Artist Talk #2 - Auckland City Council Public Art

Auckland City Council Public Art Projects – Artist Lecture Series #2

 Mariele Neudecker (Germany / UK) and Daniel Crooks (NZ / Australia)

 When: Thursday, 19 November, starts at 6.30pm (approx 1 hour)

Where: Town Hall Chamber, Queen Street

Admission is FREE

 Come and hear two visiting artists, Mariele Neudecker (Germany / UK) and Daniel Crooks (NZ / Australia) talk about their past and current art projects.

 Neudecker’s light, water and sound installations ask, “What happens when the emotive and the empirical 'coincide' within a piece of work? How do we re-define the sublime? How much is it possible to 'control' experience within any work?”

 Crooks makes moving images using a ‘time slice’ technique, which extracts thin slices from a moving image stream and then puts them back together, but in ways that shift our perception of stillness and movement.

 These artists are visiting Auckland as part of a public art project briefing. Auckland City Council is pleased to present this lecture in conjunction with an exciting portfolio of major public art commissions planned for Auckland city, which will be developed over the next few years. The council is currently working with selected artists from New Zealand and overseas on concepts.

Watch out for more lectures in this series (November 2009 to February 2010):

Shirazeh Houshiary (Iran / UK)

Anthony McCall (UK / USA)

Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil)

Daniel von Sturmer (Australia)

Spencer Finch (USA)

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico)