Our new video talks about the temporary and public artworks installed in Christchurch and Auckland as a part of the 6th SCAPE events.
Watch it below and don’t forget to tell us what you thought of the 6th SCAPE!
We spoke to SCAPE artist Darryn George about the 6th SCAPE, now that many of the planned events are completed, for his thoughts on how it went, and what role SCAPE may play in the redevelopment of Christchurch city.
Darryn George has been exhibiting regularly since he graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from Canterbury University in 1993. The Lambs’ Book of Life (Folder Wall) was both a painting and a sculpture on an enormous scale.
Previously designed for the former Government Life Tower Building in Cathedral Square, Darryn George’s revised work enveloped the newly exposed western wall of the Christchurch Civic Offices, formerly obscured by the St Elmo Courts Building.
George’s design was based upon an internal view of a filing cabinet drawer with the receding label tabs of suspended folders seen as a metaphor for the function of records and registers in Christian theology. The work brought a fresh sense of hope into an increasingly busy section of the central city.
Read his interview below!
We spoke to Art Space Executive Director and SCAPE Curatorial Group Convenor, Dr Blair French about the 6th SCAPE, now that many of the planned events are completed, for his thoughts on how it went, and what role SCAPE may play in the redevelopment of Christchurch city.
Read his interview below!
Many of the planned events for the 6th SCAPE have finished. How do you feel?
To be honest I think it’s hard to go past a simple sense of relief that we’ve collectively managed to realize as many artist projects as we have at this point given the extraordinary circumstances. There’s obviously some pride to be felt in that also, but mostly I’m happy for everyone more intimately involved in the realization of the works – the teams of people putting them together, some at a time when their own living and working situations had been so complicated (to put it mildly) by the earthquakes; the artists in particular; and the viewers of the works who animate them in their own way.
I’m very glad that we’ve been able to continue adapting to and working through new circumstances in order to fulfill our own commitments both to the artists involved in SCAPE and the Christchurch community.
Canterbury-based professional visual artists have the opportunity to spend twelve weeks at the renowned Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney!
The inaugural SCAPE Christchurch /Artspace Sydney residency will take place from August to November 2012.
SCAPE Passing Time artist, Anton Parsons, designed this t-shirt for the opening of the 6th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial.
The design depicts the number sequence 043504092010 (the hour, minute, day, month and year of the 4 September 2010 earthquake) which first changed the landscape of Christchurch and caused the postponement of SCAPE.
The t-shirt was produced only days before another tragic earthquake hit Christchurch on 22 February 2011.
Although the 6th SCAPE was unable to go ahead as planned on two occasions, this commemorative design will go on to represent this interrupted biennial in our fallen city.
The proceeds of the sale will go towards future SCAPE projects. SCAPE is a not-for-profit organisation and your purchase will help us to ensure the future of SCAPE.
There are only very limited numbers of these T.Shirts still available.
Sizes: XLarge or 2XLarge.
Style: Unisex
Colours: Black on white or white on black
Price: NZ$35.00 (plus postage and packaging)
Click HERE to buy a t-shirt.
Children have been creating fantastic city-scapes from recycled materials at the SCAPE Kids build a recyclable city workshops.
Children aged between six and twelve attended a workshop on 5 November at Creative Junk in Disraeli Street and created everything from tower cranes to circus-cities at the hour and a half workshop. Read More
Ahmet Öğüt’s interactive carousel, Waiting for a Bus, was originally conceived as a playful and thought-provoking alternative bus shelter to be located in Victoria Square. Later relocated to Rolleston Ave, the gently rotating carousel provided an invitation for people to enter, sit, stop and observe the slowly unfolding view of the altered city surrounding them.
This sculpture reflected Öğüt’s interest in patterns of social and public movement through urban spaces, and encouraged us to consider the daily occurrence of waiting, taking pause between more apparently significant periods of activity.
Location – Rolleston Avenue, adjacent to Canterbury Museum
Dates – 12 August – 2 October 2011
Further Information: www.ahmetogut.com
Can you rebuild your future city out of recyclable materials?
Kids’ Workshops ‘Rebuild a Recyclable City’ will be held on Saturday 5 November at 10.30- 12.00 & 1.30- 3.00 and Saturday 19 November 10.30- 12.00 & 1.30- 3.00 at Creative Junk, 25 Disraeli St, Addington.
Drawing inspiration from SCAPE Artist Joanna Langford’s The High Country, kids will have an opportunity to rebuild a favourite part of their city out of recyclable materials. We provide the materials, kids bring their imagination!
Price: $5
Bookings essential, limited to 12 per workshop. Suitable for 6–12 year olds.
Phone: Creative Junk 03 379 4040
Email:Christine@creativejunk.org.nz
OR children can use their imaginations to build a Rebuild a Recyclable City from found and recycled materials at home. We’ve put some ideas below about how you might go about it. Watch the video below for inspiration!
South Island artist Joanna Langford uses recyclable materials to build her fantastical cities. The work that Joanna envisioned for 6th SCAPE, The High Country, is a whimsical, futuristic city floating in the sky. The “clouds” are made from recycled sileage plastic wrap, and buildings from plastic bottles lit with LED lights.
To build your city you will need:
- Scissors, glue stick or PVA glue, tape, a newspaper covered work surface.
- Recycled and found materials which might include cardboard, newspaper, old magazines, fabric, plastic bags, plastic containers…
- You may also want to use: paint, felt pens, crayons or coloured pencils.
To make your future city:
- Brainstorm the favourite parts of your city (don’t forget the natural features e.g. parks, rivers, beach)
- Look at the recycled materials you have available – what parts of your city could they be made into? Think about how you can attach these to a base. You may like to use stiff cardboard to make a solid base for your city-scape.
- What is your vision for the future of your city – will the city have a theme – futuristic? historic? fantastical? garden city?
- If you wish, you can take a look at the video we’ve made to see what some other children created.
- In our video we used PVA glue to attach blue plastic paper for the sky and plastic bags for clouds were pushed through holes in the sky. Are you going to create a sky?
- Think about what you could use to make a river, paving, roads, paths, trees, parks, street furniture etc
- Create and decorate your buildings or fragments of city and fix them to the base.
- If you would like to share what you have made, email a picture of your artwork to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz with a short sentence telling us about your creation and we’ll load it to our facebook page www.facebook.com/SCAPEpublicart. Then ask your friends and family if they’d like to go and look at your art between the 21st and 25th November and “like” the creation that they think is best. You could win a $50 Voucher from The Drawing Room if you get the most votes!
Kids Rebuild a Recyclable City Facebook Competition Conditions
Children can enter as many times as they wish, however each entry must represent a completely new creation. We encourage group collaboration, however entries will only be valid if created by a maximum of two children. Children must be aged 13 and under.
Entries must be received prior to midday 20 November 2011. Voting will commence 21 November at 9am and close on 25 November at 5pm.
There is one prize which will be given to the child who receives the most “likes” in the online voting. The prize is a $50 voucher to The Drawing Room. If there is a draw in the voting result, the winners will each receive a voucher which represents an equal percentage of the total $50 prize.
We hope that you have fun building your recyclable cities!
Survey on the 6th SCAPE 2011 (You could win movie tickets!)
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We would appreciate you taking the time to fill in our SCAPE survey! You could win one of two prizes of two adult movie tickets to Hoyts!
If your children can’t attend the Rebuild a Recyclable City – Kids’ Workshop in November, you can pick up free art packs from any Christchurch City Library and have an arts and craft session over the school holidays!
SCAPE have put together a limited number of special packs for children to help them to rebuild a city-scape from their own imaginations out of recycled materials.
Packs are free and contain flat-packed recycled materials and an instruction sheet.
You can pick up the free art packs from the following Christchurch City Libraries that are open:
- Akaroa
- Bishopdale
- Central South City Library
- Diamond Harbour
- Fendalton Mini
- Halswell
- Hornby — extended hours
- Little River
- Linwood Mini
- Lyttelton Library
- Mobile — check the mobile library page for our daily schedule
- New Brighton
- Papanui
- Parklands
- Redwood
- Shirley Library
- South Library and South Learning Centre
- Spreydon Library
If you would like to share what you have made, email a picture of your artwork to christine@scapebiennial.org.nz with a short sentence telling us about your creation and we’ll load it to our Facebook page. We will accept entries until 20 November 2011
Then ask your friends and family if they’d like to go and look at your art between the 21st and 25th November and “like” the creation that they think is best.
You could win a $50 Voucher from The Drawing Room if you get the most ‘likes’!