On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination

An experiment of institutional programming on exhibition making through a contextual shift

Nilbar Güreş
Samir Harb
Index
Toril Johannessen
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Viron Erol Vert
Fancy Violence
Vangelis Vlahos
and more…

Curated by Misal Adnan Yildiz

On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination is a research based experimental project, which intended to develop, introduce, and integrate a new curatorial perspectives into the institutional framework, exhibition programming, and organisational structure of Artspace. The project included the exhibit of art works, staging of performances, and events.

The curatorial strategy behind the new conceptual directions for institutional programming departs from the current needs of the institution, and the physical reality of its location. It draws inspiration from literature towards imagining a new linguistic experience, a feeling of an unknown landscape, and breathing in a different climate.

The curatorial approach aims to identify common necessities shared by Artspace, audiences, and authors and eventually lead the community to a schedule of changes, formations and restructuring during the process of the exhibition. Presented art works will operate as references for the abstraction, conception, and perception of change. The works were adapted, moved, and borrowed from their contexts, in relation to the organisation of institutional time and space, content development of the artistic mind, and public communication with the potential audience at different levels of operation.

As a complex equation designed by the Artspace Director at the time, Misal Adnan Yildiz in conversation with the team, the Auckland art community, and the potential audience with regards to the conditions, expectations, and inspirations on the air, the project stands on two methodical key statements:

A) Any exhibition is born out of a need, and its production, installation, and reception are based on such a critical decision making process of balancing the necessities (which could be artistic, contextual, cultural, institutional, social, political or art-historical) at critical moments of conceptualisation, facilitation, and communication.

B) Institutions with a strong dedication to research development for public access and interest in designing new learning experiences are more fit to create efficient exhibition forms as well as creative ideas, which are seeded into the local context and will logically catch international attention and have long term impact.

The exhibit of art works focuses on critical perspectives about body-transformation/mind-travel, the archaeology of knowledge and the engineering of life, as well as rituals of transgression and stages of repetition. On the moment of change there is always a new threshold of imagination aimed to operate as an open studio space for collective learning experiences, selected literature pieces are gradually arriving in the Artspace Reading Room, with a parallel programming of events, reading sessions and discussions.

PUBLIC PROGRAMMES
Take off / A conversation with Misal Adnan Yildiz
Saturday November 22, 11am
Who are you? Where are we?
Public Talk and more

Within his first 500 hours in Auckland, the Artspace Director at the time, Misal Adnan Yildiz introduced himself to the local audience with a talk followed by morning tea.

From 1 pm visitors were invited to participate in a workshop-based poster production, designed by Index.

At Altitude / Opening with a performance piece from Toril Johannessen &
Live Launch/ Online Auction: Artists for Kobane with a special contribution from Billy Apple
December 5, 2014, 6pm

Curatorial Notes inside the Cockpit
December 6, 2014, 2pm

Touch Down
February 28, 2014, 2pm