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Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
Stay up late with City Gallery Wellington and enjoy our changing programme of art, music, film, and talks. On the first Thursday of every month.
Odd Shot Polaroids: Look Again
Drop-in
Glen Hayward’s artworks ask us to consider the everyday in a new perspective, to look again at the familiar or peripheral. They often challenge us to trust in or doubt the validity of the object and experiences we encounter. See the exhibition through fresh eyes by borrowing a polaroid camera to capture a moment of everyday mysticism.
Art Encounter: Enter the Matrix
6pm
Join us for an extended look at Glen Hayward’s I don’t want you to worry about me, I have met some Beautiful People with film scholar Russ Kale, who will decode the layered connections it has with its source in The Matrix and explore this work as part of Glen’s wider practice.
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?
Everyday Mysticism: Artists Respond
8pm
Sculptor Glen Hayward’s practice brings the everyday into the gallery in profound and absurd ways. Reconsidering familiar objects is a concern shared by other artists. Join us as they discuss their practices and why they find commonplace objects compelling.
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Thursday 1 September, 5-10pm | Koha
5pm
Exhibitions open
6pm
Art Encounter: Enter the Matrix
Drop-in
Odd Shot Polaroids: Look Again
7pm
Poets Respond: Profound and Absurd
Event Partners
Tuatara Open Late
Thurs 1 Sept, 5-10pm
Koha
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Poets Respond: Profound and Absurd
7pm
Glen Hayward’s artworks snare the viewer in a standoff around what is real or illusionary, art or not art, profound or absurd. Local poets respond to Wish You Were Here to capture the forms, stories and ideas of Glen Hayward’s sculptures in words.
Poets Respond is brought to you by Jay Nieuwland and Nat-Lîm Kado.
As always, our bar and galleries open at 5pm. There will be Tuatara beers, Seresin Estate wine, supper treats and sounds from RadioActive.
Urn (Live)
9pm
Sonic artists Thomas Carroll (Ngati Maru, Hauraki) and Rob Tyler respond to the themes of Matarau. Fusing taonga pūoro and modular synthesis, they incorporate rongoā plants as a modulation source, to create works inspired by Māori philosophy, cosmology and experimental noise music.
Book Club Redux: A conversation with Glen Hayward
8pm
IMAGE Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi 2022. Photo Elias Rodriguez.
IMAGE City Gallery Wellington, 2022. Photo: Elias Rodriquez
IMAGE Glen Hayward MOMA 2022, wood and paint. Photo: Cheska Brown
IMAGE City Gallery Wellington, 2022. Photo: Elias Rodriquez
Book Club Redux: A Conversation with
Glen Hayward
8pm
In this redux edition of City Gallery Book Club, author and regular Book Club convenor Pip Adam will be joined by exhibiting artist Glen Hayward. Take a seat and join the conversation as we read our way into the themes and ideas in Glen Hayward’s Wish You Were Here. It’ll be a chance to get to know what’s on Glen’s own bookshelves, his literary influences, and to hear the stories behind his artworks.
Image: Me and You Copy Paste, 2022. Courtesy of the artists.