RM Gallery / Off-site publication launch / Fred Ambler Lookout, Parnell, Tāmaki Makaurau
6 - 7:30pm, 22nd March 2022 + 11am - 3pm, 26th March (additional / rain day)
I am not sure whether you received my letter
We are present within the Fred Ambler Lookout field, playing amongst curvilinear clambering elements in the vicinity of Helen Escobedo’s sculpture, Signals, 1971.
As a publication, I am not sure you received my letter,’ is an inquiry into the potentials of ‘play’ held within an archive. The publication is a supporting document or putanga (outlet), a pukapuka pitopito kōrero (journal) providing space to facilitate future subjective and objective engagement. It is key to understand that Escobedo considered the viewer as an integral part of her sculpture, Signals, (1971).
The publication is to be considered as a contribution, an extension of the, anything but, static sculpture, and the International Sculpture Symposium 1971 Archive, held by the E H McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. (A gift of Jim Allen, 2011).
I am not sure whether you received my letter, is composed of excerpts from ISS 1971 archive, supporting essays (courtesy of Emil McAvoy and Eloise Callister-Baker), and exhibition documentation relating to the exhibition, Structure Signalling (Logical Structure or Relating to Something That Happened), (2021).
Thank you to all who facilitate continued presence at the base of Signals, (1971), located at Fred Ambler Lookout, Parnell, Auckland.
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