Making Life a Forest
2020
Two single-channel HD digital video with sound
Made with support from Creative New Zealand
From the Ground Up: Community Cultivation and Commensality. Dowse Art Museum,
Hutt City, 2020
(curated by Grace Ryder)
Two artist’s films exploring how kindness and care is embodied within two local community initiatives, by follow the transformations that occur in both initiatives: composting, growing, foraging and harvesting.
The installation consider the public museum as a site for sharing precious local stories by offering a place to slow down and experience the moments of kinship between humans and the natural world and the possibilities for diverse co-existence and care with our local environments.
Common Unity Project Aotearoa is a Te Awakairangi Hutt Valley-based initiative where farms sprout in schools and prison grounds and the harvests are made into children’s lunches by volunteers. Manawa Karioi, in Te Whanganui- a-Tara Wellington, is one of the region’s oldest reforestation projects, where land is restored to a forest ecosystem through collective effort to be enjoyed by native birds and humans alike.
Reviews/essays:
Robyn Maree Pickens, Reparative Intimacy, ArtNow
Zoë Heine, Making Like a Forest: An Interview with Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror, Pantograph Punch
Mia Gaudin, Artists as Environmentalists: A Review of From the Ground Up, Pantograph Punch
Installation photos by Ted Whitaker
2020
Two single-channel HD digital video with sound
Made with support from Creative New Zealand
From the Ground Up: Community Cultivation and Commensality. Dowse Art Museum,
Hutt City, 2020
(curated by Grace Ryder)
Two artist’s films exploring how kindness and care is embodied within two local community initiatives, by follow the transformations that occur in both initiatives: composting, growing, foraging and harvesting.
The installation consider the public museum as a site for sharing precious local stories by offering a place to slow down and experience the moments of kinship between humans and the natural world and the possibilities for diverse co-existence and care with our local environments.
Common Unity Project Aotearoa is a Te Awakairangi Hutt Valley-based initiative where farms sprout in schools and prison grounds and the harvests are made into children’s lunches by volunteers. Manawa Karioi, in Te Whanganui- a-Tara Wellington, is one of the region’s oldest reforestation projects, where land is restored to a forest ecosystem through collective effort to be enjoyed by native birds and humans alike.
Reviews/essays:
Robyn Maree Pickens, Reparative Intimacy, ArtNow
Zoë Heine, Making Like a Forest: An Interview with Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror, Pantograph Punch
Mia Gaudin, Artists as Environmentalists: A Review of From the Ground Up, Pantograph Punch
Installation photos by Ted Whitaker
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