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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

Creative New Zealand under Stephen Wainwright finally succeeds in destroying Downstage after nearly 50 years trying

This is a picture of Stephen Wainwright, Chief Executive (Pou Whakahaere) of Creative New Zealand. Here is his statement: “As a young nation at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean our arts help to illustrate our lives with new layers of meaning and fresh perspectives… life is personal and experiencing

to know how to undo something you must first know how it was put together: Shima on 95bfm, first broadcast 11 September 2013

an example of doing that is really an example of undoing – here, from the puff for an exhibition at WKV Stuttgart called ‘Giving Form to the Impatience of Liberty’ featuring the artists Manuela Beck, Banu Cennetoglu / Yasemin Özcan, Stefan Constantinescu,

The exhibition’s point of origin rests in the younger forms and discourses of a (re)politicization of the arts, which are meant to be probed in terms of their heterogeneity and antagonisms. These are artistic practices which subject the aesthetic utopias of modernism that were said to have floundered

Erkka Nissinen in an example of undoing – here, Arnold Schoenberg

Erkka Nissinen in an example of undoing – here, the social contract

Tilaa massa tilassa massa litas…

join the undoing movement and undo poverty, property, hunger, waste, debt, hurt, wrong, and all your petty mistakes

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hearing Orhan Pamuk talking to Robert Harrison (link to audio) – Pamuk, the Nobel Laureate, self-confessedly conservative and superficial – superficial enough that winning the Nobel makes him happy – conservative in wanting to keep the language of Turkey ‘as it is’ – the ‘dictionary of the streets’ – and not turkify or alter it