The 2nd Auckland Triennial PUBLIC/PRIVATE has its own dedicated website now live Public/Private . The exhibition showcases 39 artists from 11 different countries. The 2nd Auckland Triennial PUBLIC/PRIVATE has its own dedicated website now live Public/Private . The exhibition showcases 39 artists from 11 different countries.public (1) of, relating to, or concerning the people as a whole (2) open or accessible to all privacy (1) The condition of being private or withdrawn; seclusion (2) the condition of being secret; secrecy

The curators Ngahiraka Mason and Ewen McDonald have selected 38 artists' projects that explore aspects of PUBLIC/PRIVATE and encapsulate a number of powerful, poignant and disturbing ideas succinctly.

Indeed, for the audience, PUBLIC/PRIVATE will be an evocative and stimulating encounter with a range of cross-cultural, cross-media practices that focus on an increasingly pertinent political issue.

Further, the projects instigate debate as a crucial part of the work and highlight the significant role that artists can play in elucidating contemporary social issues.

The participating artists are: Mark Adams (NZ), Laurie Anderson (USA), Tiong Ang (The Netherlands), John Barbour (Aus), Polly Borland (Aus/UK), Louisa Bufardeci (Aus), Mutlu Çerkez (Aus), Chris Cunningham (UK), Margaret Dawson (NZ), et al. (NZ), Kathleen Herbert (UK), Jenny Holzer (USA), Lonnie Hutchinson (NZ), Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (USSR/USA), Kao Chung-Li (Taiwan), Emiko Kasahara (Japan), William Kentridge (RSA), Jakob Kolding (Denmark), Lauren Lysaght (NZ), Andrew Mcleod (NZ), Thando Mama (RSA), Senzeni Marasala (RSA), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Julia Morison (NZ), Callum Morton (Aus), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Neil Pardington (NZ), Robert Pulie (Aus), Lisa Reihana (NZ), Catherine Rogers (Aus), Sangeeta Sandrasegar (Aus), Lorna Simpson (USA), Sean Synder (USA/Germany), Kathy Temin (Aus), Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie (USA), Jane & Louise Wilson (UK) and Yuan Goang-Ming (Taiwan).

PUBLIC/PRIVATE TUMATANUI/TUMATAITI The 2nd Auckland Triennial, an exhibition of leading and emerging contemporary New Zealand and international artists, will be presented at the New Gallery, University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery, George Fraser Gallery, ARTSPACE and a number of city sites from 20 March - 30 May 2004.

PUBLIC/ PRIVATE The 2nd Auckland Triennial Announcement 2004
Media Release June 2003

What purpose does privacy serve? Are there consequences of being a privacy deviant who has a public personae distinct from a private one? Have we become a society that is easily embarrassed by disclosures of any nature? Do we hinder personal, social and political relationships, communications and freedoms because we are afraid of the pain of private and public embarrassment? Is there a moral and social norm centre on issues of public and private privacies? Some of these questions give cause for further enquiries as the blurring of private and public has become an important concern.

The 2nd Auckland Triennial (20th March - 30th May 2004) PUBLIC/ PRIVATE: TUMATANUI/ TUMATAITI will focus on the meaning of privacy, on the self, and on individuality within a number of contemporary socio-political contexts. The works to be included raises pertinent questions about privacy that need to be (re)considered: some projects are based on the loss of privacy, on actual events that have impinged directly upon personal freedoms, other works reveal the impact of invasive technologies (surveillance systems and biomedical procedures) on notions of individual and social wellbeing.

Private practice/ public metaphor is one way of drawing attention to the fact that individual voices can come to speak for others who may not yet have found the means to describe and come to terms with a particular circumstance or predicament. Indeed, it could be suggested that the creative process itself is a form of 'going public', of self-exposure.

The Triennial exhibition will emphasise a cross-cultural, transgenerational approach - the range of cross-media projects suggesting that public and private, are oscillating terms. This is the pivot upon which the exhibition balances: despite the many challenges confronting us today, art making remains a vibrant and challenging alternative to the information received via other means. The hands-on and often audacious idiosyncratic approaches, reveals that artists are capable of encapsulating powerful, poignant and disturbing ideas succinctly. The intention of the exhibition is to open up debate and by including a number of divergent voices from a range of differing social contexts, it is hoped that certain connections between the works will resonate, thereby creating a dynamic experiential dimension for the audience.

PUBLIC/ PRIVATE: TUMATANUI/ TUMATAITI will also locate Auckland New Zealand as a key place to present this exhibition which will also feature a film and video programme, a symposium and an extensive public events calendar.