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Dane Mitchell August - September 2006 The potential paranormal scope and history of the Old museum Building and the Rita Angus Cottage in Thordon formed the basis of a new body of work by Dane Mitchell as the 2006 Massey University/Rita Angus visual artist-in-residence recipient. Paranormal response is a growing pre-occupation of our times, from the television series 'Sensing Murder' to the recent acknowledgement by the New Zealand Police force of the assistance of a local clairvoyant in the tracking of a missing pensioner in Palmerston North, the currency of such methods of information gathering are both topical and contestable. Playfully mixing such paranormal interpretations with museological affect, Mitchell's research takes audio recordings from a Wellington-based psychic's readings of the Old museum Building and the Rita Angus Cottage and grounds as a starting point to tactfully explore both personal and institutional histories.  Sited aptly in the old Museum building and incorporating a variety of media including sound recordings, video, photography and rubbings on paper, Thresholds presents diverse and involved research into a sense of 'presence', time and display. For those prepared to consider the mystical, through to perhaps the more skeptical among us, Mitchell's work moves reliably from a considered critical enquiry to at times quite blithe takes on the ways of accessing senses of space and history.

Daniel Agnihotri-Clark 20 July 2006, 8pm www.intimacyandinyerface.net Intimacy and In.yer.face was a live performance/installation event and remix project, featuring an interdisciplinary selection of local and international artists, operating in the nexus between art and technology. Exploring the ways in which our conception of site is fragmented when agents participate from spatially dispersed locations, and when the boundaries between online and physical performative space are blurred, Intimacy and In.yer.face investigated this fragmentation, the endless and cyclical encoding and decoding of information that occurs in the interface between humans and machines. Intimacy and In.yer.face occurred as a one-night event featuring simultaneous live performances and interactive installations, linked by real-time streaming of audio and video signals broadcast over the internet.  The event featured new works by the globally dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision (New Zealand, London, Helsinki), the interdisciplinary artist Kartini Thomas (Wellington), aerialists/actors Pipi-Ayesha Evans and Rhys Latton (Wellington), and audio/video artists Emil McAvoy and Damian Stewart (Wellington). Intimacy and In.yer.face led to the presentation of remixes under the title Indexicality of the Intimate Trace. You can visit this project here. Intimacy and In.Yer.face is the second performance event curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, following the 2005 event Indeterminacy and Interface. These projects form a significant component of Daniel's on-going doctoral research at the Massey University School of Fine Arts.

Karin van Roosmalen, Sarah Farrah & Paul Johnson June - July 2006 In early May Litmus was partner to our first off-site project, a collaboration between artist and School of Fine Arts lecturer Karin van Roosmalen, City Gallery assistant curator and writer Sarah Farrah and designer and Design Works employee Paul Johnson. Karin, Sarah and Paul produced a collaborative project over the previous year and a half after first meeting and working together on Karin's exhibition project Flying at a Slant at the City Gallery's Hirschfeld Gallery in early 2004. A publication documenting the project and the findings of the their collaborations to date, was also on view in the Design Works offices, Dixon St, Central Wellington.