Press Release – Adam Art Gallery
Join artist Billy Apple and Adam Art Gallery Director Christina Barton for a performance of the recorded sound piece,
Glass Transformation, 1972. This is the work’s first presentation in Wellington and is programmed to coincide with Kate Newby’s major exhibition
YES TOMORROW, which also features works made with broken glass collected for the occasion.
The sound recording is the only tangible remainder of a three-part project conceived and executed by conceptual artist Billy Apple and experimental composer Annea Lockwood over three years between November 1970 and April 1972.
Glass Transformation was first presented on the evening of 7 April 1972 at 98 Greene Street Loft, an alternative space run by Holly and Horace Solomon in New York City. It features the recorded sounds of broken glass being swept, crushed and sieved and is presented in total darkness so that aural sensations are intensified. The piece will be introduced by Barton, who
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 3:55 pm
Join artist Billy Apple and Adam Art Gallery Director
Christina Barton for a performance of the recorded sound
piece,
Glass Transformation, 1972. This is the
work’s first presentation in Wellington and is programmed
to coincide with Kate Newby’s major exhibition
YES
TOMORROW, which also features works made with broken
glass collected for the occasion.
The sound recording is
the only tangible remainder of a three-part project
conceived and executed by conceptual artist Billy Apple and
experimental composer Annea Lockwood over three years
between November 1970 and April 1972.
Glass
Transformation was first presented on the evening of 7
April 1972 at 98 Greene Street Loft, an alternative space
To receive the Queen’s Service Medal
Peter Goodbehere was a founding member of the Napier branch of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies in 1959, and president for 42 years, from 1960 to 2002.
Century Cinema co-ordinator Peter Goodbehere with the film “Under The Southern Cross” in Napier in 1999. (File photo) His expert skills and dedication to restoration saved many damaged films. He established Century Cinema in Napier in 1990, the first art-house cinema in Hawke’s Bay. As manager and projectionist until his retirement in 2010, he watched it grow from two screenings a week to more than 25.
Grace Hutton was part of the project team developing the national museum Te Papa in the 1990s, and has been its Kaitiaki Taonga of Pacific Cultures since 2004, mentoring Pacific interns and volunteers.