Beyond the Visual

The Artists

Annemieke Montange (b.1996) is a Christchurch artist with a background in painting and mixed media. After studying art and design in 2015, she went on to run a small screen printing business. She is a part time photographer, zine maker and painter: full time creative.

Annemieke is a participating artist for Cardboard Confessional with Audrey Baldwin, Oscar Bannan, Bridget Harris, Neil MacLeod, Annimieke Montage, Patricia Parkin, Jennifer Katherine Shields

Christchurch based artist Audrey Baldwin’s practice is predominantly performance based and centres around the body as a fraught space of constant contention. She investigates identity, power and control narratives, seeking to destabilise public/private, abject/erotic and subject/object binaries. Often utilising everyday actions and routines, Audrey seeks to reframe these actions in an absurd or ritualistic manner.

Her work has been presented in galleries and as part of festivals around New Zealand as well as in Zimbabwe, Japan and India. 2016 saw her attend Morni Hills Performance Art Biennial in India alongside other performance artists from around the globe.

Since 2010, Audrey has been performing and creating interventions and events in and around the Christchurch CBD, through her roles as both artist and arts event manager/co-ordinator for The Social artist collective and curator for First Thursdays Chch.

Gaby Montejo approaches art through photo, actions, music, interviews, and temporary installation. In often a performative style, Gaby explores democracy and hierarchy in a way where the finished work is normally not sold and hung, but instead, consumed. Gaby exhibits internationally, while staying pivotal in the social initiatives and collaborative interventions of Christchurch. Originally from Cuban origins, Gaby was attended art school in America and Australia.

Hyde Productions, featuring Robyn Webster and Fleur de Thier

A tactile exploration of sculpture, dance, sound and light.

Installation artist Robyn Webster and choreographer Fleur de Thier, with six dancers, musician and light artist, collaborate in the development of a new project in CoCA gallery.

Experience the process and see a presentation of the first phase of the project that navigates and alters a shifting terrain.

Process is open and free to view during CoCA gallery hours 10-5 Tuesday 30 August – Saturday 3 September

Performances Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 September, 5:30pm. $20 (booking link will be made available on CoCA website).

Anchor Point is the first work to be produced by Adam Hayward’s Hyde Productions, an agency interested in investing in the process of arts exploration.

Jennifer Katherine Shields studied briefly at Elam School of Fine Arts before pursuing other research interests in sociology, history, and queerness at the University of Auckland. She is currently continuing to pursue these interests outside of strict academic institutions. Her academic work informs her artistic work and vice versa.

Jennifer is interested in ideas and dialogue around dominant narratives and the construction of social structures and norms. She researches these through the lens of queer history and theory, a lens that is also prevalent in her artistic practice, which entails highlighting glitches within these frameworks through interventions that use the language of performative installation. As research and academia is so integral to her practice, she also creates an artist text or essay alongside each of her own works, as well as producing these writings for other artists and exhibitions.

Jennifer is also a show host and producer at RDU 98.5FM.

Jennifer is a participating artist for Cardboard Confessional with Audrey Baldwin, Oscar Bannan, Bridget Harris, Neil MacLeod, Annemieke Montagne, Patricia Parkin, Jennifer Katherine Shields

Neil MacLeod (born 1999) is a Christchurch based musician who is soon to graduate high school. Neil’s background is primarily based in the performing arts however his interests extend to the visual arts too; being a very keen painter and photographer. Next year Neil intends to study Music in Wellington and hopes to collaborate with creative individuals.

Neil is a participating artist for Cardboard Confessional with Audrey Baldwin, Oscar Bannan, Bridget Harris, Neil MacLeod, Annemieke Montagne, Patricia Parkin, Jennifer Katherine Shields

New Dawn is the ambient experimental project from sonic artists Indira Force (Doprah) and Anita Clark (Motte, Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers). The two composers combine improvised violin loops, synthesized textures and ethereal vocals to achieve an immersive listening experience.

Patricia Parkin is a Christchurch based artist who works predominantly in digital media, as well as photography, drawing and text based medias. She completed an Advanced Diploma in fine art at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand in 2015 and won the award for Student of the Year. She is currently a candidate for a BFA at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design. Her practice is influenced by her fascination of self-archive normalized by social media and the contradictions of connections and isconnections within social media.

Patricia has participated in a number group exhibitions: We need to talk, 2015; First Thursdays Christchurch: Solid Goal Volume III, 2015; First Thursday Christchurch; Smallville, 2015; First Thursday Christchurch: The Fitting Room pop up exhibition, 2014;Continuum, 2014.

Patricia is a participating artist for Cardboard Confessional with Audrey Baldwin, Oscar Bannan, Bridget Harris, Neil MacLeod, Annimieke Montage, Patricia Parkin, Jennifer Katherine Shields

Christchurch has become a rich source of sonic art, boasting a growing body of respected practitioners with increasingly strong national and even international reputations.  With the help of CNZ and the Christchurch City Council, the Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists Inc. established the first iteration of the Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery in October 2013 to support the further development of the sonic arts in Ōtautahi.

The Auricle Sonic Arts Gallery and CoCA

The CSSA is a cross-genre and non-hierarchical sonic arts society, interested in providing an outlet for musicians, composers and audio artists investigating live sonic experimentation of any variety. We are also interested in experimental side projects, new collaborations, artists investigating the relation of audio to other (live) media, and in people who don’t yet consider they have an audience outside their own headphones.

CoCA curatorial intern Indira Force invited members of the CSA to respond to artworks in Contemporary Christchurch during CoCAcabana, October 2016.