Author Archives: Janet Lilo
The Normandie Research Project part one: Walking city to city 2014
by Janet Lilo
My French is terrible. I did study it in third and fourth form, but all I can remember is playing Salade de fruit. I also had it in my head that it was one of those non-subjects, because nobody I knew could speak it in New Zealand and these places were far, far away to even matter. This was also the case for Japanese class. Nobody close to me had even caught a plane before – myself included. Well, the […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Artwalking, Janet Lilo, Le Havre, Normandie, Rouen
little text 2014 – 2015
by Janet Lilo
little text, a direct response to the curatorial notion of ‘making visible’, considers the documentary notion of distance in response to a controversial photo shoot with a Walters Prize nominee. The work utilises a phrase from a text — written by Caterina Riva and published on http://www.hashtag500words.com — that considers the experience of a performance re-staged for the 2014 Walters Prize through social media across vast geographical distances. This drawing installation similarly considers the use of technology as a form […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Franklin Arts Centre, Janet Lilo, little text, Maiking Visible exhibition
Buchanan 2014
by Janet Lilo
Suburban Floral Association (Monique Redmond and Tanya Eccleston) THE FLORAL SHOW LOCAL EXOTIC at Fresh Gallery Otara Miss Red & Tanya are an extreme duo of arty goodness and I am very thankful to have been invited by them to be a part of this show. From the beginning our meetings were list ticking and productive – not so much from my end, but theirs. I can’t tell you how nice it is to work with artists who are ambitious and […]
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AUSTRONESIAN SYMPOSIUM / NOUMEA 2014
by Janet Lilo
AUSTRONESIAN SYMPOSIUM MAY 24 – 25 TJIBAOU CULTURAL CENTRE / PACIFIC ARTS ASSOCIATION Dear Austronesian Symposium people, I told a few of you that I would send some documentation from the conference. Three months later I have kept my promise. Sorry for the wait – I have been on a series of internet strikes, kept busy with teaching, art making and spending time with family. Unfortunately the image sizes are too large to email and this was the easiest way to […]
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TEN
by Janet Lilo
Dear friends, I am very happy to share my tenth birthday celebration with you. Yes, I have decided to have a birthday for my art practice – in human years you could triple that and then add two (soon). The actual celebration is not a physical event. It is an acknowledgement of self reflection and my thoughts of recent surround all the great people in my life. People who have helped and encouraged me along the way – because it […]
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My friend Tessa King 2014
by Janet Lilo
TESSA KING I got a call from you when she passed away so I drove straight to Bellvue we hugged tightly for a long time and with hands on both my shoulders eyes still filled with tears you said: Janet, you have the perfect nose The first time I visited your house we were thirteen I had the most fucked up experience with the school counselor who probed issues I couldn’t deal with at the time – so I ran […]
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Tote bag edition 2013
by Janet Lilo
COLLECT A TOTE! Photo: Luke McPake TOTE PROCESS PROCESS 2 PROCESS 1
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Engagement 2013
by Janet Lilo
Engagement 2013 After having worked back to back on large-scale art projects, it was nice to be able to submit an experimental video for Offstage 5. Engagement is a snippet taken from a Fijian/ Indian engagement ceremony that I had shot in May this year. The groom approached me to make a video for him and his future wife sometime in 2012. Usually I would not accept work like this, generally because my linear editing skills are not that great. […]
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