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Established in June 2000, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space is a leading independent contemporary art space located in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Located on Left Bank, just off Cuba Street, Enjoy generates and facilitates contemporary art projects to support the development of new work and promote critical discourse around contemporary practice in Aotearoa.

Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 211, Left Bank, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)

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- Hiraeth Reading List
  - 28 Mar 2024
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  - Hiraeth is a Welsh word describing a spiritual longing for a place that we have never been.
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- Proposal for a Body Reading List
  - 23 Feb 2024
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  - Proposal for a Body posits that sound and text-matter are mediums that can be regarded as inherently queer in their expansive and corporally liminal states. Jo Bragg and Georgina Brett draw on the music and writing of artists Loren Connors and Kim Gordon to communicate through sound and poetry abstract-experience; what is inexplicable.
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- God the Mechanical Mother Reading List
  - 23 Feb 2024
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  - God the Mechanical Mother is an exhibition of extraction and post-metaphysical effluvia. Kat Lang experiments with primordial and time-bound materiality, and offers a deconstructed ontotheological study into the implications of meaning and uncertainty.
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- Quentin Lind, Yardstick, 2016
  - 21 Dec 2023
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  - Enjoy is excited to present Yardstick (2016) a film by Quentin Lind screening on our website over summer.
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- All This Work Is Necessary Reading List
  - 16 Dec 2023
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  - In All This Work Is Necessary, Ashleigh Taupaki presents a series of layered maps consisting of the archival text media and legislation that has negatively impacted the Hauraki wetlands. The reading list below is a small selection of resources that Taupaki has used throughout her studies.
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- Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata
  - 24 Jun 2023
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  - Views from the place where we live: a discussion with creative Pōneke housing tenants. Join some of the contributors to I Live Here and Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata The People’s Voice newspaper for an open shared discussion on the place of creative expression in our sense of place and security. 2pm, Saturday 24 June at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space. Facilitated by Mark Amery.
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- All is fair in love and war but darling this is both
  - 15 Mar 2023
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  - I never know how to write about us, do you?
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- The Tableau of Two Throats
  - 27 Jan 2023
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  - The Tableau of Two Throats is a performance by Tobias Allen with Josh Lowe, performed live in the basement of S&M's Cocktail Lounge on 16 December 2022.
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- 2023 Summer Residency
  - 19 Dec 2022
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  - We’re excited to announce Heidi Brickell is our 2023 Summer Resident. Heidi is an artist currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau, and will join us as artist-in-residence from 11 February – 26 March 2023, staying at the Rita Angus Cottage in Thorndon.
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- Introducing the artists: a digital tausala
  - 10 Nov 2022
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  - In Pasifika cultures, it's a no-brainer to call up your aunties, uncles, cousins, family members and friends to help with fundraisers. Rallying together is what we DO and do well. In Samoan culture there is a type of community fundraiser often hosted by schools, villages and churches called a tausala.
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- Through My Claystone Eyes
  - 2 Nov 2022
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  - “With all of our self-consciousness, we have very little sense of where we live, where we are right here right now.
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- Through My Claystone Eyes
  - 24 Sep 2022
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  - Globally, we live in an age that worships the new.
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- Reading The Stones Talk
  - 6 Jul 2022
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  - It is usually taken for granted by museum visitors that archaeological objects are chronologically displayed according to certain scientific classifications.
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- Ko wai a Māpihi? This is not water. Reading list
  - 23 May 2022
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  - Ko wai a Māpihi? This is not water is an exhibition backed by a lot of investigation conducted by the artists Cae and Nick and the communities and people who’s knowledge they have drawn on.
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- Eleanor Diaz Ritson Studio Visit
  - 16 Apr 2022
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  - Earlier this year we announced Eleanor Diaz Ritson as the Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 2022 summer resident artist. Four weeks into her residency at the Rita Angus Cottage in Thorndon, Enjoy’s assistant curator Tom Denize paid her a visit to see how her residency was going and bring some light to the inner workings of her practice.
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- 2022 Summer Residency
  - 3 Feb 2022
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  - We’re pleased to announce Eleanor Diaz Ritson is our 2022 Summer Resident. A painter and writer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Eleanor will join us as artist-in-residence from 14 February–26 March 2022, staying at the Rita Angus Cottage in Thorndon.
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- Lock down studio visits #4
  - 25 Nov 2021
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  - Haere mai whanau and join me, 2021 Tautai arts Intern Sophia Amore Coghini, while we indulge in the fourth in our series of artist interviews.
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- Tom Denize's lockdown reading picks
  - 9 Nov 2021
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  - Tom Denize is currently studying for a BFA at Massey University and has been interning at Enjoy for 2021 as part of the Massey internship elective. Part of Tom's work at Enjoy has been reviving the reading/writing group. The in person meet-ups are on hold due to Covid Alert Level 3 and 2 restrictions, so here are some of Tom's top reading picks.
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- Lockdown Studio Visits #3
  - 15 Oct 2021
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  - Tautai arts intern Sophia Amore Coghini is back at it again, with the third in a series of artist interviews of what they got up to during this lockdown.
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- Lockdown Studio Visits #2
  - 1 Oct 2021
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  - Join Tautai arts intern Sophia Amore Coghini for the second in a series of interviews with artists on what they got up to this lockdown.
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- Lockdown Studio Visits #1
  - 23 Sep 2021
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  - Enjoy our new series of artist interviews, conducted by Tautai Arts Intern Sophia Amore Coghini, for a cheeky little insight into what several artists got up to this lockdown.
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- Help Yourself introduction and reading list
  - 2 Jun 2021
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  - This introductory essay was writen by Grace Ryder for Help Yourself an exhibition co-authored by Turumeke Harrington and Grace Ryder with Sarah Hudson, Saskia Leek, Kristin Leek and Greta Menzies (28 May-10 July 2021).
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- Areez Katki's reading list
  - 17 Mar 2021
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  - This reading list was compiled by artist Areez Katki alongside the exhibition History reserves but a few lines for you at Enjoy (19 Feb–3 April 2021). The texts below have been instrumental to the artist’s research and practice, with many works in the show responding to the poems and themes of the titles below.
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- Nina Dyer's Publication Picks
  - 4 Mar 2021
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  - Enjoy sells a small but beautiful range of artist-led and small-press publications, including titles from our own archive of two decades of publishing.
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- 2021 Summer Residency
  - 17 Nov 2020
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  - We’re pleased to share that Ruby 嫦潔 White is our 2021 Summer Resident. Currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Ruby will join us in Pōneke from 1 February–14 March 2021, staying at the Rita Angus Cottage in Thorndon.
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- This is a library, a reading list
  - 9 Apr 2020
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  - Our exhibition This is a library draws upon curator Hanahiva Rose’s ongoing research into Pacific exhibition histories in Aotearoa. Here, Rose shares a list of readings and resources that contributed to her thinking, and offer insight into the practices of the four artists included in the show: Teuane Tibbo, Claudia Jowitt, Christina Pataialii and Salome Tanuvasa.
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- New landscapes: Salome Tanuvasa reflects on Matavai Taulangau’s Ma‘u Pe Kai
  - 3 Apr 2020
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  - In August 2019, Enjoy presented Matavai Taulangau’s solo exhibition Ma‘u Pe Kai.
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- New titles in Enjoy's library
  - 25 Oct 2019
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  - When Enjoy relocated earlier this year, we established a new reading room and multi-use space, and expanded our library collections through a number of generous donations from art spaces and publishers from Aotearoa, as well as new purchases from international art publishers such as World Food Books, Printed Matter and Sternberg Press.
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- Snapshot #3: On Reflection: Clare Noonan’s Pilgrim Tourist
  - 30 Aug 2019
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  - Between May 2018 and April 2019, Enjoy's former archives and library intern Imogen Simmonds catalogued and rehoused our archive, making it easier to navigate and accessible to visitors in our new reading room.
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- Snapshot #2: Neither Here Nor There: Fiona Connor‘s Inner City Real Estate 174/147
  - 4 Jun 2019
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  - Between May 2018 and April 2019, Enjoy's former archives and library intern Imogen Simmonds catalogued and rehoused our archive. In this series of blog posts, Imogen reflects on interesting moments from Enjoy’s 19-year history, and considers how our past projects have helped shape who we are today. Read Snapshot #1 here.
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