Yesterday we walked round the Auckland Museum spotting Peter Robinson's work scattered throughout the building.

Four on the floor

The Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal has a piece being performed in the Venice Biennale. Two people move about on the floor making language-like sounds, grunting or occasionally singing or chanting. It’s not so far away from work performed at St Paul St Gallery in the last Auckland Triennial back when Sehgal was still being billed as a dancer. He has usually insisted that his work is not photographed but the armed (seriously) guard didn’t make any effort to stop people at Venice so maybe he has abandoned the effort. 

Around the corner and another performance started up. Two young women suddenly threw themselves on the floor and started crawling around between visitors. More cameras came out until we all realised that one of them had broken her necklace and they were grappling for the small  scattered beads. Sehgal would have loved it. 
Images: Left Sehgal gets recorded in Venice and right the performance bead search in progress.

Finding gold in the Triennial maze

How do you find out what’s going on at the Auckland Triennial? There seem to be three web sites as well as a Twitter stream and Facebook. Search for the Auckland Triennial 2013 and as you'd expect you get as the number one hit aucklandtriennial.com But hang on, it turns out this isn't the site you really need. After a bit of is-this-the-best-we-can get action we literally stumbled on yet another Auckland Triennial website. Not easy to find as it isn’t mentioned on the Auckland Art Gallery site or the main Triennial site either and forget Google. But, if you scroll back to January on the FaceBook page it is mentioned a couple of times (and then never linked to again – they usually link to the other site). This much more informative site is called rather mysteriously triennial.sons. Is it some cunning ploy worked up by marketing? Will Triennial and Sons fool us all by stepping up and stepping out when we least expect it? In the meantime you can check it out and bookmark it here.