Artwork Map
6th SCAPE 2011
The Art & Industry Biennial Trust are pleased to be able to present these 6th SCAPE artists’ projects after being twice interrupted by Christchurch’s earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011.
This year’s rethought event will achieve an even broader national audience; producing large-scale public artworks for temporary display in Auckland and Christchurch.
6th SCAPE will launch in Auckland in conjunction with the Auckland Art Fair 4-7 August, and in Christchurch on 12 August with the support of the Christchurch Arts Festival.
Christchurch
Ash Keating’s delivery of Gardensity as part of the 6th SCAPE could not have been more apt or timely for Christchurch.
First designed prior to the initial September 4 Canterbury earthquake, Gardensity was envisioned as a fictional property development to house new condensed, sustainable living located in Cathedral Square.
Keating enabled us to experience this vision through an architectural animation, site-specific installation and an internet presence that took on heightened importance as a location for public dialogue regarding the future, post-earthquake redevelopment of Christchurch.
Designed by Ash Keating in collaboration with Dorian Farr, Patrick Gavin, Chris Toovey and David Campbell.
Location - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu Forecourt
Online - www.gardensity.co.nz
Dates - 12 August - 16 October 2011
Video - http://www.scapebiennial.org.nz/2011-video
Further information: www.gardensity.co.nz
Ahmet Öğüt’s interactive carousel, Waiting for a Bus, was originally conceived as a playful and thought-provoking alternative bus shelter to be located in Victoria Square. Later relocated to Rolleston Ave, the gently rotating carousel provided an invitation for people to enter, sit, stop and observe the slowly unfolding view of the altered city surrounding them.
This sculpture reflected Öğüt's interest in patterns of social and public movement through urban spaces, and encouraged us to consider the daily occurrence of waiting, taking pause between more apparently significant periods of activity.
Location - Rolleston Avenue, adjacent to Canterbury Museum
Dates - 12 August - 2 October 2011
Hours that the carousel was rotating - Mon - Fri 10am - 3pm, Sat & Sun 10am - 6pm
Video - http://www.scapebiennial.org.nz/2011-video
Further Information: www.ahmetogut.com
The Lambs’ Book of Life (Folder Wall) was both a painting and a sculpture on an enormous scale.
Previously designed for the former Government Life Tower Building in Cathedral Square, Darryn George’s revised work enveloped the newly exposed western wall of the Christchurch Civic Offices, formerly obscured by the St Elmo Courts Building.
George’s design was based upon an internal view of a filing cabinet drawer with the receding label tabs of suspended folders seen as a metaphor for the function of records and registers in Christian theology. The work brought a fresh sense of hope into an increasingly busy section of the central city.
Location - Christchurch Civic Offices Building Montreal Street Wall
Dates - 12 August - 19 October 2011. (Please note this is earlier than the planned de-installation date of 30 November) Please read more here...
Further Information: www.darryngeorge.com
Joanna Langford’s work is a whimsical, visionary manifestation of a utopian city in the sky produced with recycled and existing materials.
Previously designed for a site now in the city's red zone, Langford's work will be located within a temporarily rebuilt and newly reopened section of the damanged inner-city, throwing into contrast Langford's vision for future redevelopment and Christchurch's new urban landscape.
Location and date - Negotiations continue to re-site Joanna Landford's 6th SCAPE artwork within the 2011 calendar year
Anton Parsons’ Passing Time, which was created for the 6th SCAPE, was installed only a few days prior to the earthquake of 22 February 2011—not long before the 6th SCAPE was due to open.
Although the city centre was shaken during the Christchurch earthquake, Passing Time continues to stand tall.
The work, commissioned by the Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group, CPIT and the CPIT Foundation, features twisting boxes depicting each year between 1906 (the founding of CPIT) and 2010 (the date of the sculpture’s production).
Location - Wilson Reserve, CPIT
Further information: www.antonparsons.co.nz
Auckland
Using different spaces of central Christchurch as the setting for 45 Attempts at Making Sculpture, a mobile sculpture project, Richard Maloy had planned to produce a new cardboard sculpture every day during the six weeks of SCAPE.
The artist aimed to engage with the urban space day after day unfolding (and refolding) cardboard into new sculptures, bringing art to public space.
Re-located to Auckland, Maloy condensed his focused ‘attempts’ down to five days, and engaged with the public spaces surrounding the Viaduct Events Centre.
Location - around the Viaduct Events Centre
Dates - Wednesday 3 August - 7pm - 10.30pm, Thursday 4 August - 11am - 6pm, Friday 5 August - 11am - 8pm, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 August - 10am - 6pm
Video - http://www.scapebiennial.org.nz/2011-video
Further Information: www.suecrockford.com
For the 6th SCAPE Ruth Watson was to present Swamp, an artwork for visitors to and residents of Christchurch to engage with the inner city streetscape at night.
Swamp was to consist of two large-scale outdoor video projections to be viewed at night along High Street. The imagery is both site-specific and open-ended in reference.
Re-worked for its re-presentation on Silo 6 along the Auckland Waterfront, the imagery presented as two separate moving images, showing sequences of water that flowed, reversed and flowed again.
Location - Silo Park, Wynard Quarter, Waterfront Auckland
Dates - 3-7 August 2011, 6pm - midnight
Video - http://www.scapebiennial.org.nz/2011-video
Further Information: www.tworooms.co.nz
For the 6th SCAPE Héctor Zamora’s temporary outdoor public sculpture envisioned many readily available, pre-fabricated glass house frames atop the banks of the Avon River in Victoria Square., Christchurch.
This large-scale installation, Muegano, was intended to generate reflections about the implications of the traditional house structure in Western culture and, as a comment on inner-city living and urban density, the artist saw this project as a way to examine urban Christchurch.
Muegano will be relocated to the Auckland Waterfront, as a re-articulation of the architectural environment in which the work was first inspired.
Date and Location - Negotiations and fundraising continue to re-site Muegano at this location within the 2011 calendar year.
Further information - www.lsd.com.mx
