4pm; Wednesday November 16
School of Design, Building One
Unitec
Carrington Road, Auckland
I have been invited to speak about my practice to Masters of Design students at Unitec in Auckland. I will discuss a selection of projects and offer some tactics for creative practice after graduation.
GPS trace from a 6.8km walk at the confluence of the Fox and Cook Rivers, South Westland, New Zealand.
This piece explores the propositional nature of mapping; the assertion that “this is there”. As a walked text piece the statement connects the direct experience of walking with a playfully banal statement of truth-testing.
Paired GPS drawing and digital video.
15 minute looping video
These paired images offer complementary ways of thinking about stillness in the context of Fox Glacier and any attempt to represent it through mapping. One is an image of my GPS location taken over a 15 minute interval while sitting still, with the GPS device subject to “drift” due to the geometry and material nature of the glacier. The other image is a still from a 15 minute video, recorded at the same times as the GPS drawing. The video records the subtle changes to the glacier in real time; melting, cracking and changing light conditions.
Vertically tracking video projection
7 minutes 44s
Constructed from video footage recorded while walking in Fox Glacier valley, this video slowly tracks up the space in which it is shown. It forms a vertical section of the landscape, from the Fox River, up the valley and finally on to Fox Glacier itself. The work attempts to create a spatial document of this environment without resorting to cartographic encoding, seeking a balance between abstraction and the experiential act of walking through the landscape.
As part of the experimental walking tour I undertook as part of the Art & Cartography workshop in Paris, I made a series of sound recordings of the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood. Using minimal editing, I have combined these recordings into a short audio piece.
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I have been invited to participate in an experimental walking tour of Paris, along with a number of other artists, architects and cartographers. This workshop is as an extension of the Mapping Processes and Practices : Arts, Maps and Society conference, which I presented at.
The group I was a member of toured the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood in the 18th arrondissement, and were then asked to make a collage/map that represented our impressions of the area.
Photos are by Anne-Kathrin Reuschel. For more information visit the Art & Cartography working group website.
compiled november 2010 to may 2011
mixtaped june 2011
featuring: the blessings, che fu/token village, conquering animal sound, darkstar, dilated peoples, disrupt, dj elmoe, dj nate, ducktails, flying lotus, gang starr, hudson mo, hype williams, king midas sound, lunice/brandy, mike slott, mount kimbie, nosaj thing, panda bear, pastels/tenniscoats, paul white, peaking lights, rustie, submariner, theophilus london/whitney houston, thirteen, tokimonsta, toro y moi, traxman, a tribe called quest, tshetsha boys, us3, velour and yeasayer.
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My paper, LAND. HERE. has been accepted for the workshop Mapping Processes and Practices: Arts, Maps and Society organised by the Society of the International Cartographic Association in collaboration with the Working Group on Arts and Cartography. The workshop will take place in Paris on July 2nd.
I will be presenting work from my recent Wild creations artist residency in Fox Glacier, New Zealand, this Tuesday from 4pm at the Art, Space + Nature studio, Edinburgh College of Art. The talk is organised and promoted by ASCUS : art science collaborative.
Stereo Field Recording
2min 15″
Recorded early morning, 9 December 2010.
This work approaches the physicality of Fox Glacier, through a recording of guiding staff maintaining access on to the glacier. Each day staff work to re-cut a series of steps and pathways into the surface, making modifications to allow for the melting and shifting of the ice. The materiality and physicality of this small scale and repetitive act is in turn linked to the larger scale dynamics of the glacier as a whole.
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GPS data collected over three week period.
This is an early sketch of some of the material gathered during my recent residency period in Fox Glacier, New Zealand. During the residency I undertook a dozen or so walks on the glacier, recording each route with a GPS device. With this work, my interests are in the experience of moving and navigating on the ice.
Resolving this piece of work will require an examination of the relationship between the line, movement and material experience, which I hope to achieve through a process of making physical and spatialising the collected GPS data.
At the conclusion of my residency in Fox Glacier township I gave a presentation to the local community. As well as work in progress, I showed past works and works by other contemporary artists, such as Jeremy Wood to contextualise my project. Approximately 50 people attended, which considering the town’s population of 350, was extremely pleasing.