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In the building: Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby,

Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan

Online: Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh

Opening and website launch: Friday 10 July, 6pm

The Adam Art Gallery has invited nine New Zealand

artists, designers and writers to produce new works

that respond to our uncertain times.

Using the unique architectural structures of the Adam

Art Gallery – situated at Victoria University’s Kelburn

campus – and the online space of the gallery’s website,

the artists have been asked to produce works that

speculate the future – in the context of the political

realities of our contemporary world.

Exhibition curator Laura Preston says the exhibition

will showcase innovative ideas from nine young artists,

each responding in their own way to the current sociopolitical

climate.

“The artists’ projects will act as a series of propositions for

embracing this time of uncertainty, where structures and

systems that we have come to know are being brought

into focus and redefined—from the mechanisms of the

capitalist system and the imminent risks to the environment,

to the modernist idea of progress,” she says.

She says the exhibition will consider the potential of both

the gallery and the web to act as sites that reflect on the shape

of power, and to consider alternatives to present institutions.

“The exhibition will also respond to the university as a site

for research and critical thinking, and as a forum for the

revisioning of art histories,” says Preston.

Accompanied by a public programme of night talks, a work-

shop and sound event, the Adam Art Gallery will become

an active site of discussion and a resource for the future.