The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero
Host: James Tapsell-Kururangi and Jane Wallace
Categories: Arts and Culture
Languages: English
Plains Media
Produced By: The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space
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The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero is a broadcast of artist talks, sound art and discussion from our community. Dedicated to developing and promoting contemporary art and critical discourse in Aotearoa, The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero stems from our exhibition programming. Tune in every third Friday of the month. You can visit The Physics Room at 301 Montreal Street, The Arts Centre Registry Additions Building (access from The Market Square), Christchurch, New Zealand. We're open 10am-5pm from Tuesday to Friday, and 11am-4pm on weekends, and entry is free to all.
All Episodes
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Episode 15 - James Tapsell-Kururangi
Published: 21/11/2025 8:00 p.m.
On this episode, Jane speaks to James about his recent residency in Minnesota and attendance at the Indigenous Curatorial Collective in Saskatoon, and some highlights about this trip.
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Ilish Thomas
Published: 17/10/2025 8:00 p.m.
Artist Ilish Thomas joins Jane on this episode, ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at The Physics Room. Ilish talks through some of the points of reference for this new moving-image work which orbits The Crystal Palace Theatre in Maungawhau, Tāmaki Makaurau, and in her wider practice.
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - James Tapsell-Kururangi
Published: 19/9/2025 8:00 p.m.
Curator James Tapsell-Kururangi talks to Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Aidan Taira Geraghty for our current exhibition 09 07 25. This episode is broadcast during Te Wiki o te reo Māori.
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Tamsen Hopkinson
Published: 15/8/2025 8:00 p.m.
In this second Artist Documents episode, curator Jane Wallace speaks to Bootleg artist Tamsen Hopkinson. Tamsen talks about some of the things that influenced the installation Crimson and Clover in the exhibition, including the Tommy James song, a hole-punch, and silent letters.
The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Episode 11, 18 July 2025
Published: 18/7/2025 8:00 p.m.
This is the first of a mini-series called Artist Documents that we will be hosting on Contemporary Art Kōrero over the coming months. Artist Documents is a conversation with an artist from The Physics Room programming in which we speak about points of reference for their practice recently–maybe a place, a song, a particular material, a text, an object. In this episode, I speak to Abigail Aroha Jensen, currently exhibiting in the gallery with Tamsen Hopkinson as part of our current exhibition Bootleg, about some of the objects and ideas that informed her work for the show.
