Litmus: Overcoming Loathing Launch
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Thu Sep 27 2007 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
Litmus: Overcoming Loathing Launch
Thursday, 27 September 2007, 12:28 am
Press Release: Massey University
Massey University School of Fine Arts
Press Release
For immediate release
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Overcoming Loathing
Natural Selection Pamphlet Project
Launch and Problem Solving Workshop
Tuesday 2nd October
Workshop 3.00 – 4.30 pm.
Bring a problem for the panel to consider
Launch 5.00 – 6.30 pm.
Litmus
Room 10Bmezz 10
Old Museum building
Massey University
Buckle St, Wellington
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“Walk a mile in my slippers: soap opera’s appreciation for the unenthused” is one of the many titles mooted to be part of Overcoming Loathing, an ancillary pamphlet project attached to the current sixth issue of Natural Selection and presented in conjunction with Gwyn Porter’s stay in Wellington as the Massey University School of Fine Arts/ Rita Angus inaugural Writer-in-Residence. Dedicated to “problems” (yours, dear reader, the ones you perpetually stare down, surmount, or otherwise negotiate) these expedient publications offer solutions to a multitude of ongoing issues we all face. Overcoming Loathing offers pamphlets of unsolicited advice ranging from personal health care to tips on surviving in the workplace to folklore guides to drug taking in New Zealand.
Originally conceived of for the Living Newspaper event as part of Natural Selection’s participation in the documenta 12 Magazines project, the production of Overcoming Loathing fell over in Kassel due to a series of problems (familiar feelings again, dear reader?). At last realised and up for offer, Overcoming Loathing could be seen as a contemporary suggestion of Lenin’s “collective organiser”, offering forth a generative series of writings for distribution and addition. In true cooperative spirit, some titles for the Overcoming Loathing series have been collectively authored and will continue to grow in an ongoing cycle of production in response to the energies of the writers involved.
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To celebrate Overcoming Loathing please join us for a problem-solving workshop and pamphlet launch next Tuesday 2nd October from 3 pm. in the Litmus office, room 10Bmezz10 in the Old Museum building, Massey University, Buckle Street, Wellington.
A special set of all Overcoming Loathing launch titles together with individual pamphlets will be available from Litmus and via future download from www.naturalselection.org.nz. Please see below for a full list available titles and contributors to date.
For further information and any pamphlet enquiries please contact Louise Menzies at L.C.Menzies@massey.ac.nz/ +64 4 8012794 x6197 or editors@naturalselecion.org.nz.
The School of Fine Arts began its artist-in-residence programme in 2002. Working in partnership with the Thorndon Trust, caretakers of the Rita Angus Cottage, Massey University has established an opportunity for significant visual arts practitioners, both here and overseas, to develop a particular body of work in situ in Wellington. The residency is research focused with the aim of enabling practitioners to concentrate on developing a particular strand of their practice.
The residency is now entering its fifth year. In that time it has hosted artists from Germany (Thomas Bayrle), England (Rachel Chapman) and New Zealand (Ronnie van Hout, David Clegg, Monique Redmond, Dane Mitchell).
Gwyn Porter is an established New Zealand writer, editor and curator. Alongside catalogue and magazine writing for both national and international publications, Gwyn lectures at the Manukau School of Visual Arts and is a member of the Auckland-based artist collective Cuckoo. She is co-founder and editor of the Australasian online Arts Magazine Natural Selection (www.naturalselection.org.nz) established 2004, and co-founder of Clouds Publishing (www.clouds.org.nz) established 2006. Previously she was editor of the historical journal Log Illustrated and worked as the curator for Dunedin Public Art Gallery from 1994-9.
Natural Selection is an Australasian art reviews magazine edited by Gwynneth Porter and Dan Arps, and based in Auckland, New Zealand. Designed by Warren Olds, it is an online magazine distributed as a PDF that people can print out and assemble as a craft project (www.naturalselection.org.nz)
Overcoming Loathing titles presently available are:
“Against pretty much everything really”
“A Beginner’s Guide to Empathy: understanding through song”
“Means outweighing Ends”
“Small Gardening: cultivating unsophisticated practice”
“Appropriate Cleaning methods #1: prewash-Stack”
“The Art School Environment #1: the research cycle”
“Nice Feels Sexy – your valued feedback for a pet project”
“Now that I think about it, I really hope that libertarianism speaks about a core belief in our right to a deep, unfettered and true subjectivity”
“16 Notes on Overcoming Gravity”
“Grandmother, what a long nose you have: when your elders lie”
“Tips for petty crime”
“Put that in your pipe in smoke it: a traveler’s guide to smoking pot in New Zealand”
“May eels slither once again”
“No dependence on words or letters”
“The art school environment #4: The research cycle”
“The idiot’s guide to contemporary art exhibition titling”
“Understanding precedes forgiveness: the symptoms of Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS)”
“Don’t waste your late thirties!: the three-point test for prospective partners”
“Appropriate C0leaning methods #2: botanicals and virgins”
“How to become invisible”
“Fallacious/Irrelevant PhDs – Reader Beware!”
“Song advice from The Byrds: Every day blowin’ spray, in a dolphin’s smile”
“Some of my best friends are video artists”
“The burnt chop syndrome: overcoming guilt (associated with a Catholic upbringing)”, #1-3
“Advice and help: this booklet will help answer your questions”
“FAQs”
“ME: is it me?”
“Burning bush: save the Winter Sweet”
Contributors to date:
Sean O’Reilly, AD Schierning, Chris Hill, James Deutsher, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Dan Arps, Alice Planas, Rob Mckenzie, Paul Cullen, Gwynneth Porter, Matthew Crookes, Nova Paul, DAMP, Michael Morley, Cieran Begley, Paul Johns, Judy Darragh, David Hatcher, Louise Menzies, Jon Bywater.
ENDS
web: www.litmus.org.nz
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