Walters Prize
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Performances of Alicia Frankovich's Floor
Resistance will be staged within the artist's space in the
Walters Prize exhibition, which runs at the Auckland Art Gallery
Toi o Tamaki from 4 August to 11 November 2012. The next
performance take place on Friday 19 October at 3pm.
Floor Resistance is a series of choreographed
movements and physical spatial relations, some rehearsed and some
unrehearsed with unknown outcomes. Spaces and conventions are
subverted and slightly altered so we in turn consider our positions
and behaviours. This work merges classical music and forces of
movement in a live contemporary art experience.
Alicia Frankovich is one of four artists nominated for the 2012
Walters Prize, which is awarded for an outstanding work of
contemporary New Zealand art produced and exhibited during the past
two years.
In a statement on her work, the jury said: "Alicia Frankovich
has developed a number of exceptional bodies of work both in New
Zealand and overseas. The panel was especially compelled by her
performance work Floor Resistance, which took place at
the Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin in 2011. This work re-negotiates the
audience/ performer relationship employing an orchestra in an
unconventional configuration to unfold highly original ideas
pertaining to the staging of live art. By altering the positioning
and placement of the orchestra in the space, Frankovich asks us to
rethink and experience anew the relationship between audience
member and participant."
Each of the four artists shortlisted for the 2012 Walters Prize
receives $5000 and the opportunity to present their selected
project in the Walters Prize exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery
Toi o Tamaki, which runs for three months from 4 August. An
international judge will be will be named later this year to select
the winner who will receive $50,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip
to New York, including the opportunity to exhibit at Saatchi &
Saatchi's world headquarters.
Born in Tauranga 1980, Alicia Frankovich currently lives and
works in Berlin. Her recent exhibition and performance highlights
include: (2011): Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, (solo), Dublin
Contemporary, City Within the City, Artsonje Center,
Seoul, Burn what you cannot steal, Galerja Nova,
Zagreb, Floor Resistance, Hebbel Am Ufer,
HAU 3, Berlin; Undisciplined Bodies; an Evening Dissolving
Social and Spatial Conventions, Salon Populaire, Berlin;
(2010): Effigies, Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
NEW010, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne, The 4th Auckland Triennale, Last Ride in a Hot Air
Balloon, Auckland City Art Gallery; (2009): A Plane
for Behavers, ARTSPACE, Auckland (solo), Picturing the
Studio, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; (2008):
International Prize for Performance,
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento. Frankovich has
recently published her first monographic catalogue:
Film/Body/Gesture/ Alicia Frankovich: Book of Works,
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2011. Frankovich has just completed
a three-month residency at AIR Antwerp.
Located in New Zealand on Auckland's Karangahape Road,
Starkwhite presents a programme of artists' projects, solo shows by
represented and invited artists, independently curated exhibitions
and occasional forays inot new music and other interdisciplinary
practices.
Please contact the gallery for further information and
images.
Starkwhite
510 Karangahape Road, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel. +64 9 3070703
Monday to Friday: 11.00am to 6.00pm
Saturday: 11.00am to 5.00pm
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