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    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
  •  Installation Shots From: Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
    Gaiety Is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union
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Previous Exhibitions - The Blue Oyster Arts Space

2008 show highlights
Karin Hofko
An experimental German media artist currently living in New Zealand. On and On filled the whole upper gallery with a rotating video installation. On three TV screens images from “ Tron”, “Sherlock Holmes”, and “What\'s up Doc?” were manipulated as an experiment in the many possibilities of changing the order of a video sequence. “Rabbitpad” and “Mrs Keckeis” showed different elements of routine and repetition of everyday life. “Principal Hammer” demonstrated the irritating nature of inexorable procedures.

Graduate ShowA small and exciting selection of the 2007 graduates of Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
Aroha Novak used video and cardboard sculpture to replicate the 2007 Baghdad bombings to critique how mass media manipulates imagery. Jenna Todd explored through three computer screens the different extremes of material which are available on the website “Youtube”.
Alissia Holzer looked at the taming and commodification of nature. Aliki Boufis manipulated our visual perception and relation to space through the projection of video playback on the gallery walls.

Haley Williams
Bang Bang BangLetting loose with a paintball gun, Auckland-based artist Haley Williams turned the lower gallery into a battle zone and a place for reflection. The white box was a safe point for referance and resistance; this was a painting massacre. Whether prepared or not, the viewer was made aware...

Ducters and Muses
Margaret DawsonEngaging recycled domestic materials in a response to the utilitarian attachments of the Blue Oyster, Margaret Dawson’s Ducters and Muses induced a searching, looking and peering action she associates with photography.
Tubercle and glow-worm like protrusions with photographic elements revealed other dimensions while an appliance with its own particular rhythm abruptly returned the viewer to the here and now.

The Blue Room13 artists were asked to make work for the Blue Oyster Gallery in response to ‘The Blue Room’, a famous house in Dunedin where Spiritualists conducted séances in the 1920s.
Some are skeptics, some believers, but all made work that raised questions about the fascination with the psychic that haunts us now.
The ‘Blue Room’ revealed demonic chairs, spirit photography, Samoan tarot, telepathic communication in drawings and glances, and more.

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