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