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Exhibitions

World made of steel, made of stone
Honey Brown, Josephine Jelicich, Deborah Rundle, Isabel Wadeson-Lee, and Daegan Wells
06 November to 12 December

Events

Haptic landscapes: Materials, environments, and the Arts and Crafts Movement
04 December

The 2021 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser
13 December to 19 December Call for Proposals 2022
16 January 2022

Past

Correspondence Volume One Issue One launch
30 November (Artist) Life School: How to talk about your work, with Emma Fitts
24 November Art, Not Science: Episode 29
19 November Seminar with Luisa Tora the 2021 UC Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies Artist in Residence
14 October Queer History Series: Through our eyes with an introduction by Luisa Tora and The Death and Life of
06 October Panel discussion: The Veiqia Project in talanoa
25 September (Artist) Life School: Budgeting for wellbeing
16 September Online screening of Moana Calling Me Home
28 August to 29 August (Artist) Life School: How to write a proposal
22 July Ko ngā hau me ngā wai: a wānanga with Cathy Livermore
20 July Talk + art writing situation with Gwynneth Porter
03 July The light changes: readings by Claudia Jardine and Vana Manasiadis
23 June Book Launch: Through That Which Separates Us
26 May Jogakbo Workshop with Steven Junil Park
22 May Panel discussion: some politics and practicalities of working with clay
15 May ART ABOUT | Josie Archer movement response to Bedrock
21 April An artist talk with Fiona Connor
17 April The Little Black Lamb Goes to a Rave: A talk by Anna Smith
27 March Monitor 3.1 final screening with popcorn
17 February Monitor 3.1 screening with popcorn
10 February Barrel of Monkeys Tournament
23 January Monitor 3.0 screening with popcorn
14 January HAMSTER Whitu: Launch and Listening
15 December 2020 The 2020 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser
04 December to 06 December 2020 TA'AI—FIKA responses
28 November 2020 Recontextualising the Staff God: Talk by Dr. Karen Stevenson
25 November 2020 Audio Description in Action with Judith Jones
21 November to 22 November 2020 Talk and presentation with Joseph Hullen
10 October 2020 Stones, Site, and Gothic Formations—Walking Tour
03 October 2020 HAMSTER Ono Release Day
26 September 2020 IKAP—Total Recall
23 August 2020 High Street Histories
09 August 2020 Invitational Kiosk Archive Platform
04 August to 23 August 2020 Domino Domino Closing Event
03 July 2020 ArgenTech Liquidation Auction
27 June 2020 An afternoon of Domino Domino
20 June 2020 Call for Proposals: HAMSTER Ono and Whitu
10 March to 29 March 2020 HAMSTER 5 Release
14 December 2019 The 2019 Physics Room Annual Fundraiser
06 December to 08 December 2019 Reading Groups with Övül Durmuşoğlu
04 December to 18 December 2019 Femisphere #3 Launch
30 November 2019 FIKA Writers respond to Two Oceans at Once
09 November 2019 Inbox Anxiety: Open Workshop
21 September 2019 Yuichiro Tamura: Artist Talk and Screening
12 September 2019 Dr. Aisling O'Sullivan: Wetlands, Wastewater & Sustainability
11 September 2019 sometimes my layers clash with your layers: a conversational writing workshop
07 September 2019 PATU! Film Screening and Talk
30 July 2019 Spontaneous Intentionality: A Performance
27 July 2019 From Kabul to Christchurch: The Twisted Ironies of the Terrorism Discourse
27 June 2019 Collective Perceptions: Talk with Janneth Gil and button badge making
22 June to 23 June 2019 HAMSTER Magazine Issue 4 Launch
19 May 2019 Panel discussion: Auditing Masculinity
12 May 2019 Panel discussion: After the exhibition, the lifespan of an artwork
30 March 2019 TPR Library Open Day
02 February 2019 Black Forest book launch
26 November 2018 Hewsonclad: The Physics Room Fundraiser 2018
21 November to 21 November 2018 Love in vain: readings about heartbreak
14 November 2018 Living Pulse
27 October 2018 Emerging technologies and alternatives to Capitalism
24 October 2018 Hamster Issue 3 Launch
03 October 2018 Dungeons & Dragons Character Building Workshop and Game
16 September 2018 Identity politics and gaming
15 September 2018 Beyond entertainment: CerebralFix talk and Q&A on the role of games
12 September 2018 Public Talk: Filipa Payne and Cushla Donaldson
29 August 2018 Light it up!
06 July to 05 August 2018 Unconditional I Talks: Kerry Ann Lee & Richard Bullen
28 April 2018 Show Room: an interior decorating consultation
28 March 2018 Eve Armstrong: Trading Table
07 March to 09 March 2018 The Longest Day + Chch Art Map Launch
07 March 2018 Gravelty (The scars of Wilson City): Volker Strübing
29 January 2018 The Physics Room Christmas Party
16 December 2017 Girls on Hope, Judy Darragh: 2017 Fundraising Exhibition
06 December to 09 December 2017 Salt of the Earth, Melissa Macleod: a temporary public artwork
05 December to 05 December 2017 Constancy Projections by Mark Harvey
05 November 2017 Blame it on the rain: a one night only film screening
10 October 2017 Still, Like Air, I'll Rise: Talks
29 July 2017 The Physics Room Open Studios
15 July 2017 Fffuture Fffocused Art Prize Panel Discussion
01 July 2017 Feedback, White Hole: A live performance by Mark Harvey
01 July 2017 The Longest Night & Chch Art Map Launch
21 June 2017 John Chrisstoffels responds to Nova Paul's Surplus Reality
03 June 2017 Decoherence: A live performance by Mark Harvey
01 June 2017 Screening and artist talk with Dieneke Jansen
24 April 2017 Uncertainty Principle: a live performance by Mark Harvey
22 April 2017 Janine Eisenächer Artist Talk
20 April 2017 Length Contraction: a performance-talk by Mark Harvey
23 March 2017 CIRCUIT Critical Forum: Preliminary Meeting
22 February 2017 Beyond Exhausted: Artist talk
17 December 2016 The Apple Tree
01 December 2016 Beyond Exhausted: performative lecture & curator talk
19 November 2016 Reflections and Directions
12 November 2016 Seen and Heard
29 October to 30 October 2016 Passionate Instincts: artist talk
08 October 2016 Lana Lopesi artist talk and cooking demonstration and Kākano Cafe
01 October to 01 October 2016 Artist talk: Lauren Burrow & George Egerton-Warburton
27 August 2016 PLACE HELD HOLD NOTHING performance by Brian Fuata
11 August 2016 Mapping La Mancha booklaunch
06 August 2016 A-Library workshop and filesharing session with Beth Caird
30 July 2016 Woosung Lee: Outdoor Painting Project
06 June to 10 June 2016 Artist talks: Annie Mackenzie, Dave Marshall & Bridget Reweti
04 June 2016 Dark Watch Book Launch
20 May 2016 Phytophilic: Why Look at Plants?
12 May 2016 Speaking Places: Hamilton 2015
18 March 2016 Murdoch Stephens Public Talk
12 March 2016 Kalisolaite 'Uhila Artist Talk
05 February 2016 The Distance Plan Journal Issue #3
20 January 2016 FOREIGN BODIES: a sequence of actions in grey space
19 January to 23 January 2016 PHYSICS ROOM XMAS PARTY ♫
12 December 2015 Mapping La Mancha
09 December to 12 December 2015 One Mimic Octopus in an Abstract Painting
28 November 2015 Silent Auction Fundraiser 2015
25 November 2015 Emerging Curators Programme 2015/16
12 November to 15 November 2015 Moist media reading event
21 October 2015 Our Future Network
26 September 2015 The History of Performance
05 September 2015 Exercises in Traversality, or: I Walked With A Zombie
08 August 2015 with fluidity
12 July 2015 Works in Progress
11 July 2015 Sampson Wong Public Talk
01 July 2015 Nathan Gray Artist Talk
23 June 2015 CHAT&SPILL / CHRISTOPHER L G HILL TALKING ABOUT HARDBOILED CITY AND OTHER THINGS
13 June 2015 Lauren Burrow & David Egan Artist talks
07 May 2015 Ziggy Lever, Michael Lee & Zak Penney Artist talks
02 May 2015 HEX WAVES with guests LES BAXTERS & MOTTE
10 April 2015 CERA (Community Environment Relevance Activities)
31 March 2015 Dawson Clutterbuck Artist talk
28 March 2015 LAFIDKI with guests ROSEN, TEAM CAT FOOD
13 March 2015 Clare Noonan and Marnie Slater Artist Talk
05 March 2015 Tino Graß and Catherine Griffiths Design Talk
26 February 2015 David Clegg Artist Talk
24 February 2015 FANTASING music video release party
14 February 2015 Reading Walking Writing Workshop
29 January to 01 February 2015 The Drowned World
12 December 2014 Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Project
29 November 2014 Artist Residency Fundraiser
28 November 2014 Field Theory The Stadium Broadcast
14 November to 17 November 2014 Sophie Bannan Modern Living Tour
26 October 2014 Ash Kilmartin This walk is becoming
30 August 2014 What is the problem in "problem solving"? Brad Haylock
16 July 2014 Liv Worsnop Artist Talk
05 July 2014 Olivia Webb Voices Project
29 June 2014 James Beckett Artist Talk
05 May 2014 Supporters Launch
30 April 2014 Shannon Te Ao Artist talk
08 March 2014 Resingularity
01 February 2014 The Physics Room Summer Art Writing Workshop
22 January to 25 January 2014 #physicsroom partypartyparty
13 December 2013 Urban T(act)tics: A symposium exploring tactics and acts of urbanism
26 October 2013 Local Time
25 October to 28 October 2013 Photography Now
12 October 2013 Louise Tu'u An Anthem of Hope
04 October 2013 Supply + Demand Mark Feary talk
27 September 2013 Brent Harris Posteering
25 September to 11 October 2013 Janine Randerson Neighbourhood Air
12 September 2013 Supply + Demand Time Bank
07 September 2013 Supply + Demand Stephen Hickson & Eric Crampton talk
05 September 2013 Janet Lilo Artist Talk
27 July 2013 Jo Burzynska Oenosthesia
20 July 2013 Lieko Shiga Artist Lecture
12 July 2013 1/3
29 June 2013 John Cousins The Loudspeaker as Shaman
17 May to 16 June 2013 Bella Field vs Nathan Pohio
12 April 2013 Alternative Exchanges: The Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa in Christchurch
09 April 2013 ADA Mesh Cities
30 March 2013 Simon Pope Netwalking
28 March to 29 March 2013 Publication launch John Ward Knox Sesame Seeds
09 March 2013 Leighton Craig
01 February 2013 Physics Room Xmas Party
14 December 2012 Imbogodom
12 December 2012 This is not Keith
17 November 2012 Heather Leigh Murray
19 October 2012 Lines of Flight
29 September 2012 God destroyer Teen Haters IRD Months
08 September 2012 Publication launch & event - The Subconscious Restaurant
18 August 2012 Peter Swanson (with IRD and Gate)
10 August 2012 Publication Launch - Local Edition 25.07.12
15 July 2012 Performances by Tim Coster, Adam Willetts, Awesome Vortex
23 June 2012 Ann Liv Young Screening
13 June 2012 The Artists' Cinema
01 June 2012 Escaping Bodies: Jumping Bricks Talk and Workshop-Performance by Mark Harvey
21 April 2012 2010 Physics Room Annual Launch
30 September 2011 Artist talk: André Hemer
12 February 2011 The Physics Room Annual Christmas Party
17 December 2010 The Sound of the Underground: Earthquakes, Music and Art
15 December 2010 Artist talks: Geoffrey Heath & Sriwhana Spong
17 November 2010 TOMUTONTTU
25 September 2010 Meredith Johnson Creative Time, New York
18 August 2010 FRESH LICKS OF PAINT: Justin Paton
14 August 2010 Communal Skins - Jemima Wyman
04 August 2010 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ACHIEVEMENT - Lawrence Green
04 July 2010 Studio of Exhaustion Judy Darragh
05 June 2010 Toby Huddlestone Lecture - APATHY
28 April 2010 Nature Morte
10 April 2010 Postcard Landscapes Esther Ruelfs
30 March 2010 WTF: Agaz Sanjay Theodore
27 March 2010 Cash ‘n’ Carry Fundraising Edition
19 March 2010 Book launch: Bruce Russell's Left-handed blows
28 January 2010 C.L.U.E. (Color Location Ultimate Experience) intervention
05 December 2009 C.L.U.E. POSTER CAMPAIGN
25 November to 20 December 2009 RECREATIONAL BUREAUCRACY
28 September to 02 October 2009 Emory Douglas and the Art of Revolution
22 September 2009 The Collection (II)
20 September 2009 Ms. & Mr. Artist Talk
14 September 2009 Dear Paul Closing Event
06 September 2009 Discussion Evening
03 September 2009 Cash 'n' Carry Tote Bag Fundraiser & Design Competition
01 August 2009 Artist Talk: Matthew Shannon
08 July 2009 Tony de Lautour Book Launch
11 June 2009 Artist Talk: g. bridle
03 June 2009 Every Plant Tells a Story
21 May 2009 Since the Great Depression - Raised by Wolves
04 May 2009 Pimmon With Support from Peter Wright
03 May 2009 Artist Talk: André Guedes
03 May 2009 Artist Talk: Young Sun Han
18 April 2009 PITS, Coster & MacKinnon Performance
30 March 2009 Art Trek 2009
11 March 2009 Artist Talk: Gary Hill
02 March 2009 Trambience
28 February 2009 Richard Francis & Bruce Russell Performance
27 February 2009 Poor Racer Thomas Hirschhorn
15 February 2009 The Enright House Performance
19 December 2008 The Physics Room Annual 2006 Publication Launch & Christmas Party
13 December 2008 Artist Talk: Alessandro Ludovico
12 October 2008 Free Tours
19 September to 02 November 2008 Runway - Launch Party
18 August 2008 Si C'est (if it is) Open Discussion
14 July 2008 Trace Performance
11 July 2008 Rafael Toral's Space Studies
29 June 2008 Book Launch: Christina Read
27 June 2008 Tim Coster and Adam Willetts
07 June 2008 Tour Guides Wanted
01 June to 15 July 2008 Vera Dika Talk
29 May 2008 Artist Talk: Thomas Hirschhorn
17 May 2008 The Water Show Discussion Evening
14 May 2008 Lullatone Performance
27 March 2008 Art Trek 2008
19 March 2008 Artist Talk: Mischa Kuball
18 March 2008 The National Grid #4 Launch Party
06 March 2008 Trending Networks Symposium
23 February to 24 February 2008 SÉANCE FOR NAM JUNE PAIK
23 February 2008 Layering Buddha: Robert Henke Performance
21 February 2008 Robert Henke Workshop
21 February 2008 Sparkling Duets
24 November 2007 Artist Talk: Mladen Bizumic
15 November 2007 Art Trek 2007
14 November 2007 Ronnie van Hout End Doll Edition Launch
08 August 2007 Gloss Enamel
27 July 2007 Artist Talk: Jon Campbell
27 July 2007 Shoeb Ahmad Performance
15 June 2007 Artist Talk: Shigeyuki Kihara
24 May 2007 Artist Talk: Sriwhana Spong & Kate Newby
22 May 2007 Pink and White Terraces Film Screening
15 May 2007 Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Film Screening
09 May 2007 Artist Talk: Sarah Jane Parton & Zina Swanson
18 April 2007 The Bolivarian Dream Screening
15 April 2007 Reuben Derrick CD Launch
11 April 2007 Bonaparte - Berlin Bang Bang Tour
09 March 2007 DJ Olive Performance
22 February 2007 Nicolaus Schafhausen Lecture
11 December 2006 Claire Doherty Public Lecture
07 December 2006 Constantly in Motion
08 November to 22 November 2006 Robert Johansson & Vanna Bowles artist talk
25 October 2006 Art Trek 2006
25 October 2006 Transubstantiation Loops
13 October 2006 Chat and Spill - Simon Denny
28 September 2006 Adventures in Animation
16 September 2006 The Physics Room Annual 2005 Publication Launch
13 September 2006 Artist Talk: Fiona Jack
23 August 2006 Artist Talk: Gaston Ramirez Feltrin
10 August 2006 Artist Talk: David Clegg
02 August 2006 Artist Talk: Nina Czegledy
24 July 2006 Transposition of a Mountain
11 July 2006 Sound Performance - Lawrence English, Greg Davis, Jeph Jerman
08 July 2006 Radio Kiosk 106.5FM
29 June to 18 July 2006 Mini- FM Radio Transmitter Building Workshop
25 June 2006 Artist's Talk: Rob McKenzie & Kain Picken
14 June 2006 Independent Publishing Discussion
13 May 2006 Wrap Me Up, Make Me Happy
29 April 2006 Black Screen, White Noise by Janne Vanhannen
20 April 2006 Illustrated Artist Talk: Ayşe Erkmen
01 April 2006 Artist Talk: Christoph Keller
17 March 2006 Experimental Film & Video Art Screening
15 March 2006 Floortalk - Dr Friedrich Meschede
11 March 2006 Sound Performance by Eye and Bruce Russell
03 December 2005 Sound Performance by Dr Philip Samartzis & Lawrence English
22 November 2005 Viva la Vida Film
25 October 2005 2004 Annual Publication Launch
12 August 2005 Art Attack!
27 July 2005 All For Show
14 July 2005 Woodenhead Film Screening
20 April 2005 Breathing Space Screenings
12 April 2005 Future Perfect Screening
06 April 2005 Antarctic Art
12 February 2005 White Noise
27 January 2005 Marl Video Art Award
03 November 2004 John White / Francesca Mountfort Album Release Party
28 September 2004 Ahoy! Public Art Project
13 September to 18 October 2004 Trambience 2004
05 September 2004 Philip Dadson Performance
10 August 2004 Avatar Body Collision
02 August 2004 Secondary School Art Teachers Evening
20 July 2004 MuVi - Music Video Clips from Germany
04 June 2004 Thursday 26 February 2004
26 February 2004 Concert Performance by Thomas Lehn & David Watson
20 January 2004 Trambience 2003
18 December 2003 <RE:PLAY>
27 November 2003 Birchville Cat Motel / Bruce Russell Performance
19 September 2003 Initiate - An Open Discussion
15 September 2003 'Faces and Powers' Lecture
18 August 2003 Transmediale Video Screening
10 June 2003 Who Owns That Image? Seminar
26 November 2002 Go Out. Go On. Go Elsewhere
08 November 2002 Turanga
11 October 2002 Dream / Wachseins
22 August to 27 August 2002 Sonic Sampler : Short Films with a Pulse
16 August 2002 Toshimaru Nakamura & Tetuzi Akiyama
03 August 2002 Eye to Eye by David Cross
11 July 2002 Set Upon a Curve / Balloon Adventure
06 July 2002 New Zealand and the Bomb Panel Discussion
20 June 2002 Piped Music Programme
10 April to 09 November 2002 Who owns that image?
26 November 2001 Craft
12 September to 01 October 2001 Crown Lynn New Zealand - The Ambiguous Image
01 September to 30 September 2000 Art on the Move
01 June 1998 to 01 February 1999 Berlin Alchemie
19 March to 20 March 1997 Artificial
07 December 1996 Hoardings
01 June to 01 December 1996

Publications

Correspondence 1.1

Avian Loop Through That Which Separates Us One and Many Mirrors: Perspectives on Graphic Design Education HAMSTER Issue 7 HAMSTER Issue 6 Kiosk Logbook HAMSTER Issue 5 Call for Proposals HAMSTER Issue 5 HAMSTER Issue 4 HAMSTER Issue 3 Wendelien Bakker: Prospecting HAMSTER Issue 2 HAMSTER Issue 1 Louise Tu'u: Performing the Margins: An Anthem of Hope Call for Proposals: HAMSTER, a new publication A Year of Conscious Practice Mapping La Mancha Pauline Rhodes: Dark Watch natural sympathies and weird weather Reading Walking Writing Brent Harris: Posteering Shannon Te Ao: I can press my face up against the glass The Physics Room Journal 2013 2014 Artist Editions: Ella Sutherland 2014 Artist Editions: John Ward Knox 2014 Artist Editions: Kirstin Carlin WORK-BOOK John Ward Knox: Sesame Seeds Blaine Western & Michael Parr: company Toshi Endo: New Super Turbo Warriors Louise Menzies: Local Edition 25.07.12 White Fungus: The Subconscious Restaurant André Hemer: hyper/links The Physics Room Annual 2001 - 2010 Zina Swanson: The risk of it all falling apart MY EYES KEEP ME IN TROUBLE Tony de Lautour: B-Sides & Demos André Guedes: The Airotiv Papers Dan Arps: Gestapo Pussy Ranch James Oram Brenda Nightingale: Twin Peaks Fiona Amundsen & Tim Corballis: Si c'est (if it is) Simon Lawrence: path of the path Louise Menzies: Sparkling Duets Christina Read: Evidence Jon Campbell: yeah yeah yeah Sriwhana Spong and Kate Newby: TWONE Zina Swanson Sarah Jane Parton: Guidance Clare Noonan: Landscape Portrait Sweet Punch: recent Nordic video Ayse Erkmen: awesome Super Natural Family First Daniel du Bern: Dirt Work Louise Menzies: Homecoming Kaleb Bennett: The Sumidero Canyon Simon Morris Painting Projects 2000-2005 Dane Mitchell: Present Surface of Tell Once Upon a Time Andrew McLeod: Largess Volume Series Sampler Series Audible: New Frontiers The Loni and Roni Show HARDSELL!! Because you want it LOG Illustrated Issues 1-15 Bombs Away Ruth Watson: Without Parachute Tomorrow People 4Eva - A Tribute to Fantaticism Grunt Machine

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