Oh.No.Sumo is an experimental design collective.
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- - FAX EXHIBITION - -
8 - 29 April, 2011, Gallery OneCurated by João Ribas
Opening Thursday 7 April 5.30pm.
A travelling exhibition co-organised by the Drawing Center, New York and ICI (Independent Curators International), New York, and circulated by ICI.
FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. The ongoing exhibition project features over 300 works using the fax machine as a medium. At ST PAUL St FAX will include a selection of the accumulated faxes to date as well as new fax works by New Zealand contributors invited to participate.Faxes by nearly 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center, New York in 2009 form the core of the exhibition, including seminal examples of early telecommunications art. Having toured to over ten venues the FAX project now consists of more than 300 works. At ST PAUL St a selection of the transmitted pages will be archived or displayed together with the active fax machine, which will receive new faxes from the invited New Zealand contributors throughout the show. The result—an ongoing cumulative project—is a show concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, and mediation. Here, reproducible yet erratic production via the fax machine displaces traditional notions of the hand‚ still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and foregrounds the role of drawing as a generative process.
New Zealand contributors include: Alterations, Nick Austin, David Clegg, Fiona Connor, Paul Cullen, Richard Francis, Fiona Jack, Monique Jansen, Tessa Laird, Dane Mitchell, Seung Yul Oh, OH.NO.SUMO, Nova Paul, Yuk King Tan, Narrow Gauge, Jonty Valentine, Luke Wood.
The exhibition is curated by João Ribas, curator of The Drawing Center in New York, and is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue co-published by ICI and The Drawing Center. The catalogue can be purchased online via ICI http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/index.php/publications/ -
- - SANNZ SUMO PRIZE - -
Recently SANNZ had their annual end of year celebration and we produced the new “SANNZ Sumo Prize for Dedication” which was awarded to two deserving committee members who have given their all this year. Well done to Rachel Dawkins and Charlotte Brennan for being so awesome in 2010. To see more of SANNZ go to: www.sannz.net.nz -
Our entry for the Queens Wharf Design Competition:
Auckland IS the city of sails. A city of sailing! It therefore seems legitimately obvious that the representation of Auckland could only ever take the form of a sail and lets face it, nothing says isthmus paradise like sail cloth.
The use of more than one sail form depicts a yacht race. A yacht
race on Queens Wharf. Which one will win? Well, none of them,
they are buildings……Each building takes the form of either a billowing spinnaker or
tacking mainsail encapsulating the upwind and downwind
nature of a yacht race. The space within each sail is at such a
height (15m) as to potentially allow for up to 5 occupiable
floors. Sails (buildings) can also be added and removed based
on requirements. This is great.The sails are tensile membrane structures that are supported
by a light weight steel mast and skeleton and connected to the
wharf itself. These tent-like (that is to say “sail-like”) membranes
are made of a lightweight and translucent material,
which will allow light to pass through creating an illuminating at
night, which in turn creates a lantern effect. These lanterns
will appear to float along the water beneath the wharf. The
chiaroscuro will be worthy of a Caravaggio painting.We do not claim this idea is entirely new. The use of sails for
inspiration in form takes precedence from buildings such as Jorn
Utzon’s Sydney Opera House. However, that is in Australia and
this is in New Zealand. There is also the Burl Al Arab in Dubai,
but again, our scheme is in New Zealand so instantly more
awesome.This is quite a great idea mostly due to the fact that sails are awesome.
Auckland IS the city of sails! There is nothing quite like a
sail to depict a city of sailing. Auckland: Sail of the century. -
- - 20 UNDER 40 ENTRY - -
Our entry for the 20 Under 40 Competition 2009, run by the Architecture Centre in Wellington. The competition called for a future development of the promenade on Wellingtons waterfront. The aim was to create an urban space for Play.
For more information: http://architecture.org.nz/2009/03/08/20-under-40-and-the-winner-is/
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