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Jane Venis and Hannah Joynt Solo Exhibition

    April 8  – 12, 2020
    2020년 4월 8 – 12일
    Flex Space C, CICA Museum

    Dual

    Dual is a multi-media solo exhibition that include video works, drawings and audio recorded in real time as the drawings were being made. In our work we address the question “How do we collaborate successfully with two very different creative languages in order to communicate, play and explore new territories within a contemporary context?”

    Although the process is largely spontaneous, the drawings can also be ‘read’ as a narrative, and the performance has a theatrical storytelling quality to it. We all have different non-verbal modes of expressing ourselves. In our performances we are initiating dialogue with each other in our own individual creative languages. How might a mark be interpreted? How might sound by interpreted? As the notion of improvisation and spontaneous expression is common to both drawing and music/sound performance this videos are our combined expression of these questions. In Dual we are able to remain based in our separate disciplines yet generate new work collaboratively. Inevitably this pushes our individual practices to otherwise uncharted territory and lead us to deeper understandings of our own and each other’s work.

    In the videos filmed in real time in the DSA gallery in Dunedin New Zealand, Jane plays a variety of instruments in an improvisational way and Hannah responds to the music interpreting the sound as a large scale drawing. However, there is a moment at some point during the performance when Jane has started to respond to Hannah’s mark making, as the drawing has the ability to ‘draw out’ phrases from the instruments in ‘dual improvisation.’ Each of the video works are accompanied by the resulting drawing made during the filmed performance.

    Our collaborative practice developed further during an artist residency at the Buinho Creative Hub in Portugal in 2019. There we experimented with longer durations and different formats and incorporated a wider range of instruments. The three panel drawing and audio work Messejana Jantar was made during the residency and reflects this development. This led to our latest work Mid-Canterbury Live a durational drawing and audio work created live in The Ashburton Art Gallery in New Zealand in December 2019.

    Hannah Joynt is a contemporary drawing practitioner who works in a range of media, processes and scales. Her studio practice is concerned with researching notions of ‘drawing as a language.’ Jane Venis a musician, per­formance artist and maker of sculptural musical instruments. Her work is often playful and experimental and engagement with the viewer is critical to her practice.  They have both exhibited solo shows in Public Galleries in New Zealand and have been selected for international juried group exhibitions – both individually and in their collaborative practice, including Lines of Thought at CICA Museum in 2018.

    Visual interpretation of sound and audio interpretation of mark making is a continuing exploration of ‘drawing as a language. ’ In September 2019 they took part in the Buinho Creative Hub Residency in Portugal where they further developed their experimental  practice. Hannah and Jane have collaborated together over many years, including teaching drawing together at The College of Art, Design and Architecture at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand.

     

    Jane Venis and Hannah Joynt, Work in Progress – Mid Cantabury Live