3RD Nature involves creativity and innovation at the intersection of three critical interfaces:
*Acknowledging the environmental crisis
*Engaging with Maori and indigenous peoples
*Engaging with Earth Sciences and the Hybrid Arts
The project consists of a Residency; Exhibitions – Museum, Botanic Garden; Pecha Kucha Night; Presentation Evening; Symposium and Catalogue. An Open Call has been made, with expressions of interest due by February 15th, 2012.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
