Art Not Science

About Art Not Science

The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero is a broadcast of artist talks, sound art and discussion from our community. Dedicated to developing and promoting contemporary art and critical discourse in Aotearoa, The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero stems from our exhibition programming. Tune in every third Friday of the month. You can visit The Physics Room at 301 Montreal Street, The Arts Centre Registry Additions Building (access from The Market Square), Christchurch, New Zealand. We're open 10am-5pm from Tuesday to Friday, and 11am-4pm on weekends, and entry is free to all.

Publisher

James Tapsell-Kururangi and Jane Wallace

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2023

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026

   The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Episode 26: Sonic Hapori

   This is a guest episode from Sonic Hapori, a collective of artists based in Tāmaki Makaurau, working within the intersection of art and sound. Its current members include Anahera Jade, Ilish Thomas, Mariam Tawfik, and Milika Swann. This recording is a glimpse of the return of Rona, a sound system who first sang earlier this year during Matariki, and is activated here for a kaupapa with Samoa House Library, a street party on Karanga-a-hape Road. K'Road is embedded in the recording, with layers of street chatter.

2. 

   18 Sept 2026

   The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Episode 25 - Ashleigh Taupaki

   Curator Simon Palenski covers for Jane Wallace and is joined by Ashleigh Taupaki to speak about her artworks in her current exhibition with Tristen Harwood Gun, Paper, Obelisk. Simon and Ashleigh discuss archival voices, bureaucratic and unjust language, her historical research, site and non-site, and ways of visualising whakapapa.

3. 

   21 Aug 2026

   The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero - Episode 24: Tyne Gordon

   Curator Jane Wallace is joined by Tyne Gordon to speak about her solo exhibition Desert Rose, which recently closed at The Physics Room. Tyne and Jane discuss gypsum, time-keeping, The Yellow Wallpaper, their site visit to Ōtepoti, and literary and mechanical technologies of reading.

Who has been a guest on Art Not Science

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ngamako Rota
• Jan Joel Cocks
• Tarren Johnson
• Steven Junil Park

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

243

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

4.3 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

11

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

50