S/F will be closed over summer and will re-open in March 2012 in a new space. More details to follow.
Saturday 17 December at S/F Xin Cheng will present a one-day installation titled Re-fried Beans from 12-5pm. This is the last day we will open in 2011.
In 2012 S/F will relocate to a new space in Newton, Auckland.
More details to follow in the new year.
Xin Cheng: Mixtures (detail), 2011
Image by Asumi Mizuo
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In 2012 S/F will relocate to a new space in Newton, Auckland.
More details to follow in the new year.
Saturday 19 November, 2-3pm at S/F
Range of Convergence: Part 3 (artillery of the heart)
A workshop by Louise Tu’u
The squat appearance of the plinth that supported the projector was one of fortitude and beauty.
Range of Convergence: Part 3 (artillery of the heart) combines text and image. In the first ever workshop to be held at S/F, artillery of the heart builds incrementally on the milestones of Range of Convergence: Part 1 (dress rehearsal). Participants are encouraged to bring their own objects and find ways to engage with them using writing, experience and replay.
If you are interested in participating please RSVP by Friday 18 November to admin@splitfountain.org
Please note that limited spaces are available.
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Saturday 5 November
Range of Convergence: Part 2 (exhibition opens)
Playing out an ongoing interest in the facts in fiction and the fiction in facts, Part 2 of Range of Convergence features an exhibition of Kelvin Soh’s camera-free photographic reproductions of found theatre ephemera. Exhibition continues until 26 November.
Image by Sait Akkirman
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Launch party
Thursday 27 October 6pm at S/F
split/fountain is pleased to announce the launch of r/p/m by Paul Cullen
Publication design by Jayme Yen & Narrow Gauge
Photography by Asumi Mizuo
Essays by Richard Dale, Melissa Laing, Tessa Laird, Ruth Watson
Published by split/fountain
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In a time when there are plenty of attempts to highlight the ‘uniqueness’ of the book as an endangered object – to play-up its arty capabilities – to foster home-groups for the crafty book arts (which are not without their charms for anthropologists of the present) – here is a publication project which knows how to place the idea of the book-object precisely within the materialities of print history, while also letting it float on the currents and eddies of digital waterways. Shadowed by the virtual, and flecked by drifting data, r/p/m Paul Cullen enacts the knowledge that printed matter is all about organizational specifics, and particularities of effect. It relativizes the shuffle of text and image between the formats of magazine, catalogue, book, inventory, dossier. Propelled as it is by hypotheses, models, tests, charts, cross-sections, circulation systems, and theatres of scientific research, Paul Cullen’s art is well served by this publication, which dissects the book as object and distributional event through its adoption of the exposed spine and interchangeable, differently coloured, gatefold covers. (Allan Smith)
Image by Paul Cullen
This publication was made possible through support from Creative New Zealand, AUT University & Jane Sanders Art Agent
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Range of Convergence: Louise Tu’u and Kelvin Soh
19 October – 26 November 2011
Performance: Tuesday 18 October, 7pm as part of Artweek Auckland, 2011
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With early 20th century Auckland theatre ephemera as material, Louise Tu’u and Kelvin Soh explore fiction, indexicality and dramatisation in their respective mediums of printed matter and performance.
Exhibition continues through 26 November with the following schedule:
Tuesday 18 October
Part 1 : Dress Rehearsal
7pm
Saturday 5 November
Part 2 : Exhibition of Printed Matter opens
Saturday 19 November
Part 3 : Workshop
2 – 3pm
Saturday 26 November
Part 4 : Wrap Party
4.30 – 6.30pm
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S/F is pleased to be participating in the 2011 New York Art Book Fair.
Representing split/fountain publishing, Michael Lett, The National Grid, and selected artist and design editions by Xin Cheng, Paul Cullen, Nell May, Louise Menzies, Jeff Ramsey and Chad Kloepfer.
With support from Creative New Zealand
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Evan: A child typeface by Nell May
Released as part of ‘There was once a typographer in all of us’
Download Evan here
Nell May: There was once a typographer in all of us
17 September – 15 October 2011
Preview: Friday 16 September, 5.30
“As children, our perception of the letters in the alphabet is still soft-boiled. Often it is an aspect of a letter’s form, rather than its formation as a whole, that guides how we start to assemble each character. There was once a typographer in all of us presents the typeface Evan, based on lettering by children aged 5-8″ (NM)
A limited edition silk-screen print and publication will be available.
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split/fountain newspaper (section 1) launch
Images by Kaan Hiini, courtesy of Design Assembly
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split/fountain newspaper (section 1) launch
As part of We Can Create
Thursday 25 August, 5.30pm at S/F
There are 10,000 in each bundle, all destined for one of the most information-starved areas on the planet. They will get there with the help of helium gas, pumped from cylinders to fill giant plastic balloons, the vehicles for this exercise in paper bombardment. Each bag of leaflets has its own timing mechanism, readied to burst open at different intervals and scatter the information over a wide area.
Contributors: Henry Babbage, Emmet Byrne, James Goggin, Fiona Jack, Narrow Gauge, Richard Reid, onne terre, Mylinh Trieu Nguyen, We Should Practice, Blaine Western, Luke Willis Thompson
Vivre Sa Vie by Mylinh Trieu Nguyen
With special thanks to:
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Launch of The National Grid #7
Friday 12 August, 6pm
“Not quite ‘magazine’ and not quite ‘academic journal’, The National Grid attempts to chart a path through the murky wasteland between the professional practice of graphic design and its troublesome academic manifestations.
In The National Grid #7 we acknowledge our responsibility for maintaining a civil defence for graphic design. We endeavour to reassure all members by providing a safe gathering point for assessing significant design related historical incidents. Episodes documented in this issue include: trespassers will be prosecuted by Luke Wood, some notes on dots and their reception by David Bennewith, a report on publishing by Jonty Valentine, a southern orientation by Tim J. Veling and Jessica Halliday, the best of best wishes from Tracey Williams & Taarati Taiaroa, as well as a research outcome sell-off by Dane Mitchell.”
The National Grid was first published in March 2006. Edited and designed by Luke Wood and Jonty Valentine, it is independently published in New Zealand, and is distributed internationally. The National Grid receives funding from Creative New Zealand.
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Surface Characteristics
New work by Xin Cheng, Clara Chon, Claire Cooper, Asumi Mizuo
Organised by Asumi Mizuo
29 July – 20 August
Preview: Friday 29 July, 6pm
Image by Claire Cooper
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S/F is pleased to present a new film and print edition by Louise Menzies
18 June – 23 July 2011
Preview: Friday 17 June 6pm
“The most I can do is try to repeat what took place in a different zone in mental terms, trying to distinguish between what made up a part of that sudden conglomeration in its own right and what other associations might have become incorporated into it parasitically. But beneath it all I know that everything is false, that I’m already far away from what just happened to me and that, as on so many other occasions, it comes down to this useless desire to understand, missing, perhaps, the obscure call or signal of the thing itself, the uneasiness I’m left with, the instantaneous display of another order where memories, potentials, and signals break out to form a flash of unity which breaks up at the very instant it drags and pulls me out of myself. Now this has left me with just one kind of curiosity – the old human topic: deciphering. And the rest of it, a tightening at the mouth of the stomach, the dark certainty that around there somewhere, not with this dialectical simplification, a road begins and goes on.” – Julio Cortazar, 62: A Model Kit
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Xin Cheng: Mixtures
14 May – 11 June 2011
Preview: Friday 13 May 6pm
S/F is pleased to present Mixtures an exhibition of new work by Xin Cheng
A new publication will also be launched during the preview
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Pop Culture Colour Theory
A Presentation by James Goggin at S/F
Wednesday 4 May, 7pm
James Goggin’s Pop Culture Colour Theory lecture is an ongoing, continually evolving project which explores humankind’s attempts at codifying and commodifying colour. From video test patterns to International Klein Blue, the Pantone Matching System to the U.S. government Homeland Security Advisory System, colour is endlessly refracted by our subjective perception into adaptable economic and semiotic structures.
James Goggin founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. After 10 years in London, the studio moved to Arnhem, the Netherlands, where James combined commissioned work with teaching at Werkplaats Typografie, alongside lecturing in history and theory at ECAL (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne), Switzerland. In August 2010, James accepted the position of Design Director at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where he now lives and works. Clients have included Tate Modern, Camden Arts Centre, Phaidon, Transport for London and David Kohn Architects. James lectures, runs workshops and is a visiting critic at various art institutions and design schools in Europe and the United States, and regularly writes for international publications and journals. Typefaces designed by James are available from Swiss type foundry Lineto.
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Paul Elliman print launch and talk at S/F, 15 April 2011, 7pm
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S/F at the St Paul Street Print Fair 26 – 27 March 2011, 11-5pm
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David Bennewith talk at S/F, 17 March 2011, 6pm
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Zac Langdon-Pole: Standing Like Spears
26 February – 26 March 2011
Preview: Friday 25 February 6pm
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S/F is pleased to be participating in the 2010 New York Art Book Fair.
Representing Narrow Gauge Publishing, Michael Lett Publishing, The National Grid, Z/X and selected artist editions.
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S/F is pleased to be participating in the 2010 Tokyo Art Book Fair
Representing Narrow Gauge Publishing, Michael Lett Publishing, The National Grid and selected artist editions.
