thu 12 Mar – Sat 14 Mar 2020, 8.15pm–12.00am

• Where | Ki hea Wellington waterfront

• Cost | Te utu Free event

TSB Arena

Steve Carr, Watermelon, 2015

Like many of Steve Carr’s artworks, Watermelon takes a seemingly benign scenario and turns into a source of humour and fixation as the film crescendos to an excruciating finale.

Throughout its half-hour duration, we watch as two pairs of hands stretch rubber bands over a watermelon. As the number of bands increases, the watermelon begins to bulge. By the end of the film, each new rubber band has us wincing in anticipation of its juicy end.

Watermelon is cool and exacting, doling out measures of control and release in a way that seems to suspend our perception of time.

There is also a super interesting audio description of the work that has been created for the blind and visually impaired that people might find interesting:

https://soundcloud.com/te_papa/audio-description-steve-carr

Steve Carr is also in this exhibition at the DPAG. Additions + Alterations presents new work by Wellington-based artist Emily Hartley-Skudder, alongside a selection of works from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s contemporary collection. Emily graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 2012.

https://dunedin.art.museum/exhibitions/present/additions-alterations/

Global Language and Cultural Studies

EUROCALL webinar Dear colleagues, Toni Patton is inviting you to a zoom webinar organised by EUROCALL Association CMC and MALL SIGs. The webinar will be moderated by Vera Leier. Topic: Disruptive technologies and the language classroom: a complex systems theory approach Presenter: Regine Hampel Time: Mar 6, 2020 06:00 PM London Please use the link below to join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/382026252?pwd=YWZSRmtQN0Uwalc0YTBLU0JhN1E2UT09 Meeting ID: 382 026 252

Media and Communications

GIVING A VOICE TO THE VOICELESS: NARRATIVEDOCUMENTARYSTORYTELLINGWITHSURVIVORSAND

PERPETRATORSOFSEXUALVIOLENCEINTHEDEMOCRATICREPUBLICOFCONGO

MONDAY,9MARCH,12-1PMGEOG406

Filmmaker:FionaLloyd-Davies

“Throughmyfilmsandimages,Itrytogiveavoicetothosewhofrequentlygounheardbutwhoshowusthe

powerofresilienceandthehumanspiritatitsbest,havingenduredtheworst.“

Making documentary films with survivors and perpetrators of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo involves highly complex, sometimes dangerous and always intensely challenging situations. How is it possible to find and identify survivors when there is no coherent system for recording cases of sexual violence? Why should perpetrators be given a voice when they may have committed war crimes and what risks are there of retraumatising survivors when filming their interviews? Drawing on 25 years of experience, starting in Bosnia during the war when interviewing survivors of rape who pioneered and changed the face of war crimes prosecutions, Fiona Lloyd-Davies will examine these issues and more using clips from her work spanning a quarter of a century. Clips from the following films will be shown:TheUnforgiving1993;

UndertheShadow2016;TheFighterandthePimp2020 Note: Video clips of testimony on sexual violence will be shown that some people may find disturbing.

Political Science and International Relations

Institute and Research Centre News

National Centre for Research on Europe

Today, Friday 6th March the second talk in our diplomatic seminar series will be held at 2pm in the newly refurbished NCRE seminar room on Level 6 Logie. This week’s speaker is the Italian Ambassador H.E. Fabrizio Marcelli and he will speak on the role of Italy in the EU27, EU-NZ relations as well as Italy’s role in international affairs.

The first talk in the diplomatic series was given on Friday 28th February Head of the EU Delegation in Wellington – Ambassador Nina Obermaier. An audience of more than 30 staff, students and the general public heard the Ambassador outline the new European Commission’s agenda priorities for the next 5-years and respond to a lively Q&A session. The video of the seminar will be posted online early next week (https://jeanmonnet.nz/).

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