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29th August - 1st September
David Cakes, The Sugar Star.
Director/Writer/Editor/Score - Joshua Taylor
Assistant Puppeteer - Freya Finch
Poster Photography - Daniel Leigh
Poster Design - George Pengelly
Starring: Bob Ford as David Cakes
Ihaia Ngata as Daniel’s mate
James Tyler, Lucy Brewerton, George Pengelly, Ihaia Ngata as Cake Eaters
Featuring artworks by:
Susan Te Kahurangi King
Claudia Kogachi
Hannah Ireland
From his bungalow in rural Huntley NZ David Cake’s shares his story. A seemingly simple life, Cakes subscribes to the William Morris philosophy “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful”. Taylor’s film reveals the subjectivity of this philosophy through the eyes of David Cakes. The puppet shows us an array of crafted treasures from which he draws inspiration. He settles on a drawing hanging in his house by outsider artist Susan Te Kahurangi King depicting a cake flying through the air. Cakes ponders on his ability to recreate the lines of crayon as cake icing. He has a serene acceptance of the imminent destruction of the cake depicted by King. Cakes finds beauty in the ephemeral nature of his craft and a profundity in his connection to other art forms.
Josh’s practice is informed equally by his background as a designer(Industrial design BDes (Hons) at Massey University Wellington) as wellas his ceramics work (Josh completed a one year residency at theprestigious Troy Town Pottery). Despite Josh’s experience behind thepottery wheel his creations; lamps, all manner of vessels & clocksclearly depart from the usual utilitarian brackets of ceramics traditions.Josh’s works are irreverent, whimsical and sometimes humorous with abeauty which comes from both the tradition of the amateur and thecraftsperson. His practice is instinctive with an openness to a wide rangeof media, giving his work the reflective nature displayed so naturally in hisvideo piece David Cakes, The Sugar Star.
SYSTEMA is an annual gathering of non-profit and collaborative arts initiatives. This year the festival will take place from 29 August to 1 September at the Palais Carli, a landmarked building and former Institute of Fine Arts in the central first district of Marseille.