Current Work 2008 City Art Rooms, Auckland NZ

Rethinking the constraints of the banal 'new work' or 'recent work', Current Work develops a mise en scene in a suite of works 'still in the making'.  Deadline, an 800volt electric current dissects and connects the two galleries.   The live wire imposes an element of care and the need to genuflect before the large glass text I AM / MAI in one space and the registration plate, QR8, in the other.  Placeholders for characters in a production, the texts embody and critique the roles of author, artist, curator, viewer and gallery, within a landscape of concrete, magnetic and lawn painting.

Bibliography: Rankin Art New Zealand 128, Hanfling Art New Zealand 128, McNamara NZ Herald