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From Brian
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www.nzedge.com
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Sauers
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand
headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The
Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The News Star, Guardian, Daily Mail, Travel
+ Leisure, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg,
Irish Times, American Medical News, The Independent, Samay Live, News Miner
and New York Times include:
Peter
Jackson, Comic-Con star, praises fans enthusiasm; hopes it will
rub off on Hollywood execs
Eleanor
Catton, 23, author, in Iowa writing "fantastical" novel
on gold rush Irish Times
Kevin
Roberts, nzedge.com
co-founder, awarded Honorary Doctorate from Lancaster University
Jonathan
Porritt, "sustainability ninja", leaves UK's
independent watchdog SDC after nine years
Jenna
Sauers, 23, model and pseudonymous fashion insider reveals
identity Guardian
Fiordland
earthquake, strongest in 78 years, shakes NZ 12 inches closer to
Australia Bloomberg
Hew
Mcleod, Dunedin historian and world-renowned Sikh scholar dies,
77 Samay Live
Carol
Diebel, former Te Papa director, to head UA Museum of the North,
Alaska
NZ
Wine Industry's "growing glut" of Sauvignon Blanc
threatens Australia's wine exports
Team
New Zealand win "difficult" MedCup Sardinia Trophy on
Mistral Independent on Sunday
Wellington,
place where film geeks satisfy cinematic cravings The Boston Globe
Cheryl
McKnight's 8cm-high Maltese pup potential Guinness Record Los
Angeles Times
Ivan
Yukich, Brancott, Montana wine "visionary"; NZ's
"star rising" The News Star
Classic
Campers' VW Kombis make for "up-close and personal"
travel Los Angeles Times
Anna
Paquin in LA's Gjelina's, not nervous, but "offbeat and
wry" Daily Mail
Kauri
Cliffs' The Lodge; Cape Kidnappers' The Farm, voted no.1 and 2 in
region by Travel + Leisure
P750
XTOL, Hamilton-made aircraft, to rival Cessna over Alaska Alaska
Journal of Commerce
New
Zealand enticing medical destination for US doctors seeking
change American Medical News
CONCEPT
MUSCLE: JULIAN DASHPHER 19602009
Our friend Julian Daspher, artist, died on 30 July, aged 49, in
Auckland. He was loved by many and will be greatly missed. What he
leaves is his art his early paintings and a substantial body of
conceptual art exploring location and art itself. Julian signed up with
nzedge early, a decade ago. He was already making the local/global trip.
Curator Christina
Barton has written that Julian had "the unique
perspective of attending to an internationalist art history from a
distance, enabling him to devise strategies to work around his
geographical isolation whilst simultaneously articulating its
effects." He undertook a project in three editions of the premier
international contemporary art magazine, Artforum.
"Julian was not at ease with the institutions of art, and rightly
so, maintaining a distance which was energising. Distance becomes us,
and, in 1992 he inserted an exhibition-as-advertisement in Artforum
magazine. Artfrom New Zealand comically defied the politics and
constraints of the one-way conversation, and marked out the
possibilities of the self made guy" (Natasha
Conland). Julian was a connector, a hustler in Texan boots,
an internationalist from West Auckland. The list of his international
exhibitions are the story of his working life: Trieste, Leiden, Topolove,
Canberra, Aachen, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Kluzι, Saskatchewan,
Sydney, Versa, Copenhagen, Tokyo, London, Marfa, Berlin, Utrecht,
Rotterdam, Houston, Oxford, Los Angeles, Athens, Brussels, Sioux City,
San Luis Obispo, Lincoln, New York City, Wichita, Melbourne, Oslo,
Birmingham, Vienna, Basel, Toowoomba, Den Haag, Durban, Staten Island. A
true edgster, Julian worked from remote locations. Of his 2005 Iowa
exhibition, Larry
Taylor wrote "Sioux City is just off of about everyone's
map, even in an era of MapQuest. Perhaps that, ironically, makes it the
place to begin reasserting some concept muscle: less hampered by the
standard coastal baggage, such a locale offers its artistic self tabula
rasa." Indeed. And just to confound the notion of what a conceptual
artist is or should be, Julian was a big fan, nay, a believer, in the
Warriors aka the Auckland-based rugby league team that delivers ecstasy
and agony in equal measures. During his illness Julian would fortify
himself with a video of Ruben
Wiki hammering a Roosters player ("he's in
Disneyland!"). Big Ruben visited Julian in hospital a few weeks
before his death, with the message "stay strong and keep
going." He did, and his art ensures he will. Tears and cheers to
Marie and Leo.
 BEATRICE
TINSLEY QUEEN OF THE COSMOS
Cosmologist, violinist, teacher, mentor and nzedge Hero,
Beatrice Tinsley, is the subject of a new 20-part series on Radio New
Zealand Concert called The
Stars are Comforting: The Letters of Beatrice Tinsley.
Produced by Adrienne Baron, the series airs Wednesday nights at 7pm, and is
based on the internationally-recognised scientist's letters to her family.
Beatrice Tinsley was a truly extraordinary New Zealander whose work on how
the evolution of galaxies affects the origin and size of the universe had a
profound effect on scientific knowledge. But tragically she died of cancer
in 1981 aged 40. Bob Brockie's tribute to Tinsley's life in the Dominion
Post this week encapsulated her as "daughter of a
one-time mayor of New Plymouth, she overcame almost insuperable odds to
become a scientist and professor of astronomy at Yale University." For
further information on this stellar New Zealander's story be sure to have a
look Christine Cole Catley's fantastic biography Bright
Star: Beatrice Hill Tinsley, Astronomer.
NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK
 RECLAIMING
THE PAST
LONDON, September 10 October 10 2009: 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums
Inside the Artist'. October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street,
Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL.
Artists Shigeyuki Kihara, George Nuku, Rosanna Raymond and Lisa Reihana
present mixed media and performance work exploring the idea of the
ethnographic gaze in a major exhibition the first of its kind in
London next month at the October Gallery. 'ethKnowcentrix: Museums
Inside the Artist' reconsiders the spaces of meeting, looking and
representing across cultures, and explores how the ethnographic gaze has
been reciprocated and challenged. "With acerbic wit, these works
promise to radically subvert the European legacy of museum
classification, reclaim popular imagery of Pacific Island culture, and
offer fresh perspectives for a shared global future."
AUCKLAND,
21 August, 7pm, CBD-Connect, Rendevous Hotel
YMCA hosts its inaugural 'CBD-Connect' fundraiser event with nzedge.com
co-founder Kevin Roberts as guest speaker. There will also be music
performances by Tama Waipara and a poetry recital by 'slam poet'
Courtney Meredith. For more info or to book a table, contact Michelle
Delahunty at the YMCA, email michelle.delahunty@nzymca.com
or phone 09 306 3750.
LOS
ANGELES, until 29 August, Wall Drawings Group Exhibiton
1301PE gallery hosts 'Wall Drawings', a new exhibition featuring work by
Angela Bulloch, Kate Ericsson, Mel Ziegler, Jorge Mιndez Blake, and New
Zealander John Reynolds. Visit 1301PE website
for further details.
Here are the Top 10 titles for July:
- Flare
A Ski Trip, NFU short film 1977 Funky promotional
doco featuring snow 'ski ballet'
- The
Leading Edge, feature film, 1987 Extreme 80's
thrill-seekers pushing it to the edge
- Peter
Snell Athlete, NFU short film 1964 800m Gold
Medalist's story leading up to Tokyo
- Britten:
Backyard Visionary, doco 1993 Story of maverick
motorcycle designer John Britten
- Trio
at the Top, doco 2001 NZ motor-racing legends McLaren,
Hulme and Amon
- Games
74, NFU film 1974 Chronicle of the Christchurch
Commonwealth Games
- Gloss,
TV series 1987 Yuppies, shoulder-pads, Walkmen; 80s cult
"glitter soap"
- Play
School, TV series 19751990 Iconic educational
programme for preschoolers
- Kaikohe
Demolition, feature film 2004 Florian Habicht's doco
about a Northland derby
- Bred
to Win, NFU short film 1968 An insight into thoroughbred
racehorse breeding in NZ
 STEINLAGER
ON THE EDGE
The "They're drinking our beer here" ads for Steinlager in the
1980s were a benchmark for internationalism-from-the-edge. Cultural cringe
be damned, in the fanciest bars and swankiest hotels in New York, LA and
London, "they" were drinking "our" beer. The brand
wandered off in the late 90s, but has made a comeback with Steinlager Pure
("the taste of paradise in a bottle") and now with Steinlager Edge
"the beer for people not prepared to compromise on any aspect of
their full lives. Steinlager Edge is built on a belief that finding balance
in life isn't about doing less, but about doing everything." Perhaps
Lion have provided the basis for a new tourism proposition for New Zealand:
Pure Edge. The TV ads are a little, er, metrosexual, for me, but I'd like to
like to try a bottle or three. Thanks Lion level 14, 100 Willis St,
Wellington.
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