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MIC Toi Rerehiko presents Pick Up Styx by Raewyn Turner and ReSense and FLAP, a collaborative cross sensory presentation by Raewyn Turner and Canadian electronics artist, Diana Burgoyne.

This collection is on display at MIC Gallery 321 K Road from 3 September – 8 October. 

This interactive exhibit utilises video, smell, sound, electronics and digital media in a collaborative process between two cultures and two communities. All three pieces explore issues of human relationship and environmental concerns, focusing on the under-explored olfactory sense, Raewyn’s most notable practice blended with Diana’s extensive electronic experience.

RE/SENSE was Co-Produced with the Banff New Media Institute 2009, exhibited and presented in MuVi2, in the Third Congress 2009 Synaesthesia: Science & Art, in Granada, Spain, and in Interactive Futures : Stereo, Vancouver 2009.The piece examines synthetic synaesthesia and anaesthesia of place. In collaboration with international commercial perfumer, Louise Crouch, RE/SENSE utilises a selection of synthetic fragrances relating synaesthetically to the colours of green.

In contrast, FLAP explores authentic body odour to convey a theme of disruption of constraints imposed on perception by culture.

Pick Up Styx serves a culminating performance, inviting audiences to participate in a dialogue enquiring into the ciphers of various perfumes created since the year 2001.

While both Pick Up Styx and RE/SENSE have been presented internationally, FLAP will premier in New Zealand as a multisensory interactive electronic installation.

Raewyn Turner

Raewyn Turner is a leading practitioner in performance and intermedia with an expanding international reputation, having presented at ISEA2008 and Granada in 2009. Her works have also been displayed at the New Zealand International Film Festival, Te Papa, Los Angeles MOCA and in Australia, Argentina, Germany, Italy and Canada.
Diana Burgoyne refers to herself as an electronic folk artist. Her performances and installations have been exhibited in Montreal, Toronto, New York, France, Holland, and Estonia.

She has been the artist in residence at the Surrey Art Gallery’s Tech Lab, participated in SCANZ in New Zealand and has just finished working on a work entitled “Audio Quilt” as artist in residence at the Roundhouse Community Centre. She was awarded the 2009 Fleck Fellowship by the Banff Centre for the Arts and has taught a class entitled “Creative Electronics” at Emily Carr University of Art and Design since 1998.

Pick Up Styx, ReSense and FLAP

What: Raewyn Turner (NewZealand) and Diana Burgoyne (Canada)

Where: MIC Gallery 321 K Road

When: 3 September – 8 October.