Gambia Castle is pleased to present:

Working on Talking

RUTH BUCHANAN, KATE NEWBY & FRANCES STARK

Opening: Thursday 6 December at 6pm

And for one day only on Friday 7 December from 12 - 6PM

“Some things are weak and some things are strong,” she said.
“ I never realised you wrote poetry as well,” he said.
“Things can change,” she said, “it could be better to do this alone.”
“I have a proposal,” he said, “yes, it’s better this way.”
“I notice everything, all things.”

For the night of the 6th and day of the 7th of December 2007, Gambia Castle will present Working On Talking - a collection of work by Ruth Buchanan, Kate Newby and Frances Stark. Working on Talking explores a shared interest in developing potential places of display for the gestural power of voice - creating a conversation where the works speak, or choose not to. The project seeks to facilitate a situation where one wonders what it is, or what it might be, to meet meaning both as a producer and an audience.

Ruth Buchanan (NZ, Te Ati Awa/Taranaki) is an artist currently based in The Netherlands. In her recent work she seeks to address how artistic agency in the present is characterised by artistic legacy and chooses to do so by working across several mediums; video, text, 35 mm slide and sculpture. Buchanan graduated with her MA (Fine Art) from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam this July with the exhibition Knowing Nothing of Agility at TENT, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Following this she was the summer resident at Lothringer13/laden, Munich that culminated in the solo exhibition Open In Total Darkness. In January 2008 she will begin the one-year project Watch the object watching as a Fine Arts Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. She has exhibited in New Zealand, the USA and Europe as well as working on, intitating and contributing to several publications and print-based projects.

Kate Newby (NZ) is an Auckland-based artist whose practice explores ideas of site, architecture and public space. Placing emphasis on ‘doing’, her work often blurs and reconfigures the distinctions between making, performativity, documentation and presentation. Newby has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in New Zealand and abroad. She completed the Masters Programme at Elam School of Fine Arts in 2007, with the project My Poetry, for example. Recent exhibitions include: A Windy Fire, at teTuhi, Auckland; On the Benefits of Building at Gambia Castle, Auckland; Moment Making, Artspace, Auckland. In 2006 Newby exhibited in Silver Clouds, a project curated by Cuckoo in Melbourne, Australia, and in 2004 she participated in Remember New Zealand at 26th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil and facilitated a series of site-specific urban projects, Very Interesting, Very International, in public sites in Europe and the USA. Newby actively publishes and contributes to artist’s books.

Frances Stark (USA) is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Stark’s work has consistently grappled with an ethics of both address and production. She interweaves personal negotiations into her questions around how to speak as an artist and what constitutes the gesture of making. Working initially as a writer, even her drawings make use of the slow and unfolding time of readership. Stark’s work convincingly opens up her negotiations with her influences and forebears, getting to a space of liberation rather than constriction. Stark is a lecturer at USC in L.A. She has exhibited extensively throughout both the US and Europe. Recent solo projects include, The Fall of Frances Stark, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2007), Francis Stark: Structures that Fit my Opening, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2006), Bless This Mess, greengrassi, London (2004), 
Destroy Date, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
 (2004) And Another One at the Same Time, Gallery, Paula Anglim, San Francisco and I.C.A., London (2004), for nobody knows himself if he is only himself and not another at the same time, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles (2004), ICH SUCHE NACH MEINE FRANCES STARKE SEITE, 
Kunstverein Galerie, Munich (2000). She has lectured at various conferences including developing symposia; On the future of art school, USC, L.A.,(2006), Why do conceptual artists paint? Because they want to, panel, Frieze art fair, London (2006). Stark writes consistently as part of her practice, for amongst others, Afterall, Art and Text, Context, Frieze. Recent solo publications include, Frances Stark: Collected Writings 1993-2003, Bookworks, London (2007), Frances Stark: Collected works, Bookworks, London (2007), The Architect and the Housewife, Bookworks, London (1999).

For more information please contact:

GAMBIA CASTLE
Level One, 454 Karangahape Rd,
PO Box 68782, Newton,
Auckland, New Zealand.
+6493361601 or +64212442243
www.gambiacastle.net or info@gambiacastle.net
Open: Thurs & Fri 12-6pm Sat 11-4pm

www.deptofconversation.blogspot.com

Featuring: Nick Austin, Jon Bywater, Fiona Connor, Sally Conor, Harry Cundy, Amber Easby, Kelly Gibney, Sarah Hopkinson, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby and Henry Oliver.

if you are in Melbourne, Australia, seeing his work at Conical:

Conical Inc
Upstairs, 3 Rochester St
Fitzroy, Victoria
Australia 3065

T: 03 9415 6958
E: info@conical.org.au
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday - Friday 12 - 6pm. Saturday 12 - 5 pm

until the 24th of Nov.

Which is the same day he opens a 2 day show, (Sat 24th and Sun 25th) at ENJOY Gallery:

Including a very special performance Saturday night 9pm at the Gallery. Free entry.

Enjoy Public Art Gallery
Level One, 147 Cuba St
Wellington 6011
p. +64 4 384 0174
Send an e-mail

Gallery Hours

Saturdays 11 - 7

Sunday 11 - 7

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Gambia Castle is pleased to present an exhibition by American artist:

STUART SHERMAN

Video Works 1986 -1994

9 November – 1 December 2007

OPENING: Thursday 8 November at 6pm

Sort of like Buster Keaton and sort of like Rene Magritte, Stuart Sherman’s work involves deadpan performance with objects and words both written and spoken.

Sherman worked primarily in the world of experimental theatre, beginning in the 1970s as an actor with Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York. Early on he began to develop his wryly termed “spectacles”, compact performances first done on street corners, apartments and theatres in the manner of magic tricks, with a folding table and a bag of objects such as a tape recorder, a comb and a horseshoe magnet.

Sherman wrote plays and performed them all over the world until his death in 2001. His work was presented at such places as the Museum of Modern Art, the Mudd Club, the Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, the Whitney Museum, the Kunstmuseums in Berne and Zurich, and the Pompidou Center.

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Gambia Castle also highly recommends:

Fiona Connor, ‘Free Literature’ at Window, Auckland
25 October - 18 November 2007
See www.window.auckland.ac.nz for more information

Dan Arps, ‘Gestapo Pussy Ranch’ at the Physics Room, Christchurch
15 November – 15 December 2007
Opening: Wednesday 14 November at 5PM
See www.physicsroom.org.nz for more details

Adam Willetts, ‘Space Rocks and Star Portals’ at A Centre For Art, Auckland
31 October – 17 November 2007
Opening: Wednesday 31 October at 6pm
Room 5, Level 3, Achilles house, Corner Custom and Commerce Streets.
Opening hours: Thurs 11-7, Fri and Sat 1-7

Elam Open Days
10 & 11 November from 10am-6pm
Elam School of Fine Ars
20 Whitaker Place & 9 Mount Street, Auckland

Upcoming Easy Listening talks:

Paul Winstanley
Thursday 1st November 2007 at 6PM
At the Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium, Corner Wellesley and Kitchener Streets, Auckland

UK-based curators Kitty Anderson and Gavin Delahunty
Monday 12th November at 6PM
At the Elam Lecture Theatre, Whittaker Place, Auckland

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Recent additions to the Gambia Castle bookcase include:

‘My Poetry, For Example’
A new publication by Kate Newby with contributions from Nick Austin, Jon Bywater, Sarah Hopkinson, David Levinson, Ryan Moore, Tahi Moore and Sriwhana Spong.
Price: $10.00

‘Loquo, Barcelona.’
A publication by Fiona Connor, currently on display in the University of Auckland General Library Foyer.
Price: $15.00

‘TWONE’
By Sriwhana Spong and Kate Newby with essays by Kah Bee Chow and David Levinson.
Price: $5.00

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