Chris Knox's Friend performs as part of Auckland Art Gallery's In Audio series
Friend is Chris Knox's new alter-ego for his more experimental output, including the recent musique concrete album, Inaccuracies & Omissions.

Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
Sunday 15 February 3.00pm
IN AUDIO Friend
Chris Knox's Friend performs as part of Auckland Art Gallery's In Audio series
Friend is Chris Knox's new alter-ego for his more experimental output, including the recent musique concrete album, Inaccuracies & Omissions.

Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
Sunday 15 February 3.00pm
IN AUDIO Friend
Given Chris' legacy of sentimental songs about bodily decay and generally sweetened abject-ness, he's a perfect choice to perform in response to the Pressing Flesh exhibition.

Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
13 December 2003 - 29 February 2004

This rambling group show looks at themes of skin, touch and intimacy - particularly bad intimacy. It takes in hysterical welts, playing tag in the nude, slap happy couples, live massage performance, blackened digits, passive-aggressive invitations, published romantic blacklists and wishlists, plasticine paintings, skin collages, dank nude studies, deeply textured stockings, hairy soap, stalker videos, pitted tongues, and finally classic feminist vagina paintings made by a guy.

The show includes Maria Abramovic and Ulay, Pat Brassington, Steve Carr, Derrick Cherrie, Julian Dashper, Jae Hoon Lee, Luise Fong, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Terrence Handscomb, Heavy Industries, Andrea Low, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, Ann Shelton, Jed Town, Terry Urbahn, Rohan Weallens, Artur Zmijewski and more.

"DUST. The storytellers have not realised that the Sleeping Beauty would have awoken covered in a thick layer of dust; nor have they envisaged the sinister spiders' webs that would have been torn apart at the first movement of her red tresses."
- George Bataille

"About 80 percent of the material seen floating in a sunbeam is actually skin flakes."- William F. Lyon

In Audio is a forum for intriguing, unusual and experimental performances from musicians and audio artists. It promises to provide an eclectic array of sonic artistry to mystify, stimulate, or soothe the ears of gallery patrons. Expect to encounter established performers exploring new approaches, or just generally letting their hair down, as well as exciting new artists. In Audio takes place approximately once a month on Sunday afternoons and is curated by Andrew Clifford, a freelance music journalist and artist.