Land Wars part 2: build
[aaa], Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Harrell Fletcher, Abi King-Jones & Errol Wright, Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, Louise Menzies, Kim Paton, Marjetica Potrc, Andrew Ross, Michael Shepherd, AD Schierning
03 April 2008 - 28 June 2008
Land Wars is a major project held at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in 2008 over several platforms.
Who has control over land, and who doesn't? What are the changing circumstances for land use?
These are some of the most pressing questions of our time. However, the battles over land in New Zealand today are fought through money and legislation, rather than the military battles of old. Presenting work by both international and local artists, the Land Wars exhibitions reveal the complex negotiations land is subject to, our anxieties and fears around its control, and various strategies of resistance.
Build, the second stage of Land Wars, is an exhibition exploring development, gentrification and squatting politics, urban sprawl and the tension between civic, commercial and personal interests. Including both local and international artists, Land War: Build takes the contemporary New Zealand situation as a starting point. Does the demise of the quarter acre section really threaten the Kiwi psyche? Who owns the beaches? What is a sustainable city? How and where do we want to live?
[aaa] (Paris), Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri (Bethlehem/Tehran), Harrell Fletcher (San Francisco), Abi King-Jones & Errol Wright (Wellington), Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser (Berlin), Louise Menzies (Auckland), Kim Paton (Raglan), Marjetica Potrč (Ljubljana), Andrew Ross (Wellington), Michael Shepherd (Auckland)
Purchase The Land Wars Reader
Learn more about A.D.Schiernings Freedom Fruit Gardens project
Audio
Te Tuhi has iPod audio guides available for many exhibitions and events.
Listen to Curator Emma Bugden in conversation with photographer Andrew Ross
Listen to Auckland based artist A.D.Schierning discuss her Freedom Fruit Gardens project.
Downloads
Versailles 2008
Michael Shepherd oil on linen Courtesy of Jane Sanders, Auckland
still from The Last Resort 2006
Abi King-Jones & Errol Wright
Documentary film, 92 mins
Courtesy of Cut Cut Cut productions
Everything Thought and Remembered 2007
Kim Paton
mixed media construction
Courtesy of the artist
Free-dom Gardens 2008 (detail)
A. D. Schierning
manderin tree, recycled wood garden bench
Courtesy of the artist
