Goodwill Singalong (2007)

Single channel digital video with stereo sound, duration 4:22 (min:sec)

Responding to a personal memory of the phenomenon of Nirvana, Goodwill Singalong explores the relationships and conflicts between subversive alternative music and praise and worship singing, playfully questioning these territories through the ubiquitous Karaoke video.

Territorial Pissings

8-25 August, 2007, The Engine Room, Wellington

Curated by Caroline Johnston

Territorial Pissings was a multi-media group show in which artists were invited to reflect upon their own countercultural loyalties and oppositional position to wider society, and how this facilitated and/or compromised cultural production.

With works that manipulated the iconography and mythology of music subculture and adolescence to critique the conventions bohemian artists and musicians hold, Territorial Pissings explored how these indiscriminate loyalties to counterculture have evolved into the uneasy and prolonged adolescence of a generation who have lost faith in the adult milestones of the past.

Contributing artists included Sarah Jane Parton, Greg Sharp, Marnie Slater, Mark Williams, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Johanna Sanders, Mike Heynes, Caroline Johnston, Carlos Wedde, and Shay Launder.