LATE: From a Ripple to a Swell with Oliver Driver & Guests

Auckland Museum comes alive on the first Thursday evening of each month with the popular series, LATE at the Museum. Last year's LATE season welcomed a year-long investigation into the theme of innovation – featuring panel discussions with this country’s leading innovators and music by our top performers. This year’s season of LATE at the Museum sees us respond to topical issues and collection and exhibition themes.

Smart Talk
In association with The University of Auckland this LATE looks at the importance of New Zealand’s waterways and how we can raise awareness over the value of this vital natural resource.

Moderator Oliver Driver will lead a panel of academic experts who include ecologist Dr Marjorie van Roon, dance studies lecturer and writer Dr Alys Longley and marine scientist Professor John Montgomery. They will discuss issues around water sustainability and the different approaches being used to celebrate water and inspire change. This LATE has been created to complement the Aqua experience – tickets will be available for evening shows.

Great music: sound and art
From the tiniest watery disturbances that indicate the ghostly presence of taniwha, to the great oceans that facilitate the global movements of international commerce through cargo, and back to the kitchen sink reality of coffee and kettles, water can mean many things to artists and musicians. Artists from The University of Auckland’s National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries who work in sound, music, electroacoustics, art and installation will explore liquid visions through a range of performances and presentations spread throughout the museum’s spaces.

Performers include:

Gavin Hipkins
Opening the night will be DJ Gavin Hipkins, Head of Undergraduate Studies at Elam School of Fine Arts. Gavin is better known for his epic photographic series such as The Homely and The Colony, and more recently his combination of photographic processes with found objects and images. His first short film is currently screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival.

Joyce Campbell
Joyce Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist, and a lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts. Joyce has a great affinity for water and the natural environment. In 2006 Joyce visited the Ross Sea as part of Creative New Zealand’s Artists to Antarctica programme. Inspired by her visit, Joyce created the Last Light series of photographs.

In this LATE floor talk, Joyce will discuss her latest work Te Taniwha - an ongoing project, drawing on the mythology, history and ecology of Waikaremoana and its many tributaries and outlets. It traces the search for two great, serpentine water species: the taniwha and the giant longfin eel.

Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan, is Director of the New Pacific Music Ensemble (NPME), and co-founder of the improvised music community VitaminS. Andrew has produced sound design for theatre and played with many local and international luminaries, including Richard Nunns and Marilyn Crispell. He is currently studying composition at The University of Auckland’s School of Music.

Greg Malcolm
Special guest Greg Malcolm is a creator of customised multi-guitar performances. He has toured extensively throughout New Zealand and abroad, performing in galleries and festivals in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia and England.

Ivan Mršić
Ivan is a Croatian sound artist who also works in video and painting. He performs with sound sculptures, including modified kitchen sinks and buckets. Ivan is currently studying towards a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, and provided sound for et al.’s recent exhibition at Michael Lett gallery

Entry via Atrium. Tickets to Aqua will be available on the evening. $15 per adult, $12 concession.

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