Pania goes 3D

This is just to signal the latest entry on the Pania Press blog, outlining our new book series-in-progress Pania Peculiars, Pania Playscripts and Pania Singles.

Bronwyn has described the genesis of some of her new 3D techniques in the write-up accompanying all the pretty pictures of pop-ups and puppet theatres (taken with the wonderful new digital camera she got for her birthday -- thanks again, June and John!).

Check it out here.

Tongdo Fantasia

OUi boutique is pleased to present:

Gabriel White

Tongdo Fantasia

DVD/BOOKLET LAUNCH, WINDOW PROJECTION AND PHOTOGRAPHY

PREVIEW
THURSDAY 7 AUGUST 2008 - 5.30PM
OUi boutique, St Kevin’s Arcade, K rd, Auckland

EXHIBITION 8 AUG – 4 SEPT 2008

www.gabrielwhite.co.nz
www.ouiboutique.co.nz

Those of you who've been keeping up with this blog know my views on Gabriel White's video and photographic work. I wrote a review of his previous film Aucklantis (2006) here and a brief account of our own collaborations A Town Like Parataxis (2000) and The Perfect Storm (2000) here.

On Thursday he's launching his latest work Tongdo Fantasia. This film has been a long time in the making. It's been refined and recut until it represents the essence of a Westerner's alienation - and, at the same time, paradoxically, curious at-homeness - in a strange new cultural setting: in this case, South Korea.

A suite of photographs from the work were included in Landfall 214. These, and hopefully more besides, will be on exhibition at OUi boutique for the next month. So come on up to K Rd this Thursday to check it out. You really won't regret it.

Reading at Poetry Live this Tuesday

Trapped within the Topographical Diagram of the Kingdom, Yuan Hong was deluded by fantasies. Anything he thought of appeared before his eyes. he thought of a river, and a river appeared before him; he thought of a mountain, and suddenly he saw one. he could see and have anything he pleased. He forgot himself, and unconsciously turned back into an ape ... But before long, he saw Yang Jian coming toward him with a sword.
_ Gu Zhizhong, trans. Creation of the Gods [c.1600]. 2 vols. 1992 (Beijing: New World Press, 1996), 2: 399.

POETRY LIVE

tuesday 5th August 2008
8 pm onwards
at the Classic Studio
upstairs at 321 Queen Street

Guest Poet: Jack Ross

Jack Ross's latest novel, EMO, came out in June this year from Titus Books. To date he has published three full-length poetry collections: City of Strange Brunettes (Pohutukawa Press, 1998), Chantal's Book (HeadworX, 2002) and To Terezín (Massey, 2007), as well as two novels, two books of short fiction, and several poetry chapbooks. He edited, with Jan Kemp, the bestselling trilogy of CD / text anthologies Classic, Contemporary& New NZ Poets in Performance (AUP, 2006-8).

He (with the indispensable assistance of Bronwyn Lloyd) will be reading from his latest work-in-progress, The Puppet Oresteia.

Guest Musician: Simen Taylor

Simen Taylor's musical roots lie in old style piano blues and American folk; which he reinterprets with electricity, sweat, and swamp drawl. His live performances swing from being insanely fast to intensely slow - often all in the same song!

You can catch Simen solo, or with his three piece band: The Blue Devils. Whatever your taste in music you will agree: this twenty seven year old delivers authentic Rythym n' Blues, and Soul, with kick-ass punch. This is piano work on steroids!

Simen also plays with Tim Finn, The Darcy Perry Band, Darren Watson, and other renowned artists.

MC: Christian

Open Mic

Koha