No. NS38 (2024): Journal of New Zealand Studies  Art and Aotearoa New Zealand: Cultures, Controversies and Histories Editors: Edward Hanfling, Hilary Radner, Mark Stocker https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/issue/view/1015 (permanent link)

“Singular-Plural” David Green, moving image installation, 343 George Street, Dunedin, August 2024   David Green   Disarticulated Cinema and the Human Predicament   Wednesday 11 September 2024 5:00 for 5:30–7:00   In this talk, I will discuss my practice-led PhD project, which I describe as “disarticulated cinema.” This approach involves a reciprocal system of writing […]

See Leoni Schmidt, “Anatomy Lessons: Michele Beevors as Eco-Political Agent,” Lagoonscapes 4, no. 1:  181–199. Abstract: This article responds to the large scale sculptural work by eco-political artist Michele Beevors, whose work has recently been extensively exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, and Austria. She brings her audience close to the tragedies of eco-extinction and the […]

  NOW IN PAPERBACK List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Italian Neorealism and the Emergence of the Male Melodrama: Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952) 2. The Migration of Male Melodrama into Non-Western Cultures: Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy (1955–59) and “Fourth Cinema” 3. Hollywood Melodrama as a Vehicle for Self-Projection: Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and […]

Leoni Schmidt   Power, Menace, and Care   Animal and Human Intersections in the Work of  Three Contemporary Artists   Jane Alexander, Roger Ballen, and Michele Beevors     This seminar focuses on the recent work of artists Jane Alexander, Roger Ballen, and Michele Beevors. Animals feature large in their exhibitions to address the fraught […]

Fox, Alistair. Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema. London/New York: Anthem Press, 2022. [236 pages] Fox, Alistair. “‘They Came to Me in the Night’: A Midnight Sanctuary by the Torchlight of Memory.” In Wesley John Fourie: They Came to Me in the Night, edited by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner, NP. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Wesley […]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Special Issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies Art and Aotearoa | New Zealand: Cultures, Controversies and Histories Edited by Edward Hanfling, Hilary Radner, and Mark Stocker This proposed special issue is an expression of our desire to provide a forum for scholars focusing on New Zealand art history, while highlighting […]

Wesley John Fourie and Ngā Roma Poa: Green-screened Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held 3-24 February 2023 at Wave Project Space, RDS Gallery Publications (Dunedin: 2023). Occasional Essays Series, edited by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner. For a PDF of this issue, click HERE!