Exhibitions:
no.1 15th March 1998 - 12-4 pm - 65 Portage Rd New Lynn
Artists: Melissa Laing, Ann McWilliams, Phillip McIlhagga, Josephine Reddy
no.2 3rd May 1998 / 2-6 pm / Reuters House / Fort Street / Screen Works on Fort Street
Artists: Paul Judge / Jason Ng / Steve Rood
no.3 5th July 1998 / 1-5 pm / Greys Ave Parking Building / 93 Greys Ave
Artists: Paul Cullen / Graeme Cornwell / Vaughan Gunson / Melissa Laing / Phillip McIlhagga / Ann McWilliams / Paul Millin / Niki Turner / Marcus Williams
no.4 frontage / 13th-19th September 1998 / Balmoral Village
Conveyancing Centre, 624 Dominion Rd. * Judy Darragh
David Baird Pharmacy Ltd. 529 Dominion Rd. * Cherie File
Gallery Upholstery, 602 Dominion Rd. * Lynn Dallison
Rich Undercover, 579 Dominion Rd. * Sarah Coveney
Pharmacy Care, Parklands Shopping Centre. * Karl Chitham
Wazabi, 644 Dominion Rd. * Marie Shannon
Videon, 654 Dominion Rd. * Sarah Sutherland
no.5 Sunday November the 22nd / 85 Portage Rd / New Lynn
Artists: Kim Evans / Intransit / Phillip McIlhagga / Ann McWilliams / Cindy Roddie / Stefan Sporli
Innapropriate Occupations and Transient Preservations : Here Today Gone Tomorrow
The 'here today, gone tomorrow' exhibition project was a series of four outdoor art events. Each event lasted for one day, between 8 am and 8 pm, in the neighborhood parks of Auckland, New Zealand.
The public were able to see art works be set up, exhibited and taken down within the space of 12 hours. People could meet the artists and had the opportunity to experience the process of making and exhibiting art.
The exhibitions were a show case for a cross section of contemporary art and artists in Auckland.
Centenial Park : 31st Januaury 1999
Melissa Laing
Robyn Laing
Peter Madden
Phillip McIlhagga
Ann McWilliams
Manu Scott
Nora Sefton
Jellicoe Park : 14th February 1999
B.K. Anderson & Lorna Bailey
Diane Atkinson
MCM Consultants
Melissa Laing
Peter Madden
Ann McWilliams
Josephine Reddy
Nora Sefton
Coyle Park : 28th February 1999
B.K. Anderson & Lorna Bailey
MCM Consultants
Lyn Dallison
Erin Hutchings
Melissa Laing
Peter Madden
Nora Sefton
Dingle Dell : 14th March 1999
B.K. Anderson & Lorna Bailey
Tim Checkley & Dane Mitchell
MCM Consultants
Erin Hutchings
Melissa Laing
Peter Madden
Phillip McIhagga
Nora Sefton
Stefan Sporli
Nicholas Spratt
Ian John
Our Generation 06.11.2000 - 19.11.2000 - Central Post Office Building : QEII Square
Artists: Sarah Coveney, Dale Fitchett, Andrew Harmann, Melissa Laing, Ann McWilliams
Rezone's methodology
1. space
No exhibition space is permanent. It's span is measured in degrees of time, lengths which a space will last. With Rezone we seek to accelerate those lengths, compressing the exhibition space and it's show into a four hour block. Despite this compression the exhibition space continues. The next exhibition in a new space lays itself over the memory of the first exhibition, lengthening the existence of each exhibition space and each show. The passage of exhibitions changes the spaces used as galleries. The space retains echoes of both the exhibition that took place within it and the other exhibitions within the series. Every exhibition space is changed
2. site
Designating buildings as exhibition zones Rezone places artists, who hold different spheres of thought or argument, within them. These buildings are not pre-made exhibition spaces yet these types of buildings have housed galleries in New Zealand before. The Warehouse, The Office, The Carpark and other empty spaces around the city have all been utilised by exhibitors. The companies which own these spaces use art to increase their perceived worth, selecting well named artists to display. In reply to this Rezone uses these spaces to increase its perceived worth. Tangible evidence used as measuring points on a scale.
3. transition
You can never quite place the beginning of a transition. The elements of Rezone are making transitions; between student and artist, building and exhibition space, temporary and permanent. This first show of Rezone is a symbol of the beginning of Rezone yet it is more probably the middle. A group of exhibitions, writings, and artists moving within transitions.
4. paradox
Rezone holds a strong position, an attitude of openness towards exhibitions and spaces. This position is a paradoxical one for it retains a belief in a system of exhibition which Rezones method also demonstrates against. The artists exhibiting are interested in exhibiting outside the system. However they are still operating within the system of exhibition. The effort of removing oneself from a system is at the same time an effort of placing oneself firmly within it. The artists and organisers exhibiting are creating opportunities to exhibit; strongly holding the position that new artist should have many opportunities. Yet the organisers are a committee that chooses just like other galleries and systems. This is a mix of motives and methods which creates a position of paradox. The awareness that a paradox is operating does not stop the paradox it only enhances it.
Melissa Laing, 1998