Louise Menzies at Gambia Castle

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Gambia Castle presents a performance by:

Louise Menzies

Talking while Swimming, cont. /
It's not an awesome park

Saturday 9 August 2008

4.00 pm

B.Y.O.

Giving advice about where to eat lunch, a Taihape checkout operator warned “It's not an awesome park.” Her disclaimer provides the title for a continuation of Louise Menzies' recent performance project, 'Talking while Swimming', commissioned as part of the exhibition 'Land Wars' at Te Tuhi and first performed at the Riverhead Reserve on the shore of the Tamaki estuary.

Menzies' performance will again take the form of a public talk, re-staging her discussion of the possibilities of the urban outdoors, vernacular and fictional, continuing her interest in the form of public gestures, site, and language, within the context of Kate Newby's 'Thinking with your body'.

Moving between sculpture, photography, performance and writing, Louise Menzies's work has been shown throughout New Zealand and Australia, with recent projects including 'Shelter or Marquee' (Enjoy, 2007) and the ongoing series 'Sparkling Duets' (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2006; The Physics Room, 2007). Menzies recently relocated to Auckland from Wellington, where she studied the Massey School of Fine Arts and was involved with the running of Enjoy Public Art Gallery.

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Kate Newby's exhibition, 'Thinking with your body,' closes this Saturday 4 August at 4pm.

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For further information please contact the gallery:

Gambia Castle
1/454 Karangahape Rd
PO Box 68782 Newton
Auckland 1145
New Zealand
Ph. +6493361601
Mob. +64212442243
info@gambiacastle.net
www.gambiacastle.net
Open: Thurs, Fri 12-6, Sat 11-4
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