Art

Public presentation and curation: Dunedin Dream Brokerage

I am one of a group of four trustees (Hoe Akau) who facilitate the Dunedin Dream Brokerage a charitable public arts organization that brings life into empty urban and retail environments through brokering a lively programme of creative project occupation. We work with property owners, artists, individuals and community groups to broker the temporary use of space, producing between 12 – 20 projects per year.
Dunedin Dream Brokerage:
• Supports the work of creatives and increase citizen engagement and local storytelling
• Reduces vacant space and activate the city’s under-utilised buildings and spaces for creative purpose
• Delivers a lively and diverse programme of experiences and events that celebrate our city.

Kindly supported by the Dunedin City Council and Otago Polytechnic.

Image: Dunedin Dream Brokerage screenshot of website showing a variety of recent presentations.
Image: Dunedin Dream Brokerage screenshot of website showing a variety of recent presentations.

Sounding

Sounding is a series of exhibitions produced with artist Vicki Smith. This work began as a response to oil and gas exploration permits being opened up off the coast of Otago, the south east of New Zealand. I collaborated with Vicki, and together we developed great working relationships with marine scientists, sound designers and creative technologists to develop and present a highly engaging exhibition that was exhibited in New Zealand and Canada. Sounding Walks was an additional walking presentation of the work, where umbrellas were developed with technology that responded to transmitters in the environment to play sound tracks and encourage lively conversations with and between scientists and walkers, mimicking the scale and processes of local whales.

https://www.academia.edu/98121458/Sounding_Walks_Evoking_Empathy_through_Social_Sound_and_Walking_Practices

https://ako.ac.nz/programmes-and-services/te-whatu-kairangi/awardee-community/2014-tertiary-teaching-excellence-awardees/caro-mccaw

Awash

Awash was a short performance involving the audience. Re-enacting the former tideline audience-performers created a human wave as they crossed the street back and forth ten times. awash2 copy
Set at the point of high tide (now several hundred metres away due to land reclamation in the 1930s) walkers were accompanied by sound effects of the beach through dialing an 0800 number.

Awash was presented in QUBIT performance art festival, and hosted at the Anteroom Port Chalmers. Audio created by Leyton Glen.

http://artbash.co.nz/events/performances/qubit-a-weekend-of-contemporary-performance-art

Engaged

A cell phone sim-phonia, interactive performance using cell phones, Sound in the Cracks music festival, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2008 Dunedin Fringe Festival, New Zealand. Around 80 audience members participated in sim-phonia.

One Day Sculpture Dunedin

ODS sallyCo-curator with Rachael Gillies, One Day Sculpture Dunedin brought New Zealand artists Douglas Bagnall and Adam Hyde, together with collaborating Scottish duo Walker & Bromwich, to present two related works on Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua in Dunedin’s Otago Harbour in early December 2008. The works were collected under the event name ‘Intertidal’ and were presented two hours either side of low tide. ODS intertidal_creditCharlotteDick

Images by Tim Bishop and Charlotte Parallel.
Official site here

Animalia: Remix

An Augmented Reality game, produced with the HITlab, Canterbury University and Creative NZ. animalia rat head

Animalia: Remix was exhibited at:
• Zero One San Jose, Electronic Arts festival in conjunction with ISEA 2006, San Jose Children’s Discovery Museum, California, USA.
• The New Dowse Gallery, 2007, Hutt City, New Zealand.
• Still Moving festival, Corbans Estate, Waitakere City, New Zealand 2006.
• Converge, Christchurch Convention Centre 2005.animalia screen shot1

Collaboration with Angela Main and The HITLab, New Zealand.

*The Picnic*

*The Picnic* was an site-specific art event spanning 4 locations over 4 hours in October 2000. DEVILS FOODsmOver 70 artists and designers presented new works, with a live MUD connecting artists and audiences. *The Picnic* employed the theme of a temporarily emplaced social event to trace new psychogeographies between and within public spaces and art practices in New Zealand and an emerging digital awareness.

in 2002 a book and CD with music and animations was launched at ARC Cafe in Dunedin, with an associated event *The Picnic International Party*. Images here are from the book showing work by Douglas Kelaher, Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Penny Hagen, Regan Gentry.

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@punnet

An independent art project for the 1993 Wellington Fringe Festival, @punnet explored the emerging internet, resulting in the publication of 4 freely distributed newspapers.PUNNETsm
A collaboration with David Merritt, Danny Butt, Martin Kean, Douglas Bagnall, Lissa Mitchell, Isolde Cumberbeach and Andrea Brown.

 

https://www.librarything.com/work/15813809