Petri Saarikko, Aotea it’s our fault too, Bathymetry data by NIWA. 2015.

Exhibition

Petri Saarikko - Aotea it’s our fault too

  • 15 May 2015
  • 17:30
  • Te Whare Hēra Gallery
  • Free Admission

Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too / Curated by Petri Saarikko

Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too explored the human generated notion of ‘fault’ as a social and cultural phenomena. For this exhibition, artists were invited to create reactive works, these included two video interviews discussing local natural earthquake forces; one looking through the indigenous Māori perspective and the other through scientific lens. The Aotea fault line underlying Te Whare Hēra Gallery was visualised and objectified as a 3D topographic printout that takes in the scope and scale of the hidden fault line.

The exhibition explored the thematic of Fault/fault along both social and physical lines, taking in subjects such as human error and violations of nature and territory. Faults operate both geographically and socially rejecting human authority and reclaiming human occupancy violently, they also oppose the linearity of time and space, disarming our notions of safety in the built environment.

Artists and practitioners:

  • Shannon Te Ao
  • Kura Puke & Stuart Foster
  • Malcolm Doidge
  • Helen Mitchell
  • Ann Shelton
  • Angela Kilford
  • Ihaia Puketapu
  • Lauren Redican & Annsuli Marais
  • Bronwyn HollowaySmith
  • Petri Saarikko
  • Darren Ward
  • JeanUlrik Desert
  • Sasha Huber
  • Rebecca Pilcher
  • Tom Hoyle
  • Supphawut Supanun

Special thanks:

  • Dr Philip Barnes, NIWA
  • Dr Iain Dawe, Wellington City Council
  • John Gibson, Wellington City Council
  • Tim Larkin, Massey University
  • Tam Webster, Massey University
  • Stuart Foster, Massey University, FabLab
  • Gray Hodgkinson, Massey University
  • Allan Brown, Wellington Waterfront

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.

  • Aotea: It’s Our Fault Too, Te Whare Hēra Gallery. 2015. Photograph by Tom Hoyle.