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Saturday 27 June | 09:45 AM - 08:00 PM
Sunday 28 Jun | 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Opening weekend events are free
Join us for an expansive opening weekend celebration. Across two days, a series of lively public programmes invites you into deeper, embodied encounters with the exhibition, offering in-depth activations that move beyond observation and into spaces of critical thinking and direct, relational engagement with the artworks.
Saturday 27 June:
9:45 am – 11:15 am
Curator and artist tour: sound as a medium — acoustic ecologies and alternative energy.
Location: Ngāmotu House and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
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11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Composing with Decomposition: a fermentation series after Yuko Mohri.
Location: Todd Energy Learning Centre at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre.
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1:30 pm - 2:05 pm
Environments 12 (2023) sound installation by Machine Listening.
Location: Len Lye Centre Cinema.
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3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Sirening (as a verb): Aotearoa Chapter | a conversation and performance.
Location: Len Lye Centre Cinema.
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4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Environmentality: a lecture-performance by Machine Listening.
Location: Len Lye Centre Cinema.
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Sunday 28 June:
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Konvolute B: Environments a participatory workshop by Machine Listening.
Location: Todd Energy Learning Centre at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre.
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Toi ma te whānau | Family Art special
Location: In the gallery.
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Image: Yuko Mohri, Decomposition, 2022. Fruit, speaker, cable, wood, computer, dimensions variable. Installation view in Art & New Ecology, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2022. Image: Naoki Takehisa. Courtesy of the artist, Project Fulfill Art Space, mother’s tankstation, Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, WHITE SPACE.