Ravel-Unravel & Over Unity

New videos working with space and movement.

Ravel
O.U.

Blind drawings at Silence Festival

Drawn at Silence Festival as an alternate way to record live events, and so that audiences can see drawings in process.

Demo versions; Chameleon & Only Bones

The first creation period for Chameleon..
Video from rehearsals here.

Tape head to floor

Video Stills from, Tape head to floor. From, Exit, at DSA Gallery.

Auction for Wellington Rape Crisis

Walda

Globes from Cutaneous Crush exhibition

Details from, Cutaneous Crush, exhibition at The Russian Frost Farmers.
Resin, glass, polymer, native timber.

Photos: Anne Basquin

The Park

Watercolour. 210 x 148 mm

Bubble gum tongue

I'm glad you could make it It's nice to see you here I really wanted you to see my work It's good to see you I really wanted you to be here You smell nice like a summer breeze clean like you've just showered but spicy and mysterious You make me look good I want to get close with you We're almost touching did you know When you hold your glass you are holding me Your soft fingers on my forehead Can you feel my breath on your neck One time i lay on the grass in a cow paddock I lay very still and all the cows came over to me and put their noses close to my neck and face and they were breathing heavy warm breaths You know the earth's not tricking you It's essential stuff Stuff this take me outside and dig a hole Let's dig throwing dirt like crazy It's getting all over your shirt but you don't care You're reckless like that I want to Let me climb up to wiggle through you slipping embryonic massaging organs It's rosy tinted here behind your skin One day when you and I are one our bodies merging my knees making buns with your knees our fingers fusing to form endless loops through arms No more pointing Your blood becomes my saliva I can taste your plans and my hair plants roots onto your face our tongues make bubble gum writhing together one tongue.

For Romance

The word, ROMANCE, carved by chainsaw for Cutaneous Crush at The Russian Frost Farmers

Photos: Anne Basquin

12 Steps to fuzzy logic. Risograph prints shown at Artspace gallery

Prospecting; Helsinki version, 2011. A 15 minute performance at 1am.

Digging and digging through concrete. Dropping spoons, picking them up, dropping spoons, picking them up.



A situational performance. With support from Ptarmigan and Arteles Creative Centre

An invited audience were looking through the glass wall of a cosy cafe while passers by created an impromtu outdoor audience. 

Read about the project and those of other residents in the Arteles Catalogue

Spitdrool, 2010

Let’s Roar Loudly; Feminism & Art Symposium, We Are Optimistic, 
Dunedin, New Zealand

Bias binding is looped around the audience. The screen image shows one woman spitting / drooling onto another woman who does not react or resist. As one performer removes stars from her face, the other sticks stars onto her face.

We Are Moving Forward Positively. Participatory project in collaboration with Matt Gillies.

Visitors were invited to transform survey answers into poems or character collages. We then sent the results back to the person who had been surveyed.

We set up our office first in an art gallery, then in a railway station container beside a busy train station.

Artists Alliance writes about We Are Moving Forward Positively 

Stage two: Visitors making cut 'n' paste poems and character collages.

1. The artists phone call centre operators to survey them while they are at work. They ask questions 
about the operator's relationship to their working environment.

2.  An office environment is installed in a shipping container near Wellington Railway station. Visitors to the shipping container are invited to choose a completed survey and make a cut 'n paste poem or character collage relating to the surveyee's answers.

3. Cut 'n' paste poems and character collages are posted to the call centre operators who were surveyed in step 1.

BUYMAKETAKEITBACK at the Blue Oyster gallery

Grad '07, Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand

Space for sculptures with one object // Space for sculptures with three objects //
Space for sculptures with five objects

Space for sculptures with three objects

Excerpt from Recipes for making sculpture...

OCTAGON THE TOWN SQUARE

COLLECTION OF ITEMS PURCHASED EARLIER

RECEIPT RETAINED

SANDWICH BOARD PUT OUT IN THE MORNING

"SCULPTURES EVERY 3 MINUTES

FOR 30 MINUTES"

ITEMS RETURNED TO PLACE OF PURCHACE