The IMA presents a talk by Berlin-based New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan, The Curtain, The Poodle, The Bodybuilder: Notes on Movement.

Buchanan has a BFA from Elam School of Fine Art, Auckland (2002), and an MA (Fine Art) from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (2007), and was a fine-arts researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2008–9). Her process begins in the archive, where encounters with particular sites, formats of display, structures for grouping material, or spaces where the processing of material is channelled into spatial and literary propositions. Her recent exhibitions include Looking As or Is Metronome in A-Z Sammlung Marzona at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Ruth Buchanan/Ayse Erkmen at Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland; Version Control at Arnolfini, Bristol; On Performance at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz; and Several Attentions at The Showroom, London. Buchanan publishes frequently, including artists books like The Weather, a Building (Sternberg Press, 2012) and Lying Freely (Casco Office for Art, Design, 2010).