Relational aesthetics

A staff member of the Mori Art Gallery in Tokyo uses a roller on a stick to remove lint from audience seating in an installation for the exhibition Roppongi crossing.

Piece of string

American artist Ida Applebroog asks the big questions at Documenta (13)

Saturday is pay day… is everybody happy?

Saturday stretching out in front of you like a desert wasteland? Bring a little light into your life and step up into OTN’s weekend cultural cavalcade Seriously it's Saturday.

10am – 2pm: Make own arrangements.

2pm: Listen to photographer Peter Peryer in conversation at the Hamish McKay Gallery.

3.30pm – 4pm: coffee and rest period. 

4pm - later: Sign up for The Estate of l. budd Benefit Table Tennis Tournament at On The Table. Trophies and OTN merchandise to be won.

On The Table (a division of Over The Net) is at 6 College Street, just down the road from L’Affare (see coffee above).

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A reflective post on table tennis

From the Relational Aesthetics adviser to the Ping Pong heads of Europe, Rirkrit Tiravanija's Untitled (The Future will be Chrome) 2008. Thanks again P, thanks again.

Factory outlet

The International Arts Festival in Wellington largely ignores the visual arts so it’s good to see the St Petersburg group Factory of Found Clothing doing a series of work in conjunction with the Auckland Festival as well as a residency at Unitec. There’s an interview with the two artists "Gliukla" (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya) and "Tsaplya" (Olga Yegorova) here. It’s relational aesthetics meets et al. with a touch of city-envy. FFC is from St Petersburg which is to Moscow what Wellington is to Auckland. “In Moscow there are ‘rosy-cheeked gymnasium girls’. The Petersburg Gymnasium Girl is sad; she drinks vinegar to make her cheeks pale and her skin limpid." You can check out their Auckland programme here.
Images: Left, Gliukla and right, Tsaplya