queer nz gothic brigade (after Peter Jackson's HC's)

And coming soon for light relief an exclusive interview with filmmaker Beatrice Krill. Krill talks about her life as a self-proclaimed hetero-been, a bi-been, and today, perhaps even a les-been - just kidding, though she asks, who is this les of tomorrow, as well as sharing the inspiration behind her latest ground-breaking doco, Bathing suit wonderland...

meeeeee dia (l)

Just to start us off, Gran Fury!
Constance Miller, word
nuff said, right?
Which one would you go for??
Blonde ambition pash
Go Oprah, Go Oprah!!!
Yep, she is, so, like, what?
Remember the time??
New new new!!!! mau mau more!!!
talkin bout my generation
Punk Idle Idol
double troubleAnne Shelton, Doublet, Parker/Hulme Crime Scene Port Hills, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001
oh yes, that herstory

equal = equal

Twins!!!

Gay window advertising?
You've gotta have balls to be that much of a les

Nice shell
so, like, don't out her man, right? Jus let her do her stuff

Present

Oh yes, another image.

Go, do, make.

Avant-garde Homosexuality?

At the end of this page you can see documentation of a performance (?) at an opening at YK3 in Melbourne. 50 big ones if you can find Daniel du Bern.

thy thigh

Lightbox Tests - Clare & Marnie

image-and-textstravaganza

Title, Image, Sound-Bite and Text

All the Cunning Stunts

All the Cunning Stunts is a multi-voiced collaborative text and image-based work which tackles the confounding intricacies of lesbian subjectivity through objectivity - like a medal-winning swim team.

All the Cunning Stunts is a medley-voiced collaborative exhibition viewable across eight light-boxes in Courtney Place, Wellington. Four New Zealand artists have developed All the Cunning Stunts to coincide with the advent of the 2nd Asia Pacific Outgames and in response to a curatorial brief to address ‘contemporary homosexuality’. The potential of objects, images and language to linger on the seen, unrepresentative, notional, fictional, unmediated, idealistic, real, and confounding intricacies of female same-sex experience, take the lead in the work. All the Cunning Stunts aims to emerge from today’s chlorinated slipstream as a medal-winning swim team.

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Good Morning! Great to see all the activity that happened while we were dreaming! I don't want to spend too much more time on this press stuff, as I think we are really close, and trying to make small tweaks between five folks can take perhaps more time than is needed at this stage..... so Clare and I put all our highlights together in one post to get a solid sense of what is accumulating.

Our preferences once seeing it all together would be for:

1. All the Cunning Stunts (has more of an adventurous narrative implied)

2. Liz's image + caption? (seems like the clearest and bestest option to us, and something that parallels our plans for the light boxes in a confident way)

3. Sound bite (MJ's last version!)

4. Longer text (Really love your longer text Rachel -- esp. clorinated slipstream which will be my name of choice when I finally start my death-metal band -- and I made a few small changes which you can see in the text above)

As the deadline for this is while Clare and I are sleeping, we are both cool for Liz, Rachel and Mary-Jane to make a final call about the title/image/sound-bite/text. Preferences as per this post, but both Clare and I are super happy for it to be in your handses.

Alright!

intervention as invitation

 

test - blog-roll look

followed by interventions in the archive

 

soundbite and soundbite+

I like the soundbite as preferred by Marnie, Clare and M-J (just posted)!

In terms of a slightly more in-depth offering for other media, such as a press release, I present the following. It also includes the words, 'female same-sex experience' as an alternative to lesbian subjectivity...thought I'd offer something up for linguistic debate. I'm happy with the word lesbian, though feel 'female same-sex experience' reflects what I want to be most vocal about in this show, rather than an identity/category politics (though that of course comes into it!), which 'lesbian' suggests for me.


All Cunning Stunts is a medley-voiced collaborative exhibition viewable across eight text and image-infused light-boxes in Courtney Place, Wellington. Four New Zealand artists have developed All Cunning Stunts to coincide with the advent of the 2nd Asia Pacific Outgames and in response to a curatorial brief to address ‘contemporary homosexuality'. The potential of objects and the movement of objects to linger on the seen, unrepresentative, notional, fictional, unmediated, idealistic, real, and confounding intricacies of female same-sex experience, take the lead in the work. All Cunning Stunts aims to emerge from today’s chlorinated slipstream as a medal-winning swim team.

Soundbite II and title

All the Cunning Stunts is a multi-voiced collaborative text and image-based work which tackles the confounding intricacies of lesbian subjectivity through objectivity - like a medal-winning swim team.

I have just changed my mind and prefer 'All the Cunning Stunts' - although it doesn't look as nice typographically as 'All Cunning Stunts' but whatever the consensus is, I'll run with it.

This is a great soundbite - I have just tweaked it slightly by adding a dash and editing out 'set to'. Loving the sporty language!

Now where are we at with the postergirl image? 

Title: to 'the' or not to 'the'

Great to arrive at a title. Over the last couple of days I have had one question about it, whether it should it read:

All the Cunning Stunts

or

All Cunning Stunts

So, what is more cunning ...with 'the' or without 'the'?
My thoughts are that by removing the article from the title, it suggests action versus object or objectification. Without 'the', perhaps the title can also refer to something more inclusive, than referring to a separate group of people or actions ...in turn suggesting a statement more pluralistic and inclusive group of people or actions surrounding the light-box context ...of womenhood? ...of social action?

Sound Bite

1. All the Cunning Stunts is a multi-voiced collaborative text and image-based work which is set to tackle the confounding intricacies of lesbian subjectivity through objectivity like a medal-winning swim team.

2. All the Cunning Stunts is a collaborative work specifically developed at the site of Courtenay Place, on the occasion of the 2nd AsiaPacific Outgames. Bringing together the practices of four artists, All the Cunning Stunts is set to tackle the confounding intricacies of lesbian subjectivity in public space (with bells on).

3. The women cruise in Courtney Place. They stare from café windows, stagger from bars, they meet each other’s gazes, they flash their eyes, they look back. They are seen, unrepresentive, notional, fictional, unmediated, idealistic, and real.

How do these sound? Please comment, alter, deface, etc. I am happy to work on this more before Monday..... Mary-Jane, I hope our two-cents on the sound-bite is useful for you.

Bitsy and Marnie, 2009

PS.

medley
noun
a medley of Beatles songs | a vegetable medley assortment, miscellany, mixture, mélange, variety, mixed bag, grab bag, mix, collection, selection, potpourri, patchwork, bricolage; motley collection, ragbag, gallimaufry, mishmash, jumble, hodgepodge, salmagundi.

Lightbox Template

downloadable image template
1:1 size (low-res)
with guides marking bleed (image/lightbox boarder overlap) and 1500mm from ground eye-level

An image to say hi with

Ok, here we go.... first, close your eyes. Close them. Are they closed? Good, we can continue. Imagine all the cunning stunts, see them in all their stunningness. Now open...

Here are the finalists for New Zealand's New Cunning Stunts:

















I am thinking perhaps this image could have mirrored reflections or some such party-like texture applied to the surface of the panels... or perhaps a collection of images from the blog?

This series is all good, so my selection of this one was based on a text image combination I thought could work on its own. But, actually, I am pulled towards thinking about this image (or a working of) as a light-box image.

As is. For sure.

This would need a little bit of a crop. A chop here and there.

Looking through the blog, I saw this image, and I think it could be an option, but perhaps without the text? As it might be a double title kind of situation?

I have a pull towards this image. It feels like a magic mix of cheeky/funny/serious/slick/tactile/awkward/composed. All the makings for one sexy woman... hehehe.

APPLAUSE!

Call 0800 $$$$ now to place your vote or suggest other potentials.

TITLE!!!!

title..... green house.... fireworks.....contemporary lesbian - what does it mean to position ourselves as artists in public space as lesbian artists, authors? a character that's being tested in this context - she was never gay untill 2 days ago when she came out on the blog..... community voice.... the doubling of the gay.... everyday grapplings, dealings..... homosexual shroud..... prescribed single multi dimensional space... gay shroud.... all the cunning stunts!!!!

towards the inseperable (test 2/2)

towards the inseperable (test 1/1)