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work and not work / one and other

NEW FILMS BY SEAN GRATTAN AND ANDREW DE FREITAS
PREMIER SCREENING / A TEMPORARY CINEMA OCCASION
8PM THURSDAY 20TH NOVEMBER, DRINKS AVAILABLE FROM 7:30PM
$5 ENTRY, ALL WELCOME, 212 UPPER SYMONDS STREET, BEHIND FRENCH CAFE

www.9d.co.nz

9D announces the opening of their exhibition on the 7th of November at 6pm, at the St Pauls Street Gallery 3, 39 Symonds Street, Auckland CBD.

.beat

‘BEAT is a collaborative work by Olive Barrett and Louise Marlborough

"The mundane repetition, the frustration and anxiety that individuals experience on a daily basis is echoed in our piece. Technology (TV, gaming, internet, music etc.) in all its forms can be a means of escapism from the everyday and our piece incorporates some of these technologies. However, connecting with technology seems to isolate and disconnect individuals from each other even more and leaves us detached and vacant."

Olive Barrett was born in 1975 in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. After completing a Fetac in Art and Design she went on to study at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She graduated in 1998 with a BA in textile Design. In 2005 she returned to The National College of Art and Design to complete a Higher Diploma in Art and design Education.
Barrett has combined her talents in many areas and works in media including painting, textiles d moving image. Over a 14 year period Barrett has exhibited both nationally and ternationally including solo shows, selected group exhibitions and public art projects. Last year she received a commendation for her part in the Jameson Film Festival (trailer competition).


Louise Marlborough was born in Dublin in 1976. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with an Honours Degree in Fine Art, Sculpture. In 2000 she completed a Certificate in Professional Photographic Practice at the London College of Printing.
In 1999 Marlborough was granted two awards from the Arts Council in Ireland. One was an equipment award and the other was a travel award which allowed her to travel to the US and undertake and complete a photographic project. Marlborough has exhibited for over ten years now and includes solo shows, a two-person show and an array of selected group exhibitions.

jol thomson

Jol Thomson is an artist and musician living and working in Toronto, Canada.
He works with audio, video, and in live performance integrating one or both of these elements.
Here rectangleBox presents 3 recent video works:

-No pronoun-

As an investigation of my self, is meant to be a sort of self portrait;
an attempt at extending internal life and conflicts onto a video screen.
Various conflicts are presented formally: the juxtaposition between analogue video format and the new digital format creates a tension between the text and the imagery.
A diatribe on the lack of connectedness among the ‘us’, the ‘our’, the ‘we’.

-FLASHBACK-

A structuralist video - the sound and abstraction that is personal memory.
The video illuminates its own medium both instrumentally and philosophically, showing how memory is an abstraction and how we remember things incorrectly.

-Untitled(butcher)-

(In Collaboration with danielle Williams)
Exploring the layers of linguistic complexity involved in the mere act of trying to communicate. . . arbitrary definitions become a filter that both provide and prevent access to meaning.

-Jol Thomson 2008

To hear music, visit Jol’s audio project Ultragalapogous, on myspace HERE*

over water upon

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a video narrative by andrew de freitas

44mins, italian with english subtitles, 2007.

see drawings here

Teva Chonon

Pouf!

Pouf! is one in a series of four video installations by Auckland artist Teva Chonon.

‘This work embraces the mundane, as it forms itself through a repetitive action. At the same time the video uncovers a seductive quality that draws the viewer into this surrealistic environment. A certain playfulness is established in these oppositions- against the structure of the video picture. A conflicting sense of enchantment and disenchantment with reality is surfacing.’

Teva Chonon, 2008

Jacob Milne

'Painted Kingdom'

/ourports

andrew de freitas
looped video, 2007
4min 40sec

/yellow

new video work from Sean Grattan;

also check out sean's;
mintchicks music video









yellow 2007 (filmstill)

many thanks to JB HiFi for providing a dvd player

/taarati Taiaroa-Smithies

.recipe.piece

the wind in the sails of this online vessel is the hope that you will respond in some way, make the food, eat the food, delicious. Good for you and easy. There are no risks of breach of copyright, as this recipe was developed independently and with love, taking inspiration from a granola stall at a Toronto farmers market. Whats more is it is only sweetened by the fruit inside it, and involves no flour or dairy- the bananas bind the show together. It uses only common ingredients, and allows plenty of room for improvisation. If you like it sweet- go liberal on the dried fruit.
Furthermore, you can think of it as a snack to enjoy while the rectangle (as it exists in box form) changes contents. for everybody:

2 cups of whole oats
3 bananas
1/4-1/3 cup olive or vegetable oil (more if you feel frivolous)
cinnamon, nutmeg, or mixed spice
pinch or two of salt
generous amount of generous dried fruit. don't use any selfish raisins
nuts and/or seeds, the same deal
(The pictured cookies use dates, sunflower seeds, chopped almonds, linseed, raisins, chopped dried apricots, but go fruity slash go nuts and use whatever you like)


Add a dash of water to the oats and stir while you wait for the oven to heat up to 190 degrees celcius.

Mash the ripe bananas, then add the rest and stir. Use a spoon or fingers to dollop them into a tray, or baking paper, then make sure they look in cookie shape as they wont melt flat like regular non-extraordinary cookies with no self esteem do. These guys will hold strong. kia kaha.

Bake for 20-25 mins. use the comments feature below, and hit back if you are generous enough to share another recipe project of your own. any improvements to suggest, do the same. good luck

TerenceTsang;Peap;PaulShih/

terence, peap, and paul. they may sound like the names you would give to your three budgies, but these guys are human and very talented. Probably just as good a friends as the birds would be, living in a cage and all;




\followthese links to the artists websites(p.s they are great ones):
PEAP
TERENCE
PAUL

Tamsen Hopkinson

.ACCOMPANYING TEXT: story by andrew de freitas #

(click above link)

Ralph Matthews

VIDEO TEASER

I know you all have been looking, there are marks on the glass in front of the peep holes. Just a tip: with freshly equipped new lights, you should have no problems visiting the rectangleBox at night time, to have a wee peep whilst no ones around.

This one you gotta see in the real- enjoy.

.bold brothers of old

whoah-oh stronghold

bold brother of old

won't you show me how you grow

work by andrew de Freitas
A tribute to the Forests, Mountains, and Sea

see acoustic valleys

thereading room.

reading rooms are always fascinating.
I imagine such rooms to exist with maybe one or two windows, not like the new glass box public libraries which we now see, maybe more like an office, only attached to a house. But the window of a reading room is reduced to an image. Inside the room, the window does signify the outside, but it is always an entrance to the outside. For the occupant of the room it is no more a way of passage than each of the books in the room, each extracted sentence in the book, each extracted word in the sentence, the spacing between each utterance, or the spacing that the reader adds theirself upon reading.

An imagining of reading room for me somehow always includes a chair. I have always found this disappointing, perhaps only for my own restlessness. The reader almost always sits.

RectangleBox window looks into the reading room.

work by andrew de freitas

BIKES FOR GHANA

THANK YOU to everybody who made it to B.F.G number one. It really was a great ride. We managed to raise $500 dollars for Unicef, which is enough to buy 12 (and a half) bicycles for Ghanian girls!

We will definately be doing this again-

look out for a bike from now on if you dont have one, so that we can all be there next time. Plus you could help the planet to stay cool and that.... Please, if you have any feedback, bad or good are both helpful, let us know in the comments below OK? enjoy all of your bicycles and treat them as you would yourself.

here are some pictures