Still frames taken from performance-to-camera piece.
Charcoal and pen drawing on nylon, video projection.
20 minutes 25s
produced with assistance from Jemma Nissen and the support of Kathy Waghorn.

This performance piece reconstructs a series of walks on Fox Glacier, which were recorded via a GPS device. Five routes are traced, building up a drawing that reveals common routes and landmarks used in navigating the glacier. The quality of line/movement reflects the experience of moving across this jagged and icy terrain. The projected images are views of the glacier surface, taken from standing height, which slowly zoom, pan and dissolve into each other.

The act of drawing these routes conflates scales of the experiential, bodily and cartographic, where walking becomes digital code becomes drawing becomes moving image. Glacier Tracer uses experiential and abstract strategies for representing landscape, through a process of drawing myself into the landscape.

compiled december 2011 to january 2012
mixtaped january 2012

featuring: A$AP rocky, africa hitech, animal collective, bone thugs-n-harmony, cypress hill, dibiase, dj earl, fennesz, gang gang dance, hertta lussu ässa, kemialliset ystävät, king midas sound (ggd remix), kingdom, korallreven, kuedo, lunice feat. azealia banks, missy elliott, múm, naughty by nature, paavoharju, rustie, samiyam, snoop doggy dogg, tomutonttu, warren g feat. nate dogg, the weeknd and zomby.

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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.