‘‘TIME is Love’’, curated by Kisito Assangni
(Blue Oyster and The Nomadic Art Gallery)
‘‘TIME is Love’’ is a collaborative exhibition of video art showing at the Blue Oyster for a twoweek period. Established by TogoleseFrench curator Kisito Assangni in 2008, ‘‘TIME is Love’’ is an itinerant exhibition facilitated by The Nomadic Art Gallery in collaboration with the Blue Oyster. The itinerant nature of Assangni’s project dovetails perfectly with the similarly itinerant practice of The Nomadic Art
Gallery created by Belgians Arthur Buerms and Eugenie Coche in January 2020 as a mode of presenting popup exhibitions and public performances throughout Aotearoa. Buerms and Coche travel in a converted truck which doubles as home and gallery, with exhibitions shown in the back of the gallery, while the truck itself is conceived as a public participatory artwork as invited artists make works for the sides and back of the truck.
For this, the 12th iteration of ‘‘TIME is Love’’, and the first screening in Aotearoa, the theme is Universal
Feelings: Myths & Conjunctions. Assangni has selected 17 video works from Europe, Africa, Scandinavia, and North and South America. The video works have been separated into three looped sequences and are presented on two monitors (with headphones) in the main gallery space, and as a projection in the small gallery. In addition to daily screenings, each night a single film will be reverse projected on to the gallery’s front window so as to be viewed from the street.