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To live somewhere is to dwell. Do we dwell in a home and neighbourhood?1In this multi-media exhibition, concepts of housing-justice and inner-city dwelling are explored through combinations of conversation, contextualised by recordings of diegetic sound, with fragments of the places, spaces and faces which define our neighbourhood, observed and reflected upon.
In a long-running collaboration, artists Shadow, Te Totoro, Yaron Tana, and Dieneke Jansen traverse audio-visual processes, manifesting dialogues recorded with locals of Karanga-a-Hape. Rangatahi from the Kick Back Rangatira Rōpū contributed photography, video and audio files that collaborators worked with to create the exhibition. Kick Back’s project, The Front Door is a hub for young people experiencing or at-risk of homelessness or unstable housing in Tāmaki Makaurau.2 Moving images, sound, monologues, dialogues, photographs, and posters evoking the spaces beyond the gallery walls are brought in, establishing dialogues between the makers, their communities and the Audio Foundation as an Arts Organisation embedded in a spatial, social, political context.
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.3
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1. Artist notes
2. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350275993/auckland-rangatahi-create-space-risk-homeless-youth
3. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Exhibition opens: Thursday 20 March, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 19 April
Artist Bios:
Shadow
Shadow has collaborated with Dieneke since Radio No Fixed Abode and in two exhibitions Artspace Aotearoa; Shadow’s Studio: Chatting with Scones & Backdoor Doorbell Studios (2022). Continued collaborations include two Te Mātāwai projects Who’s Who: Knowing Your Neighbour and Knowing Your Neighbour a Bit More (2024). In 2020 Shadow accompanied the Hobson Street Theatre Company to Rotterdam as their photographer and videographer, and he regularly works as a photographer for Lifewise.
Te Totoro
Te Totoro works across a range of creative practices including printmaking and handcrafts and attends Toi Ora. Te joined Dieneke and Shadow to collaborate on Te Mātāwai projects Who’s Who: Knowing Your Neighbour and Knowing Your Neighbour a Bit More.
Yaron Tana
Yaron Tana is a digital artist from Whangarei with a particular interest in graphic design, 3D design, as well as experimental photo, audio and video editing. Yaron joined Dieneke, Shadow and Te to collaborate on the Te Mātāwai project Knowing Your Neighbour a Bit More.
Dieneke Jansen
Dieneke Jansen is an artist living and working in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in expanded fields of lens-based documentary and social practices. Her art practice explores relational dimensions of lens-based documentary practice with collaborative events of making and exhibiting that has more recently focused on Tāmaki Makaurau’s inner-city dwellers and their local art community.
For more information on The Front Door:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350275993/auckland-rangatahi-create-space-risk-homeless-youth
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