Uncontainable-second-nature (Te Kore-Rongo-Hungaora) is curated by Ian Clothier with an advisory panel of Nina Czegledy, Trudy Lane and Tengaruru Wineera, for ISEA 2011 Istanbul. The exhibition crosses cultural and discipline boundaries. A cultural bridge has been constructed, providing a framework of both Maori and European knowledge. Five themes from within European and Maori world views [...]
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From the Bottom of an Ocean of Air – Tega Brain, Kirsty Boyle, Ramon Guardans
We are living at the bottom of an ocean of air. Ecologist and artist Ramon Guardans, teams up with artists Tega Brain and Kirsty Boyle to do some micro meteorology while on the SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens residency in New Plymouth.
Where was the Wind? – Ramon Guardans
During the SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens creative residency, Artist and Scientist Ramon Guardans took an air sample at the same time each day of the two week residency, sealing and placing it within a growing installation for the project. These captured air samples were traced in time using the NOAA HYSPLIT model to reveal their [...]
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light, sweet, cold, dark, crude_Aotearoa (2011)
This microevent consists of live video and audio based on underground water movement in Pukekura Park. The artists have been exploring its water flows and this understanding
will impact the video and audio they perform. Fernery House 1, Thursday Jan 27th, 21h-22h.
Remnant Breath – Keith Armstrong and Leah Barclay
Leah Barclay (AU) and Keith Armstrong (AU) (as part of Remnant/Emergency Artlab/SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens) invite you to an immersive sound walk on the Te Henui Walkway this Wednesday 26th January. The work invites an acute sensitisation to this place solely through the often ignored senses of sound. The 20 minute experience reveals remnant sonic [...]
Plume update: ‘PLUME: 4000 Varieties of Orange’ Raewyn Turner & Brian Harris
Emerging from PLUME, Raewyn Turner and Richard Newcomb, is a work in progress 4000 Varieties of Orange by Raewyn Turner and Brian Harris. This new work explores the idea that humans living in cultures have a distinct smell–which indicates that the smell of the food we eat, the flavour and fragrances may flow into the [...]
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Screening: Areosphere and Atmosphere
The debut launch of ‘Areosphere and Atmosphere’ will take place as a late night screening event at the New Plymouth observatory, Marsland Hill, New Plymouth. A double audio-visual projection including an experimental sound composition will be played on the dome.
Pollinator Frocks – Update
This update makes public a series of short experimental videos that develop the ‘Pollinator Frocks’ project (prototype clothing designed to attract and feed endangered pollinating insects). The three video shorts are works in progress and are representative of ‘process led’ research and practice currently in progress in New Plymouth, NZ as part of the SCANZ: Eco Sapiens 2011 residency, public events and exhibition.
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Adapting the worldscape of modernity to climate change — Ruth Irwin
It is well known that modern industrial “business as usual” is “very likely” (to use the IPCC’s technical term) to create a tipping point in the earth’s climate that will take us from the Holocene, through the Anthropocene and collapse to a new climatic Age altogether. This apocalyptic scenario is what Heidegger describes as the “proximity to the zone of nihilism”. Ironically, Heidegger regards this proximity as potentially the greatest possibility for transforming modernity towards a more authentic relation with the earth.
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Thriving in a World of Complexity – using Living Systems Thinking
Sunday 16th January, 9am, Owae Marae – In this workshop we will question long held assumptions and knowledge about how we make things happen in complex environments, communities and organisations where things are seldom black and white.
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