{"id":949,"date":"2017-08-11T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2021-08-28T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T05:02:51","slug":"watching-windows-at-te-uru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"<em>Watching Windows<\/em> at Te Uru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even before stepping foot inside Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery in the Auckland suburb of Titirangi, I was sold on the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/index.cfm\/whats-on\/calendar\/watching-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Watching Windows<\/em><\/a>. There is something immediately appealing about a show based on the window. I can think of few entities more fundamental to daily life and less celebrated. Symbolically, the window teems with content. As a point of departure for an exhibition, it offers the all-important combination of simplicity and richness\u2014one that <em>Watching Windows<\/em> consciously exploits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Te Uru\u2019s director, Andrew Clifford, in collaboration with artist Andr\u00e9 Hemer, the show riffs on the window in a variety of ways. Installations, for instance, engage physically with the gallery\u2019s fenestration and the light that enters through it; wall works provide windows on to other realities; a moving image work acts as a sort of electronic skylight. The concise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teuru.org.nz\/index.cfm\/whats-on\/calendar\/watching-windows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introductory text<\/a> alludes to the potential of screens connected to the internet to act as portals, relaying pictures from far away. This notion is hinted at by some of the works on display, and the international make-up of the cast further reflects \u2018our interconnected digital age\u2019. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conversations.runway.org.au\/conversations\/watching-windows-te-uru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading<\/a> on Runway Conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before stepping foot inside Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery in the Auckland suburb of Titirangi, I was sold on the idea of Watching Windows. There is something immediately appealing about a show based on the window. I can think of few entities more fundamental to daily life and less celebrated. Symbolically, the window teems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[177,180,179,181,178],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-andre-hemer","tag-biljana-jancic","tag-catherine-clayton-smith","tag-celine-struger","tag-ry-david-bradley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francismcwhannell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}