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Synopsis

A magazine show with an edge, The Living Room did for arts television production what Radio With Pictures did for NZ music — it ripped open the venetian blinds, rearranged the plastic-covered cushions, and shone the light on Aotearoa’s homegrown creative culture. Often letting the subjects film and present their own stories, it was produced for three series by Wellington’s Sticky Pictures. These excerpts from the second series have everything from outsider artist Martin Thompson making art from maths, to horror hamming it up with Taika's Incredible Show.

Background

A Perspective by Paul Stanley Ward 11.11.2008

As for the first series of this Sticky Pictures' production this iteration comprises ten half-hour episodes, each episode is divided into 4 segments, each profiling a different artist or group.

The art-making takes in music, painting, ...

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Credits (14)

 Mark Albiston
 Louis Sutherland
 Mike Bridgman

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