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DON’T LET IT GET YOU – The story behind the sign

December 28, 2021January 5, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, celebrity, Diane Pivac, Film Archive cafe, Howard Morrison, interview, John O'Shea, Kiri te Kanawa, Musicals, Pacific Films, Rotorua, Wellington Art

The classic Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision ‘Don’t Let It Get You’ (Mary-Louise Browne, 2010) artwork has delighted viewers for

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Art Film 

Free Radical: Len Lye at 120

July 6, 2021July 7, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Len Lye, Len Lye Foundation, Sarah Davy

Our new online exhibition Free Radical: Len Lye at 120 is an exciting showcase of two dozen of Len Lye’s

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Photography by Viviane Sassen
Art 

A colourful collaboration

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Andrew Clifford, Dries van Noten, Len Lye, Len Lye Foundation, Paris Fashion Week, Viviane Sassen

Do you remember the electric sparks in your brain the first time you experienced a Len Lye artwork? Lye’s remarkable

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Art 

Sound, Vision and the Closet of Curiosities

October 13, 2020October 16, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments QMC, Queen Margaret College, Wearable art, WOW

The 1950s were a time when handheld film cameras were becoming more widely available and ‘home movies’ became widespread. Colour

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Art Film 

“Khal” Exhibition Opening Peformances

November 27, 2015December 21, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments art, Auckland, film, Helga Fassonaki, Khal, Paula Booker

– By Paula Booker (Programme Developer, Auckland) Khal, an ongoing project begun by Helga Fassonaki in Tabriz, Iran, is currently being

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Art Sound 

Audio Curios: Grahame Sydney

January 30, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments accessioning, Audio Curios, Farming Show, Gareth Watkins, Grahame Sydney, Newstalk ZB, radio

Radio Collection Developer Gareth Watkins regularly comes across interesting, unique, and sometimes downright puzzling bits of audio during his accessioning

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Art Film Television 

“Thirty” Opens in Auckland

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 30, Gareth Watkins, HIV AIDS, New Zealand AIDS Memorial Quilt, Paula Booker, Thirty

 – By Paula Booker (Programme Developer, Auckland) This Monday night saw a well attended launch for our new Auckland exhibition,

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Art Film 

WUFF it up! Submissions Now Open for 2015 Wellington Underground Film Festival

November 6, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2015, avant-garde, experimental filmmaking, festival, WUFF

“If done well, a film conveys effortlessly the ideas and aspects of life that are, typically, the most difficult to

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