<p>Call it an exhibition catalog or a monograph: this extensively illustrated book on the major New Zealand artist Sean Kerr is as surprising as Kerr's installations. His website opens with a video of him inconspicuously playing a snare drum as people arrive at a gallery. Known for using technology to create comic situations and good-natured affronts to the prevailing culture, he has also made a large and influential body of work in sound, installation, video and 2D formats. This major publication has been produced as a parallel project to a survey exhibition of Kerr's work in Auckland. Includes a substantial pictorial chronology of Kerr's gregariously varied practice, an interview with the artist, and texts by several contributors.</p>

Sean Kerr - Bruce is in the Garden; So Someone is in the Garden

Sean Kerr

Clouds

With the greatest title ever -- which has nothing to do with the book's content -- this is a greatest-hits collection from New Zealand artist/musician Bryce Galloway's awesome, rough-edged fanzine. Over a decade of publishing, the zine served as Galloway's personal graphic diary along with many of his very funny friends, chronicling his journey (and his horror thereof) from slacker, to adult art student, to father and homeowner. New Zealand's progressive alternative music scene intersects in so many ways with the country's contemporary art community. Resembling early blogs or the beginnings of Facebook, this engrossing book shows how the younger generation began to communicate in an underground, non-branded modality.

Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People: The Book of the Zine

Bryce Galloway

PX: Thoughts on Painting

Arts & Photography

Leonhard Emmerling

Jan Bryant

History & Criticism

Jim Allen: Skin of Years

Porter, Gwynneth

<p>A Rainbow Reader is a work of creative non-fiction which looks at colour from the personal perspective of Tessa Laird, an artist and writer based in New Zealand.\nIn 2009, Tessa Laird started a Doctorate of Fine Arts investigating the (r)evolutionary power of colour, from a personal, and political, transformative angle. A Rainbow Reader is the result of that study, but it is no ordinary academic treatise. Consisting of six chapters, one on each spectral hue, colour becomes a catalyst for speculative writing encompassing art history, literary criticism, personal anecdote, philosophy and anthropology.\nEach chapter of A Rainbow Reader is bound in the appropriately coloured card; together, the six chapters form a rainbow spine and operate as a kind of edition-based artwork, a veritable rainbow on your bookshelf.\nTessa Laird is a writer, artist and lecturer, who recently earned her Doctorate of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, with the exhibition and thesis Sheshnag's Coloured Canopy: The Rainbow and the Kaleidoscope as Metaphor and Method. Recent exhibitions include Reading Room with Peter Lange at Objectspace, Auckland, Chupacabra Candelabra at Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, and Freedom Farmers at the Auckland Art Gallery. For nine years Tessa taught on the Contextual Studies programme at the Manukau School of Visual Arts, and she currently lectures at the Elam School of Fine Arts. Tessa s history includes the co-founding and editing of magazines Monica Reviews Art and Log Illustrated, as well as being the director of The Physics Room in 1997-1998. In 1999 Tessa received a professional development grant from Creative New Zealand to travel to the US. She stayed in Los Angeles until 2003, working at China Art Objects Galleries, the Lord Mori Gallery, and interning with Semiotext(e). She has been a regular art columnist for the New Zealand Listener and writes for a range of art magazines and catalogues.</p>

A Rainbow Reader

Tessa Laird

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