{"id":1739,"date":"2022-06-22T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teuru.org.nz\/?post_type=mec-events&p=1739"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:11:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:11:56","slug":"the-brain","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/whats-on\/calendar\/the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brain\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0an exhibition of moving image works and a sculptural structure that creates a conceptual diagram of the human brain.\u00a0Developed in partnership with CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, the exhibition crosess over many disciplines, borrowing from philosophy, neuroscience, fiction and spatial design. Inspired in part by a series found on YouTube, artist and curator Christina Read is interested in the broad underlying questions that studying the brain provokes. She asks, \u201cAre we our brains? What exactly is a thought? Who or what is really in control?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brain<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>features a selection of video works, selected by Read, that map questions about the brain that are both academic and amateur in nature. The sixteen single-channel works will explore a number of themes, including: landscapes of perception and cognition, tangible thoughts, altered states, phantom limbs, TV brains, dream archives, memory files, and the mind-body connection.<\/p>\n

The majority of works in\u00a0The Brain<\/em>\u00a0sit within a construction designed by sculptor Paul Cullen. The design is made from a combination of scaffolding, steel rods, semi-transparent plastic sheets and projection walls. Works are positioned and grouped intuitively and logically to represent different aspects of the brain.<\/p>\n

The Brain<\/em>\u00a0is commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aoteoroa New Zealand in partnership with Te Uru with the assistance of Creative New Zealand. It is presented in conjunction with Circuit’s\u00a0Festival and Symposium 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong>\u00a0Paul Cullen, Megan Dunn, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ronnie Van Hout, Laresa Kosloff, Owen Kydd, Sonya Lacey, Colie Leung, Richard Maloy, Michael Nicholson, Kim Pieters,\u00a0Rachel Shearer, Daniel Von Sturmer, Rainer Weston\u00a0and Layne Waerea.<\/p>\n

Image: Daniel von Sturmer: Small World (Chalk Drawing) (2012) 1\u2019 34\u2019\u2019 Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brain, curated by artist Christina Read, is an exhibition of video works presented within a sculptural installation, designed and constructed by artist Paul Cullen. The Brain could be seen as an idiosyncratic spatial and conceptual diagram of a brain, using video to map questions both academic and amateur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[7],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}