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The arts with moving parts! Mercury Lane is a story-driven arts series that features a rather radical 'front-person free' approach, offering a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances each week. Reporters (Kim Webby, Sam Hunt, Chris Knox, Colin Hogg and Marcus Lush) occasionally lurk round the edges, serving the stories, but Mercury Lane's tack is to put the artists themselves in the middle of the picture, exploring what makes them tick as much as what makes their art click.

  • 1When the Eye Begins to See Marti Friedlander takes a series of self portraits and is interviewed on her life and career. Her work was the first to document post war New Zealand, exploring ideas of identity and politics through the fresh eyes of an outsider. She focuses on themes of protest and demonstration, Maori society and portraits of artists and writers. Fiona Pardington discusses her 2002 exhibition One Night of Love. Composed of photographic enlargements of pornography from the 1950s Pardington subtly changed existing photographs or put them into a new context to allow different interpretation. "Images considered risque in their era - subjects posing naked or semi-clad with overtones of soft porn, or women showing tainted physical and emotional histories - are now viewed with sadness, or, when seen through the eyes of the 1990s, as a parody." Her Hei Tiki series are photographs of old tiki from the Auckland Museum, judged not perfect enough for display.

    • Start 0 : 00 : 00
    • Finish 0 : 23 : 37
    • Duration 23 : 37
    Reporters
    • Colin Hogg (Reporter)
    Contributors
    • Jessica Justice (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
  • 2Toihoukura: A New Art Movement Toihoukura - a new art movement. Sandy Adsett, the principal tutor at Toihoukura in Gisborne discusses the success of the polytechnic in teaching students about traditional materials and techniques and combining these skills with a contemporary and personal vision. Adsett wants Maori art to leave the meeting house and enter New Zealanders' homes. Toihoukura is breaking down many traditional barriers such as letting women carve.

    • Start 0 : 24 : 41
    • Finish 0 : 33 : 55
    • Duration 09 : 14
    Contributors
    • Libby Hakaraia (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
  • 3The Print's Getting Smaller A look at magazines in the new high-tech multi-media environment.

    • Start 0 : 34 : 33
    • Finish 0 : 44 : 05
    • Duration 09 : 32
    Contributors
    • Paul Casserly (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
  • 4Poet's Corner Bill Manhire reads The Next Thousand.

    • Start 0 : 44 : 05
    • Finish 0 : 48 : 51
    • Duration 04 : 46
    Contributors
    • Andrew Bancroft (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
Primary Title
  • Mercury Lane
Date Broadcast
  • Tuesday 24 March 2009
Start Time
  • 09 : 30
Finish Time
  • 10 : 20
Duration
  • 50:00
Series
  • 1
Episode
  • 11
Channel
  • TVNZ 6
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Programme Description
  • The arts with moving parts! Mercury Lane is a story-driven arts series that features a rather radical 'front-person free' approach, offering a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances each week. Reporters (Kim Webby, Sam Hunt, Chris Knox, Colin Hogg and Marcus Lush) occasionally lurk round the edges, serving the stories, but Mercury Lane's tack is to put the artists themselves in the middle of the picture, exploring what makes them tick as much as what makes their art click.
Classification
  • Unknown
Owning Collection
  • Television Vault
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
  • Documentary
  • Arts
Reporters
  • Colin Hogg (Reporter)
Contributors
  • Andrew Bancroft (Director)
  • Jessica Justice (Director)
  • Libby Hakaraia (Director)
  • Paul Casserly (Director)
Subjects
  • Documentary
  • Arts