the intraspace project: interventions with waikato museum non-gallery space 

The Intraspace Project  is Waikato Museum's latest initiative in interrogating the building as installlation site. Activating non-gallery space as sites where artists' interventions can occur.

Utilising utilitarian locations within and external to  the museum building, the curator will solicit artists to interface with the designated spaces and respond accordingly. These interactions will culminate in anything from one to seven works in new spaces that could last one minute to one month.

All of the works will be made visible to the world, creating a virtual but real-time exhibition that is not bound by fiscal, spatial nor bureaucratic intervention. It's the simple USE of space that activates the art.

This is the first of its kind in Museums in Aotearoa and possibly internationally.

"Very few of my favourite exhibitions have had catalogues or were even reviewed, so I have to think of curating as temporary provocation rather than as a message to posterity. The responsibility of the curator (like that of the artist) is to provoke thought and sometimes action to educate, surprise, and delight. I’m accountable to anyone who takes the trouble to look at a show I’ve curated. Today, as ever, I’d like to see exhibitions that challenge visual convention, break out of commercial and institutional gridlock, are not dependent on fashion or trends or tons of money to be effective, and take on issues unlikely to be considered within art’s purview. " *

For information,  also see our Facebook page. To see the virtual performances and art works we will be posting these to our YouTube account.

All exhibitions are viewable by appointment throughout the working week. 07 8386716 or email Intraspace Curator: Leafa Wilson

(click on artist's name for information about them, click on image for more about their work in the INTRASPACE PROJECT)

Shahram Entekhabi,  Golden Edition,  2011	Klaus Felitz ,  Battlefield, 2011	George Rump ,   Untitled Series, 2011
Chris Kraus ,  Frank Sargeson 1 - 6 2011	M.O.T.H. Museum of True History,   The Renovation, 2011	Florian Heinke, A Beer To Spill Them Into Dust, 2011
Lorene Taurerewa, The Strong Shall Lead the Weak, 2010	Emit Snakebeings - CCTV Performance long-term project: Alchemical Pilgrimage 2002 - 2011	Katja Ostermeyer, Zeitspuren 1, 2, & 3 2010 -2011

*Excerpt from ‘Other Walls” by Lucy Lippard
p.103 From Words of Wisdom, the Curator’s Vade Mecum on Contemporary Art