TRIPLE AAA
At the School of Art Gallery, Dunedin, from Monday 9th May - 21st May 2011, André Stitt and Alastair MacLennan, from Wales and Northern Ireland respectively with the help of the British Couincil, will join current Artist Adjunct Adrian Hall, to form “ TRIPLE AAA ”.
Akshuns, Actualisations and Live Works, will be produced in 3 locations; at the School of Art Gallery, at None, Stafford Street and at Chicks in Port Chalmers during this concentrated period of activity. Daily programmes will be available on Facebook and from Julie Goldsack, Dunedin School of Art - telephone 0800 762 786.
(photos below - Alastair MacLennan, Andre Stitt, Adrian Hall)
André Stitt “ the only British Performance artist able to be truly compared with Gilbert and George”, Adrian Hall and Alastair MacLennon, the “Pope of Performance Art”, were colleagues and friends in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid-seventies. Their paths have rarely crossed since, despite each having worked and shown globally.
Adrian Hall left Belfast in 1978 to work in Sydney, then London, to return to Sydney, thence to rural Otago in 2004. In the early 1970s he was one of the very first Artists in Residence at Elam School of Art, Auckland and showed at the Barry Lett Gallery - in a stable which included Colin Macahon and Ralph Hotere.
The professional careers of the three artists total around one hundred and forty years. Each have had extensive careers in International venues. This fortnight represents a first time in this situation for each of them. The opportunity to explore three distinct attitudes to live-working is allowed them by the generosity of the Dunedin School of Art and the Otago Polytechnic.
They will live close to the gallery, to work there at night and other times, to produce a programme of live and improvised artworks generated through their reunion. The detritus from their working together, and alongside each other for
an intense fortnight will be exhibited for a further two weeks after
the live work ends. The results are unpredictable, but it is expected that drawings, photo images, video and mixed media installation might result.
PRESS CONFERENCE with the
three artists at 12.15pm,
Dunedin School of Art Gallery,
Monday, 9th May, 2011
Triple AAA : Stitt, MacLennan, and Hall
Further information on each artist
can be found at:
André Stitt
www.andrestitt.com
and www.tracegallery.org
Professor of Performance and Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
Director of the Centre for Fine Art Research at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Wales, UK.
In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work.
Adrian Hall
http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz/schools-departments/art/artists-in-residence.html
Artist Adjunct Dunedin School of Art 2010
and 2011. Read an interview with Adrian Hall, in the Otago Daily Times.
Alastair Maclennan
(image above right) Alastiar MacLennan, Warp Wrap
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/maclennan
Emeritus Professor in Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Honorary Fellow, Dartington College of Art,
Devon England.Honorary Associate, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Scotland