In Relation to In Relation Ep3 | Tina Barton Reads - Lunchtime Talks

Every second Tuesday lunchtime, Christina Barton, Director of the Adam Art Gallery and co-curator of In Relation: Performance Works by Peter Roche & Linda Buis 1979–1985, selects a performance in the exhibition and reads the relevant original notes drafted by the artists or compiled by their most assiduous audience member, the critic and curator Wystan Curnow. Her idea is to bring a live dimension into the gallery as a way of animating the documentation on display and sharing first-hand insights in their unedited form. Each reading will be between 15 and 20 minutes with time for questions after.In this reading Tina reads both Peter Roche’s and Wystan Curnow’s original notes written soon after the Night Piece performance, executed in the Old Gasworks in Freemans Bay in Auckland. This was undertaken in the dark without the permission of the site’s owners and entailed Linda crawling along the length of a 60-foot wall, a surviving fragment of a much larger structure, while Peter lit candles at points along the wall’s base. Wystan was the only audience member. The two accounts were later integrated and published in 1983 in the first issue of Parallax, a new journal dedicated to postmodern art and literature. We are grateful to both authors for allowing us to share these direct thoughts with our audience.