Enjoy bathing among the raucous joyous chorus of creatures who will not be silenced.
To celebrate their exhibition, The little guys that come out of me: sit and listen to them, Natasha Munro (Paradox Princess) and Lucky Pollock (beet-wix) will perform amidst the sculptures which comprise their exhibition.
With the exhibition, the artists consider whether “the playful yet confronting nature of these creatures and their songs enable a more realistic depiction of queer expression. The aim of these works was to spark joy (and possibly shock), to grieve but also to play. Some of these beings are almost toy-like, but perhaps too confronting to quite be so. The bitcrushed sound of the Nintendo combined with Lucky’s hyperactive and frenetic compositional style amplify this feeling.”
Natasha Munro Hurn is a Tāmaki Makaurua based artist that explores utopian trans-punk ideology through an experimental screen print and installation practice. She seeks to find unapologetic practices of mess within an explosive hybrid of photographic-based collages of herself and her environment, fabric print work and hectic found object sculptures. Through this practice of mess she hopes to conjure up a healing euphoria for both herself and the various trans communities that exist within Aotearoa. Natasha has recently just finished her Master of Visual Arts at AUT in mid 2025.
https://www.instagram.com/utopia_for_sale/
Lucky Pollock is a musician and multi-instrumentalist whose compositional work ranges from notated music to experimental improvisation and electronic and popular music genres. They perform under the name of beet-wix, making music on a nintendo DS and have an ambient solo folk project called lucky omen, and have had classical compositions performed by the NZSO and NZ Trio. They are based in Te Whanganui-a-tara where they moved after completing their Bachelor of Music at Otago University in Ōtepoti in 2023.
https://www.instagram.com/beetwix4breakfast/
https://beet-wix.bandcamp.com/
Ducklingmonster is an audio-visual artist from Onehunga, Auckland | Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand | Aotearoa. She investigates social sites through a range of practices with a focus on lively performance installations. Publicly, her work has predominantly been in experimental sound performance, most notably in the group The Futurians, and solo as Ducklingmonster. In 2024 she released the LP ‘I know…… a… way” on AudioFoundation Records. Utilising a combination of scratched 45 records, broken beats emanating from a JVC boombox, field recordings of crashing oceans and Karangahape footpaths, electronic and vocal textures laid into walls of sonics – Duckllingmonster revels in the forgotten, neglected and overlooked. This collage of damaged sounds shines a light on lost passages of real time and space.
Come down after casting a vote in the general election!
Saturday 7 November @ Audio Foundation, 2pm
Koha appreciated
The little guys that come out of me: sit and listen to them runs until Saturday 21 November.
