This Thursday the 30th June at 5.30pm the Blue Oyster Gallery will host the launch of the second issue of CROP MAGAZINE.
Lamentably smuggled in under the cover of the Christchurch Earthquake, the Key Government's Copyright Amendment Bill came into draconian force under 'urgency' a couple of months ago. In dire need of contextualisation and critique, Crop2 investigates issues of intellectual property, copyright, copyleft, art and the 'commons' with articles and reviews by Ana Martino & Branden Wesseling, KRAUS, Malcolm Denes, Ana Nimmus, and Oliver van der Lugt. In addition to an effective, even if slanted, primer on property and art, you can look forward to an interview with Dane Mitchell on the Occult and reviews of TripleAAA, Nina Katchadourian, Ben Pearce, Anna Terry, Don Hunter and Angela Lyon at the Blue Oyster, Rachel Taylor, Operation 8 and the World Cinema Showcase, Antonio Negri, Paul Taylor's Zizek and the Media and a selection of appropriations from Kerry Ann Lee, Dick Whyte and Motoko Kikkawa.
Join Crop Magazine, contributing artists and writers to celebrate the launch this Thursday and also share in the Blue Oyster Gallery's grand opening of its new reading room. Refreshments provided.
