Translucent Landscapes: A curatorial position

Thursday, June 23, 2011

A curatorial position - Hans-Michael Herzog

I was lucky enough hear curator Dr Hans-Michael Herzog late last year. These are some notes I made during his discussion and they are a guide to my approach to curating this.

The so called curator comes with this 'wonderful idea' [from the top] and imposes it on the work. I am interested in an inductive process that works from the art upwards.

Herzog was delightfully scathing about curators - saying the role of the curator had become crazy, with a huge inflation of the role. He also said a person of normal intelligence will leave [most] art related events after 15 minutes because the events are too silly - also damning the whole business of curators indulging in travel related talks, with these becoming the main focus of curator's working lives, rather than the art.

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Katherine Joyce-Kellaway

Katherine uses trans-media in her practice, with video as a central media which she uses to explore sensory behaviour and its influence on our perceptions of reality. Her current work is focused on how fragmented sensory stimulation can translate into embodied knowledge, producing a deluded reality. The works aspires to generate visceral, bodily and immersive experience for the viewer. Katherine is currently completing a Masters of Fine Art at Massey University in 2012, where she is also tutoring.

Tony Kellaway

Tony Kellaway has been a photographer concerned with the built environment for over thirty years.

Tony has undertaken a number of significant projects over his career including a survey of disappearing New Zealand cinema’s in the 1980’s. This was supported by a major Arts Council of New Zealand (CNZ) grant. He has received major commissions to record significant New Zealand sites such as Parliamentary buildings, Old Government buildings and the recently restored Old Supreme Court. These bodies of work recorded and interpreted the transformation of these sites.

Tony is well known for his definitive guide to the ‘Old Buildings of Wellington’ in collaboration with David Kernohan, Professor of Architecture at Victoria University.

His work is held in a number of major collections such as Te Papa and the National Library of New Zealand. His work is also in private collections both in New Zealand and Europe.