
We end the year with a screening of the story of POPULAR PRODUCTIONS_et al., which runs to Saturday 22 December, 2018.
Filmed at the Marylands Residential School (opening 1955), Halswell, Christchurch, NZ, run by the Romana Catholic Order Brothers Hospitallers of St, John of God, as a residential school for children with learning difficulties. The young boy was in the care of the brothers of St John of God at the time of filming. Maryland’s school, more recently, was the centre of sex abuse cases. A not-for-profit trust the Survivors of Sex Abuse Trust, worked with many of the victims. There is no evidence that the child in the film was a victim of sex abuse.
et al. is the name of an ostensible network of artists, identities, and collaborators. et al. has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and abroad. Recent exhibitions include contemporary solidarity, CAST Gallery, in association with Ten Days on the Island Festival, Hobart, 2007. maintenance of social solidarity – instance 5, SCAPE 2006 Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch. the second of the ordinary practices, developed from the fundamental practice, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2006. fundamental rekenenm – Nieuw York, Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, New York, 2006. Solo exhibitions in New Zealand include ‘simultaneous invalidations: second attempt’, ARTSPACE, 2001 and abnormal mass delusions?, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2003. In 2004 et al. was the winner of New Zealand’s major art award, the Walters Prize, for restricted access from the Govett-Brewster exhibition.

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