Peter Robinson participating in the symposium ‘The in and the out of it’ at Artspace Aotearoa
On the occasion of the two-person exhibition Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson at Artspace Aotearoa, the institution will host a symposium entitled ‘The in and the out of it’ on Saturday 9th March.
The symposium aims to explore the zones of the artworld(s) by presenting a variety of positions from across the motu spanning artistic practice; collection politics; and the productions of art history. During the symposium, Peter Robinson will be in conversation with artist Ngahuia Harrison to discuss the exciting yet ambivalent process of moving work from a studio, community, or whānau context, into the public realm. They will address questions such as ‘What types of supportive protocols do artists establish to navigate this?’ and ‘What is the in and the out of the studio?’ throughout the talk, which will be followed by a Q&A.
This symposium is a Chartwell 50th Anniversary 2024 Project. Space is limited and booking is essential.
The in and the out of it (Symposium) Artspace Aotearoa Saturday, 9 March 2024 10:00 – 15:30 NZDT
Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson at Artspace Aotearoa
Artspace Aotearoa will present a two-person exhibition showcasing the work of seminal German artist Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) and leading Aotearoa artist Peter Robinson. Coupled together here to examine how each artist establishes grammars of expression by testing out systems of assembly, seriality, and repetition, Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson will showcase each artist’s proficiency to push at the intrinsic nature of space and its undeniably social potential.
Presented in dialogue here, the presentation at Artspace Aotearoa examines the process through which their respective work asks fundamental questions of us as an audience: what are the rules of engagement here? How do we relate to one another? Do we want to participate in this? What happens next? Expanding on this, both artists have necessarily wrestled with the legitimacy of art and the artworld as a territory where change can happen. Spanning sculpture, painting, film, and archival documentation, in this exhibition we encounter an arc of contemporary sculptural practice that calls up its very emergence as a Western construct in mid 20th-century Europe to our present-day Aotearoa.
In this artworld-in-the-world we are invited to consider our bodies in relation to edges, where one thing ends and another begins. This activates the spatio-political quality of time with both artists tapping into this ambiguity: time as a monetizable measure, as an expressive singularity, as a language. This exhibition dives into form: waka, or tongues, or chimneys, or motorways, as well as the labour that it takes to produce all of this—our world in which we live together.
Priorities: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Robinson Artspace Aotearoa 10 February – 6 April 2024
Peter Robinson ‘Kā Kaihōpara’ at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Peter Robinson’s major new exhibition ‘Kā Kaihōpara’ is open at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Kā Kaihōpara is a journey of discovery – exploring concepts, materials, and ways of making and seeing. Taking the material language of modern building and construction, Peter Robinson (Kāi Tahu) creates a speculative and open-ended installation that navigates audiences through ideas that have been occupying him over a recent period of research.
