by Janet Lilo
CROUCHING BOYS Inspired by old sporting photographs found on Google image search, the Crouching Boys are based on three Washington wrestlers from the late 50’s and early 60’s. Left to right is Buddy, Steve and Dick. They’re posing for a team photo that was probably destined for a year book or school corridor wall and not the internet. For that reason I am intrigued by the innocence and display of masculinity in their stance and the fact they […]
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by Janet Lilo
BANANARAMA | WORDS BY LANA LOPESI PHOTO DOCUMENTATION BY MICHAEL LEWIS | FOR PAPERBOY MAGAZINE SPECIAL THANKS TO THE COMMISSIONERS: AUCKLAND COUNCIL + K-ROAD BUSINESS ASSOCIATION / ANNA + ROSS Earlier this year, the light poles on the Karangahape Road overbridge changed their casings from black and white lalava designs (by artist Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi) to yellow banana bunches towering six metres over the street. At night, the poles light up, each of them blaring a blue neon phrase. ‘Wait for me’ is […]
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by Janet Lilo
Dear Janet On behalf of CIRCUIT and The Physics Room, Christchurch I am writing to invite you to be part of a curatorial project timed to co-incide with the upcoming New Zealand election on 17 September. Party Political Broadcast invites 8 artists to each make a 30 second single channel video work inspired by the format of the televised party political broadcast. Each video will be streamed on the CIRCUIT website in the month of September leading up to the election, […]
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by Janet Lilo
Auckland Festival of Photography Commission Supported by the festival, Baker Douglas Photobooks and Creative New Zealand. With thanks to Julia Dirkin, Elaine Smith, Shahidul Alam and Danny Simmons! _ My dad’s hands were big and strong. Often covered in grease from a day’s work polishing metal. If Iever saw him, he’d try and flick me twenty dollar bills – leaving bits of black on the notes where fingers touched. To be honest, I never cared about money – and I still don’t. […]
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by Janet Lilo
Nobody puts Baby in a corner 2017, Shout Whisper Wail! The 2017 Chartwell Show (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2017. Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 2017. Supported by the Chartwell Trust. Curated by Natasha Conland. Special Thanks to Mark Schafer for the excellent advice and neon translations. Jim Sharfe and Johnno from Pro Sign Services for being pro with every step. And Kheang Chea for his beautiful master neon glass bending skills. INSTA PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT […]
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by Janet Lilo
——————————– CURATED BY IOANA GORDON-SMITH ———————————– Dear Friends, I have more words to come at some point, but lets start with a few pictures first. Thank you to everyone who supported this show – the volunteers and staff who installed it, front of house, public programming team, education team, guest performers, practitioners, speakers, participating public and ladies of the publication! And Ioana Gordon-Smith, for being an excellent collaborator and true champion. Thank you Creative New Zealand for your amazing support Documentation: Sam Harnett / unless otherwise stated TE URU […]
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by Janet Lilo
Université du Havre (Service culturel) 07/11/15 Le Havre A Pussy juice a day keep a doctor a way — that was his status update in April 2014. I read it when I was snooping on the internet. From public posting observations, he seems to be obsessed with football and fond of Manchester United, including short videos that are supposed to be funny but are actually offensive. Anyway, none of this bothers me and I still have a soft spot for him […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Galerie Martainvile de l'Edsadhar, Le Havre, Rouen, Université du Havre
by Janet Lilo
Walking encounters: found objects, people and situations Modes of protection – for self and from others, either as gifts or potential threats Black comedyPoetry and music (lyrics) Black M to Victor Hugo Shopping mall research @ Monoprix Flying into Guangzhou 231015DRAWING | Story telling | Practice High visibility vest gifted by a concerned French man. I stayed at his country cottage – night one. He told me: It is not fashion, but maybe it saves your life? His neighbour was […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Auckland, Drawings, Le Havre, Normandie, Rouen
by Janet Lilo
Mission: Walk from Wellington airport to Chop Suey Hui presentation venue and create an artist talk along the way. In the end I decided not to present these photo’s for my talk and opted show images from my walk in France. On the way I picked up some Polaroid film and got the crowd to participate by making Polaroid drawings during the talk to take home. Many thanks to Nina Tonga and Bridget Rewiti for inviting me to speak at […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Artist talk, Artspace NZ, Artspace Sydney, Chop Suey Hui, Kava club, Sydney airport, talk the walk, Wellington Airport
Janet Lilo visual artist