Extended Conversations

A programme for emerging art writers in Aotearoa, March – November 2018. Supported by @enjoygallery @blueoysterart and @CreativeNZ

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“The process of writing the “I” will never end with a complete whole, but rather a shifting and changing entity.” Jessica Aitken writes on autobiography and art criticism in her new essay for Extended Conversations. Read here: https://t.co/qpPzRPYa3o

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“Asking for anything risks embarrassment, it risks having to reckon with disappointment when things don’t come to pass as we imagined they might.” Read Simon Gennard’s essay on ambivalence and commitment on Extended Conversations now. https://t.co/HbfH0jVwA5

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“As an artist and writer, the pressure that I am confronted with is to create something “good” and “good for us”.” Dilohana Lekamge on writing to and for South Asian New Zealanders. https://t.co/wpFjuAz05n

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"Parekōwhai, it seems to me, is issuing a cautionary reminder to Te Papa. What you do matters. How you do it, more so." Read Francis McWhannell’s essay on Michael Parekōwhai’s Détour @Te_Papa. https://t.co/SijbOyhKrj

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“A body so large as the Pacific Ocean does not hold a single shape for long and the tides, unlikely to pause for anyone’s vision, resist our dehistoricisation.” Read Hanahiva Rose’s new essay “Five (dis)placements” on Extended Conversations now. https://t.co/UIUMbxoykr

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“The ache in my shoulders is the same labour that my grandfather bears, bent over this frugal earth. This memory is my inheritance.” Read Amy Weng’s new essay “After over again” on Extended Conversations now. https://t.co/vwsdvMgwcK

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The second and final texts from Extended Conversations are now live! Head to the website to read new texts by Jessica Aitken, Simon Gennard, Dilohana Lekamge, Francis McWhannell, Hanahiva Rose and Amy Weng. https://t.co/8IqsUjkYyy

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Now Online: Extended Conversations Texts #2 - https://t.co/OvZAe2rd30

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Worth your while? Laura Duffy interviews @dilohanalekamge and Elisabeth Pointon about work, self-care and their work on Masons Screen https://t.co/RxtVbeiTgq

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@toiponeke More information available here: https://t.co/4nSuY6Sd39

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OPPORTUNITY FOR WRITERS: On 1 Dec, @toiponeke are hosting a writing workshop with poet Dominic Hoey (Tourettes). They're offering two free scholarship places. To apply, email 50-100 words detailing what good writing means to you to [email protected] by 5 pm, 9 Nov.

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Extended Conversations mentor Rachel O'Neill is one of next year's Michael King Writers Centre writers-in-residence. Congratulations to Rachel and all the other writers. https://t.co/3Y3eBR8uhK

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New writing from EC mentor Thomasin Sleigh (@TSleigher).

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"I’m drawn towards fiction that moonlights as art history; short stories that question that veracity of images; and, conversely, art that interrogates words, or reveals the structures and hierarchies of language." 🌙 @TSleigher https://t.co/BCDR3lgdPz

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“...people have grown accustomed to thinking about this muddy verge as a place where battles are fought.” Read Amy Weng’s essay “On Mud” on Extended Conversations https://t.co/c1GUFhChz0

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“I am writing this to give thanks to the company I have found in quiet places.” Reads Hanahiva Rose’s essay “Here is the place where I will keep you” on Extended Conversations https://t.co/idXbjW49Ii

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"What concessions should be made for those who do not recognise changes in the rules of engagement?" Read Francis McWhannell's essay "To name and amend" on Extended Conversations. https://t.co/hYZNnXeUpC

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“Minority practitioners are constantly aware that the people who are actively welcomed into contemporary art spaces are predominantly Pākehā.” Read Dilohana Lekamge’s essay “Representation and Humour in South Asian Aotearoa Art” on Extended Conversations https://t.co/Mu6hSy3o7e

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“Art, in this instance, didn’t help me mourn. I didn’t ask it to. There were no great epiphanies. There was no weeping in front of paintings.” Read Simon Gennard’s essay “Nothing Important” on Extended Conversations https://t.co/3C9loARLiZ

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“It is not an existential crisis, which infers an unravelling or instability, more a controlled unstacking, an examination and a rebuilding of the parts that make up a whole.” Read Jessica Aitken’s essay “He uri au; he uri tātou” on Extended Conversations. https://t.co/XDcul4gbxi

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Extended Conversations gets a mention in the latest Lowdown on @thebigideanz. Thanks to Emma Johnson for the kind words. https://t.co/l3fjxOaXvX