alt list for 'revolution in the arts' in NZ in roughly 1965 - 1986

I don't know why those dates were chosen for the AAG show - is 1986 the date that Peyer Roche & Linda Buis stopped performing? -- maybe that cd account for that date. A year before the yuppy market crash - 1965 is the date for the end of Ikon Fine Arts & beginning of Barry Lett Galleries & New Vision gallery.

The premise: artists who promote causes & issues with media attitudes that remain largely unchanged are not actually responding to their social situation. So forget 'reference to causes' as a criterion 

My premise regarding artists' renewal [revolution is a big word!] is that they change the way they do things extending media & re-assessing the social situation in which art is presented and seen in accordance with urgent new content.

Below is a listing for an imaginary show -- feel free to add to it

Among other things - I'd want to reassemble the Victory over Death show of C McCahon - even if only in a photo mock up.

Jim Allen's 'Barb Wire' - a remake - though the AAG now owns, but has never shown OA-R part ! it got shown  St Paul st instead -

there's video of Bruce Barber's early performances

Darcy Lange's 'Work' videos 

Len Lye's 'Free Radicals' 

one of the surviving works by Malcolm Ross - ask Bronwen Muir 

Nick Spill work

something to represent the early From Scratch of Philip Dadson & friends

any film or video of Roche/Buis performance

any surviving installation of Pauline Rhodes - likewise Julia Morison 

I believe John Hurrell's 80s work shd be there

early installation work of et al

someone shd check out "experimental" film & video of the 70s 80s - early Blyth - likewise Richard von Sturmer - & Ron Brownson

Billy Apple's works in the 1970s shd be in there photos posters whatever

strange as it may seem now, & partly for reasons Francis Pound has written about at length abstract work was fighting for gallery space against always more marketable 'figurative' art - for that reason I'd want to see work by the 'abstract' artists I listed yesterday - prominently displayed

& as Ross Brighton reminded me Ralph Hotere

as for Rick Killeen - his invention of the cut-out is something special

Terrence Handscomb has to be included

the 'bad boys' as I call them privately - in my mind not far removed in attitude from German figurative painting of the - 70s shd get some space Fomison & Clairmont & Allen Maddox

Jeffrey Harris  Tony Lane

and yes early Dashper, early Reynolds

this starter is all v partial of course & hopelessly incomplete, & off, as they say, the top of my head --

Jim & Mary Barr will have some ideas for sure & that will be a help, because a lot of what I've been seeing is Auckland based - some of it old Artspace work 

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[Cheryl Bernstein]

Perhaps Marie Shannon's early re-staged 'confessional' photographs, like 'The Rat in the Lounge', 1985.