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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Stay up late at City Gallery Wellington for our changing programme of art, music, film and talks.
Film Screening: Point and Line to Plane
7pm
Point and Line to Plane is a meditation on grief and magical thinking by Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz. A young woman extracts meaning from intense loss as she discovers signs and coincidences in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. The film includes footage shot in the famous Guggenheim exhibition, and a fantasy scene set inside af Klint’s ‘spiral temple’.
Panel Discussion - The Future of Monuments
6pm
In this lively and discursive session panellists including Mark Stocker, Diana Burton, Dr Jacky Bowring, Ellen Anderson and chair Giacomo Lichtner discuss possible futures for public monuments and memorials.
Today, many want to pull down memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. What memorials need to go what can stay? Are their 'good' memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' memorials? Is the form of the memorial itself now compromised? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? Do memorials have a role moving forward? What form could future memorials take?
Each panellist will present a short talk on a monument to preserve before collectively debating the wider implications of this topic. Chaired by Giacomo Lichtner.
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
Live Music - Jazmine Mary
8.45pm
To close the evening, be transported by the surreal rose-tinted sounds of Jazmine Mary, a Neo Folk Artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). Mary originally hails from Gippsland Australia and joins us with bandmates, Peter Ruddell (Wax Chattels, Sulfate) and Dave Kahn (Marlon Williams, Reb Fountain). Their debut Album The Licking of a Tangerine, was released in early 2021.
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Thursday 3 February, 5-10pm | $20 (includes exhibition entry)
5pm
Exhibitions open, supper and tunes from Radioactive DJ Miss Juliet.
6pm
The Future of Monuments panel discussion chaired by Giacomo Lichtner.
7pm
Point and Line to Plane screening.
7.30pm
Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, and Halina Dryschka Director of Beyond the Visible in conversation with Senior curator Aaron Lister
on Hilma af Klint.
Event Partners
Tuatara Open Late
Thursday 3 Feb, 5-10pm
$20 (includes exhibition entry)
“These beguiling, transportive songs will have me coming back to this album for a long time” - RNZ
A My Vaccine Pass will be required upon entry for those ages 12+ from Friday 3 December. Read our COVID-19 guidelines here.
In Conversation: Film Directors on Hilma af Klint
7.30pm
Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, and Halina Dryschka Director of Beyond the Visible join our Senior curator Aaron Lister to discuss bringing Hilma af Klint to screen. The Directors will be live via Zoom. Aaron Lister will be in the Adam auditorium with our audience. Together they will explore the complexities and joys of sharing the life and work of Hilma af Klint.
8.45pm
Live music from Neo-Folk artist, Jazmine Mary, who joins us their band from Tāmaki Makaurau