SCAPE 2010

New Zealand’s premier biennial of art in public space, to be held in Christchurch from 24 September to 7 November 2010, has in the last 10 years established a platform for local, national and international artists to develop dynamic, critical and progressive new permanent and temporary public artworks.

SCAPE 2010 ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

Seven new large-scale temporary public artworks will join with four of the city’s permanent works to form a public art walkway from the Convention Centre in Kilmore Street to Wilson Reserve at the entrance to CPIT, during SCAPE 2010, the 6th Christchurch Biennial presented by the Art & Industry Biennial Trust.

For SCAPE 2010 the Trust is commissioning temporary works by Darryn George (New Zealand); Joanna Langford (New Zealand); Richard Maloy (New Zealand); Ruth Watson (New Zealand); Ash Keating (Australia); Ahmet Öğüt (Turkey/The Netherlands) and Hector Zamora (Mexico/Brazil).  Linking Blue at the Christchurch Convention Centre, Flour Power and Nucleus in High Street and the recently unveiled design for Passing Time at Wilson Reserve, these artists’ temporary artworks will form the SCAPE 2010 Public Art Walkway.

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NEW PUBLIC SCULPTURE TO BE UNVEILED AT SCAPE 2010

Passing Time is by Auckland-based sculptor Anton Parsons, a graduate of the University of Canterbury’s School of Fine Arts.  The work consists of a twisting ribbon of randomly linked boxes - with each box depicting one of the years between 1906 (founding of CPIT) and 2010 (the date of the sculpture’s installation).  The work can be walked around, walked through, touched and sat on.

“The winding form of the sculpture – placed on a street within the original 1851 grid plan commissioned by the Canterbury Association for their new settlement – is also a nod to the winding Avon River, an irregular feature of the landscape over which a street grid was placed,” says Anton Parsons.

The sculpture will be formally donated to the city on 23 September 2010 at the beginning of the SCAPE 2010.

Passing Time, Anton Parsons, 2010, Wilson Reserve (computer montage sculpture in situ)

ART AND THE CITY CENTRE: PROMPTING DISCUSSION ABOUT OUR URBAN ENVIRONMENT

The inner city is both the site and subject of SCAPE 2010.

Christchurch, like many cities all over the world, is looking to new urban planning and development models to create a more livable, populated and environmentally sustainable inner city.

SCAPE 2010 presents a set of artist projects which probe, refocus and enhance both existing experiences and future projections of the inner city as a collective, civic space.

Often aligned with inner-city life, artists are at times unwittingly or unwillingly at the leading edge of urban regeneration processes which can often physically and economically displace them. SCAPE 2010 creates a platform for artists to make physical interventions in the ‘scape’ of the inner city, and to undertake actions that traverse its streets, paths, lanes and vacant spaces.

These interventions and actions create reverberation in places abandoned and derelict and others already subject to regeneration initiatives and commercial development.

SCAPE 2010 projects are located at strategic sites within the inner city and linked by the SCAPE 2010 Public Art Walkway, with the SCAPE 2010 hub in Cathedral Square at its centre. Collectively these artists' projects will condense and intensify audience engagement with the works and the energy of the artworks’ and artists’ engagement with their locations.

Visitors will encounter sculptural structures and architectural modifications; utopian renditions of a future city and references to its history; artists working live within the city environment and artworks subject to climatic transformation through the six weeks of SCAPE 2010; projects that invite movement through the city and projects that invite their public to pause, sit and look. 

VACANCIES

Art Project Agents - SCAPE 2010
 
We are looking for students or volunteers with a background in Art History, Fine Art, , Curatorial Studies, Design, Education, Events Management, Film, Journalism or Landscape Architecture, to assist in the realisation of the SCAPE 2010 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space.

All Art Project Agents should be based in Christchurch.

Visit our Art Project Agents page for further information