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)
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Creator of Passing Time is Auckland based artist Anton Parsons, one of New Zealand’s leading sculptors.
Anton Parsons was born 1968 in Palmerston North, and currently lives and works in Auckland. He graduated from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1990. His work is held in public and private collections throughout New Zealand.
Anton’s practice has embraced a wide range of media and modes: industrial materials, readymade objects, photography and installation. His works engage physical space in profound, often unsettling ways through the apparently very simple means.
After the finishing touches were put on Passing Time in Auckland it was transported to its site in Christchurch – the High Street entrance to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT).
Before it could be installed the foundation had to be laid. Watch the video as construction workers remove the paving stones and laid the concrete ready for installation.
The CPIT Foundation, which helped fund the Anton Parson’s Passing Time as a part of the 6th SCAPE Biennial, was established in 1984 to assist Christchurch Polytechnic’s 50,000 staff and students with enterprising projects.
Over the years it has received donations from individuals, companies and the Polytechnic itself to build its funding base to a level that can help make a difference.
Follow the progress of Passing Time by Anton Parsons from when it was constructed in Auckland to when to was transported to Christchurch and installed on the current site at Wilson Reserve, at the High Street entrance to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT).
Watch the video below as the numbers for the sculpture are water cut ready for installation, and as the final parts of the structure are put together.
Passing Time is commissioned by Christchurch City Council and CPIT with funding from the CPIT Foundation. It is a number loop depicting each year between 1906 (the founding of CPIT) and 2010 (the year of the sculpture’s intended installation). It took close to a year to complete the sculpture, from the initial proposal to the finished work being completed.
The structure starts coming together.
Anton Parsons, creator of Passing Time, will be taking part in a panel discussion “The City as a Memory” on September 10th as a part of the 6th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space with the support of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga, The Press Festival of Ideas and the Christchurch Arts Festival.
The panel will discuss the intersection of social history and architectural inheritance as a facilitator of the creation of place.
SCAPE has finally opened after nine months of re-thinking and re-scheduling due to the Christchurch earthquakes. It is not just a celebration of new art for Christchurch, but a celebration of the fortitude and persistence of the artists, their partners in industry and the SCAPE team.
“The SCAPE team have finally thwarted the earthquakes to launch our artworks. The artists have created works which may give Christchurch people a new perspective on the future development of our city,” says Director of SCAPE, Deborah McCormick
Passing Time is installed at Wilson Reserve, at the entrance to CPIT.
Anton Parsons 'Passing Time'
Installation of the city’s newest sculpture is underway!
Passing Time has arrived in Christchurch and is currently being installed at Wilson Reserve, at the High Street entrance to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT).
Anton Parsons’ new sculpture Passing Time will be dedicated at Wilson Reserve, at the High Street entrance to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) on Saturday 5 March at 4pm, at the beginning of the SCAPE 2010 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space.
The work – commissioned by the CPIT Foundation and the Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group – is a number loop depicting each year between 1906 (the founding of CPIT) and 2010 (the year of the sculpture’s installation). It has taken close to a year to complete the sculpture, from the initial proposal to the finished work being installed on site.
The making of 'Passing Time'
Passing Time by Anton Parsons is almost installed, watch the video below to see how the foundations were installed.
Passing Time is located on Wilson Reserve, at the High Street entrance to the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) and will be dedicated as part of a public parade in the city on Saturday 5 March.
The sculpture is a gift to the city from the Christchurch City Council, CPIT and the CPIT Foundation (which provides support for enterprising projects). Passing Time was chosen by a commissioning group including representatives of CPIT and members of the Christchurch City Council’s Public Art Advisory Group, which was formed to advocate and encourage the commissioning of public works of art. The new work continues the linked route of public sculptures that starts in Cathedral Square with the Chalice (2000) and takes in Flour Power (Stewart Plaza, 2008) and Nucleus (corner of Lichfield, High and Manchester Streets, 2006) on its way to CPIT.
SCAPE 2010 was postponed due to the September 4th Christchurch Earthquake. However Christchurch is now back on it’s feet and new dates for the 6th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space have been announced. SCAPE will now be held in Christchurch from 4 March to 17 April 2011.
Watch the teaser trailer below to hear from Bob Blyth, Chairman of the Art & Industry Biennial Trust, and Deborah McCormick, Director of the Art & Industry Biennial Trust about the new plan for SCAPE; and see a preview of Anton Parsons Passing Time sculpture.
The CPIT Foundation and Christchurch City Council (CCC) are joint commissioners of Passing Time by Anton Parsons.
