Various Artists with Nicholas & Beth

For ArtWeek in the City Centre, Frances also spoke with Curator & co-director of Season gallery, Francis McWhannel, about the gallery’s exhibition of Robyn Kahukiwa’s work ‘Tangata Whenua’, currently being shown at the gallery and open late for Late Night Art. 

Phil Elverum is the primary songwriter, performer, and producer for  Mount Eerie and The Microphones. For around 27 years, Phil has been creating some of the most revered and critically acclaimed indie folk of all time. His music veers between stripped back acoustic guitar recordings, to terrifyingly loud and distorted sonic experiments.

Mount Eerie is currently on the verge of a return to Aotearoa, playing  in Tāmaki Makaurau, Pōneke, and Ōtepoti with Black Belt Eagle Scout - another band from Washington State that will bring new and classic Mount Eerie tunes to a new, full band soundscape. 

I’ve been obsessed with the music of The Microphones and Mount Eerie since I was fourteen. I think I had the Glow Part 2 album cover as my profile picture on Google for about four years, so suffice to say it was a real privilege to interview him. We had a yarn about the upcoming shows, his previous tours of Aotearoa, twenty years of the Mount Eerie name, and more.

The Kit is a brand new subscription-based resource facility located on the basement level of Artspace Aotearoa in the former sorting room of the Tāmaki Makaurau central post office. Like the sorting room, The Kit seeks to sift and connect, making sure skills, support, and cohort are enabled post-art school, or as practitioners seek to deepen their professional capabilities. To hear about the initiative and its Open Day on Saturday Frances caught up with Artspace Aotearoa's Sally McMath. 

Over at the recently reopened Ponsonby Studio One Toi Tū space, one of the first post-renovation exhibitions is Naomi Azoulay Where Are You From?

This features various portraits of POC from around Tāmaki Makaurau, aiming to discuss the feeling of place as an immigrant in Aotearoa. 

Liam had a chat with Naomi about the exhibition.