Last week was First Thursday, clearly named by being the first Thursday of the month, where the galleries and spaces around Auckland bustle with exhibition openings and events. Some studio pals and I made our way around Auckland, up from Symonds Street to K Road to Ponsonby and down to Audio Foundation on Poynton Tce.
Ben Pyne had his solo exhibition, 'Axis' down at Audio Foundation;
"Ben Pyne is interested in forming work where the label ‘viewer’ becomes obsolete and is replaced by the term ‘participant’. The idea that one no longer simply views a work, but experiences it through multiple senses and modes of perception — from physical to conceptual, are activated in his immersive installation. His practice is concerned with the physicality of sound — the haptic qualities that sound and noise possess. Sound is created by physical contact between two surfaces — it is a synesthetic combination of radiance and contact. In his work, sound is amplified and abstracted, converted into unperceivable digital information and then re-converted into some other form of perceivable phenomena — how a sound feels rather that what it represents." - audiofoundation.org.nz
I may be a bit biased when it comes to Ben's work, but it's really is so engaging. At this exhibition he had small contraptions which rubbed two rods together, making a sound somewhat like chalk. He placed these contraptions in inconspicuous places in a stairwell. You hear them before you see them, therefore you're actively looking for the little things all the time, wondering whether there are more or less of them then you see or think, and where the hell they are. Inside the space, along with some videos works which I admittedly didn't spend much time with, was a massive circular, incredibly slow spinning rod that you could duck under and stand in the middle of. I want to talk to Ben more about this work as I wasn't sure exactly what was going on but it was fascinating just to watch people engage and engage myself with the contraction.
Here are some others we had a look at: (Click titles to visit the Gallery Sites)
Ben Pyne had his solo exhibition, 'Axis' down at Audio Foundation;
"Ben Pyne is interested in forming work where the label ‘viewer’ becomes obsolete and is replaced by the term ‘participant’. The idea that one no longer simply views a work, but experiences it through multiple senses and modes of perception — from physical to conceptual, are activated in his immersive installation. His practice is concerned with the physicality of sound — the haptic qualities that sound and noise possess. Sound is created by physical contact between two surfaces — it is a synesthetic combination of radiance and contact. In his work, sound is amplified and abstracted, converted into unperceivable digital information and then re-converted into some other form of perceivable phenomena — how a sound feels rather that what it represents." - audiofoundation.org.nz
I may be a bit biased when it comes to Ben's work, but it's really is so engaging. At this exhibition he had small contraptions which rubbed two rods together, making a sound somewhat like chalk. He placed these contraptions in inconspicuous places in a stairwell. You hear them before you see them, therefore you're actively looking for the little things all the time, wondering whether there are more or less of them then you see or think, and where the hell they are. Inside the space, along with some videos works which I admittedly didn't spend much time with, was a massive circular, incredibly slow spinning rod that you could duck under and stand in the middle of. I want to talk to Ben more about this work as I wasn't sure exactly what was going on but it was fascinating just to watch people engage and engage myself with the contraction.
Here are some others we had a look at: (Click titles to visit the Gallery Sites)
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