This week's show featured new music from Delaney Davidson, Manuel Darquart and more. 

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This week on Sages of the Ages, wizards Alex and Castor are back in 1993, taking you on a sonic sojourn through the year's best tracks, hottest news, and greatest movies. Sages this week brings you the latest updates on nuclear non-proliferation, Spielberg's box office successes, and an upstart politician's new party. They also play the hottest new tracks from the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, and Stereolab.

Featuring: Jamiroquai's soul attempting to escape its digital prison.

Whakarongo mai!

Sof catches up with Finn Godbolt and Mitchell McGrath about their joint exhibition currently on at RM Gallery, Day for Night.

And Maya catches up with Venus Blacklaws about their current exhibiton at Plomacy, ALLEY CAT.

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This Morning Glory it was a bit cloudy outside; Huia took this as a opportunity to play some chill moody tracks. 

our Fancy New Band today definitly fit the vibe check as we had Naia Keera whose music was insanly beautiful.

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Today we had Naia Keera come in for Fancy New Band! 

Naia Keera Is a solo singer songwriter who has recently come out with a debut album under the name 'Nature Knight', his music is raw, angelic and deeply thoughtful. 

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Day for Night is a joint exhibition by Finn Godbolt and Mitchell McGrath, currently on at RM Gallery. 

Finn Godbolt is a Tāmaki-based textile designer whose practice explores knitting and textile technologies through experimentation and industrial machinery. Mitchell McGrath is a Tāmaki-based designer whose expanded practice considers the notions of spatial parameters through embodied experience, exploring fleeting optical phenomena through reactive material and experimentation with imaging techniques. 

In Day for Night, Godbolt and McGrath present this large scale lenticular knitted textile piece, collaboratively exploring the reciprocal relationship between cinematic and textile technologies through clouds. Here, clouds are a window into the world of cinema, using textiles to examine the language of clouds as images and the way they are perceived in film as a vessel for understanding the shifting relationship between image and viewer. 

In the work, Godbolt and McGrath play with the fixed and the unfixed, letting clouds, as this constantly morphing subject, shift and rearticulate themselves as the viewer moves within the space – transforming them into having this almost permanent quality, while also sitting in suspense – creating this embodied experience of Day for Night.  

Sof caught up with Finn and Mitchell about the show and their wider practices.

Venus Blacklaws is a Tāmaki-based transdisciplinary artist working across painting, performance, costume design, sculpture, and installation, and is also a member of Tāmaki-based artist collective, The Killing. Blacklaws practice seeks to navigate ideas around the mutability of the body, and illusions of self. Drawing from surrealism and drag conventions to unravel and re-present narratives of sex, gender, mythology and transformation into a single embodied language. 

Their current show at Plomacy, ALLEY CAT delves into Blacklaws' painting practice. Presenting a series of paintings that circulate notions of remembering through articulations of the feline and feral. Employing the feline as a vehicle for communication, in which its liminal body can exist and seep between these ephemeral spaces.

Here, the feline is placed amongst these abstracted fields enriched in various painterly applications. Drips of paint running down the canvas, a building up of translucent layers meet with robust smears of paint. A lively vocabulary of paint that builds up into these alternative worlds that seep out into the gallery space itself. Expanding the confinements of the frame, while also navigating the fluxing dissolution of figure and field. Exploring these themes of displacement through archetypes of the stray, reimanging grief as something atmospheric and energetic. 

Maya caught up with Venus about the show and their overall practice.