Episode notes
Every second Tuesday lunchtime, Christina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery and co-curator of In Relation: Performance Works by Peter Roche & Linda Buis 1979–1985, selects a performance in the exhibition and reads the relevant original notes drafted by the artists or compiled by their most assiduous audience member, the critic and curator Wystan Curnow. Her idea is to bring a live dimension into the gallery as a way of animating the documentation on display and sharing first-hand insights in their unedited form. Each reading will be between 15 and 20 minutes with time for questions after.
In this reading Tina reads both Peter Roche’s and Wystan Curnow’s original notes written soon after the Night Piece performance, executed in the Old Gasworks in Freemans Bay in Auckland. This was undertaken in the dark without the permi ...
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