Curated by Melanie Oliver
Persistency
25 Jul — 29 Aug 2015
Daegan Wells, tape measure, film still 2015
Tim J Veling, Maling Street, Avonside Residential Red Zone, Christchurch 2014: Demolished social housing area, from the Vestiges series, 2014-ongoing.
Daegan Wells, 'Tape measure', 2015, Two-channel video (2:06 mins)
Daegan Wells, 'Untitled (Extracts from Lodgings, Residential Red Zone, 57 Banks Ave)', 2015
Slate, nylon
Daegan Wells, 'Untitled (Extracts from Lodgings, Residential Red Zone, 57 Banks Ave)', 2015
Slate, nylon
Daegan Wells, 'Untitled (Extracts from Lodgings, Residential Red Zone, 57 Banks Ave)', 2015
Concrete, fabric
Daegan Wells, 'Untitled (Extracts from Lodgings, Residential Red Zone, 57 Banks Ave)', 2015
Fabric
Daegan Wells, 'Untitled (Extracts from Lodgings, Residential Red Zone, 57 Banks Ave)', 2015
Concrete, slate, fabric, nylon
installation view
Stuntdubs, Quaked
Christchurch 2011
Skate video
Stuntdubs, Quaked
Christchurch 2011
Skate video
CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive
Radio NZ reports
Women's Voices Interviews, Women's Voices is an oral history project created by National Council of Women of New Zealand
installation view
installation view
Tim J Veling, 'Lois Place, Avonside Residential Red Zone', Christchurch, 2014
Discarded chemical toilet
Tim J Veling, 'Maling Street, Avonside Residential Red Zone', Christchurch, 2014. Demolished social housing area.
Featuring Tim J Veling and Daegan Wells
Thursday 30 July 5.30pm
Art, Activism and Democracy
Panel discussion: Bruce Russell, Melanie Oliver, Tim J Veling
Thursday 6 August 5.30pm
Constructing the CEISMIC archive
Rosalee Jenkins from Canterbury Earthquake Digital Archive
The exhibition Persistency features various documents made in Christchurch’s public space subsequent to the earthquakes. Although quiet undertakings, the works of Tim J Veling and Daegan Wells imply the erosion of democracy in the city. The disempowerment of Canterbury people was experienced through the enforced clearing of the residential red zone; delayed public access to the central city red zone; the drafting process of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority blueprint plan; a series of school closures; failure to address the social housing crisis; and lack of public discussion around urban design issues. These decisions have long term effects for the city.
Persistency also includes records of protests, graffiti, urban exploration, foraging and salvage projects: small actions performed in spite of the challenging conditions. Together these documents generate an alternative or parallel reading of recent events, questioning the construction of urban narratives and asserting the ongoing need to participate in public discourse.
Audio
Panel discussion
Video
Daegan Wells, Bricks, 2015
