Continuing on with Roald Dahl's Danny the Champion of the World, chatting with Olivia Tennet about the new Kiri & Lou feature at the NZIFF, and Lee has trouble with the phones.

Rob brings in some horrible snacks, reads a poem, and in sport, gets excited for the upcoming Tottenham vs AFC match. Kris enjoys the Hallertau Tropic Stout, inexplicably complains about Tom Hiddleston (again) on TV on the Radio...and plays a whole lot of music as well. 

Your one-stop shop for the greatest, latest tunes from across the motu and abroad. Featuring new music from the likes of Romi Wrights, Eden Burns, Michi + More.

This week on Sages of the Ages our hosts got separated in the timestreams, meaning Alex has to hold down the fort as Castor fights his way back to the studio. Reunited, the two bring you some bangers from the length and breadth of 2013, featuring artists such as Daft Punk, C418, Christoph El Truento. They also bring you the latest updates on digital television streams, marriage law reform, and Margaret Thatcher. 

Whakarongo mai!

CRIT: Art learning since 1987 is Artspace Aotearoa’s new exhibition which explores the notions of art learning in Aotearoa and beyond through the exploration of artists, and how they have engaged in art learning in relation to institutions. 

The show navigates these relations through 5 key prepositions: inside, outside, beside, around, and against. Exploring the various ways in which learning can take place, considering how this learning not only occurs through the classrooms, but also through conversations, critique, friendship, shared cultural knowledge and collective action. 

The show, in turn does not present a singular position or provide a linear history, but rather creates a space of unfixed dialogue that examines various models for the future of art education. Bringing together artworks, archives, pedagogical models, experiments, case studies and events which position themself amongst their shifting prepositions toward the university, academy and the ideological frameworks that continue to shape artistic leaning.

Here, the notions of art learning come together in space. Creating a lively exhibition that cultivates ongoing conversations. The works themselves remain in an active state of dialogue with the world around them. Open to critique, connection, and contemplation.

Maya caught up with deputy director of Artspace Aotearoa Bridget Riggir-cuddy about the exhibition.

Tony Guo is a Tāmaki-based painter. Primarily working in oil painting, Guo’s practice centres on an exploration and projection of queer allegory and performance, with his own identity and experience underpinning the work. Often depicting these apparently specific situations, Guo’s paintings turn them on their head to resist a conventional narrative or explanation, instead embracing an absurdist or whimsical language to mask an existential dilemma. 

His current solo exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Queue, sees Guo entering a new era of his practice as he leans more into abstraction, interlacing these figurative and abstract gestures with one another. Imagery of multiplicity – traces of figures and entities in queue – both arising and slipping back into the works themselves. Led by a process of improvisation, the works in Queue deemphasise a predetermined outcome or a clear procedural path, instead emphasising the unpredictability of experience, offering a reconsideration of performance in queue. 

Sof caught up with Tony Guo about Queue and his overall practice

Cam is back up in the studio, sharing all the latest releases out on the shelves today at Southbound! Whakarongo mai nei, listen back to hear a taster of the selection: MJ Lenderman covering This Is Lorelai, Kavinsky, and Underscores!

Thanks to Southbound Records!

Kirsten joins Rosetta for a chat about all things space funk! Whakarongo mai nei!

Rosetta catches up with Friday Breakfast host at RDU Missy G, to hear about all thats happening down in Ōtautahi Christchurch! Whakarongo mai nei!

This week, the rotating spot is covered by Alex.