Art Not Science Abby Cunnane, Amy Weng, Hamish Petersen

In this episode, we will be sharing with you a recent talk: Interrogating Notions of Peace by Mahdis Azarmandi. The talk offers an exploration into the intricacies of 'peace' against a backdrop of genocide and colonial violence. Her talk challenges conventional understandings of peace and violence, emphasising the practice of 'hope as a discipline' as a pathway towards imagining a world without war.

Contemporary artists' talks, views and news from The Physics Room

In this episode we share a talk between Jess Clifford and Abby Cunnane, an informal discussion following the opening of I’m So Into You, with artists Laila Majid, Zuqiang Peng and Dayle Palfreyman. The show developed from an earlier project of Jess’, To the friend who did not save my life, hosted by Enjoy Contemporary Art Space in late 2023.

In this episode, we’ll be sharing with you two audio tracks by Ōtautahi based artist Luke Shaw. These works were originally made as part of an installation work, Sleepwalker, which was shown at RM Gallery in Tāmaki Makaurau in late 2023. In this presentation the work is stripped back to audio only, by the Opawa 45s: Luke Shaw and bandmate Luke Wood. Sleepwalker draws from an archive of found slide images, and uses processes of rerecording, imagining a sleepwalker as a kind of spectral figure with the ability to move fluidly between memories and cinematic planes.

In this episode, we’ll be sharing readings from Correspondence issue 2.2. This episode includes the editorial by Orissa Keane which introduces the theme of this issue, followed by Lucy Meyle reading Particle Images, Millie Godfery reading Breathing Room, and Albert L Refiti reading Being-Social: The Context in Which the Vā Has to Embed Itself.

In this episode, we’ll be sharing a talk with Ana Iti, an artist currently based in Heretaunga Hastings. Ana’s solo project, I am a salt lake, is on now at The Physics Room. The talk focuses on the three core elements in Ana’s work - the mineral salt, the drawing on a foggy window, the screens of text - circling loosely round them and returning to ideas of voice, narrative, multiplicity and risk, that connect the three.