A photograph of street art near Fitzgerald Avenue. The artist is Benjamin Work.
A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer attributes the work to Deus. The art work is titled "Li'l Elliot".
A photograph of street art on the back wall of the AJ Creative Glass building on Fitzgerald Avenue. The photographer attributes the work to Deus. The art work is titled "Li'l Elliot".
Three leading artists: the singer Madeleine Pierard; the children's book illustrator Gavin Bishop and playwright and actor Jacob Rajan discuss why they create work with Paul Bushnell. Awa Press writer Jane Bowron reads from her book Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake.
Three leading artists: the singer Madeleine Pierard; the children's book illustrator Gavin Bishop and playwright and actor Jacob Rajan discuss why they create work with Paul Bushnell. Awa Press writer Jane Bowron reads from her book Old Bucky & Me: Dispatches from the Christchurch Earthquake.
A photograph of street art on Gloucester Street near Cathedral Junction. The title of the art work is "Kristen". The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD.
A photograph of street art on Gloucester Street near Cathedral Junction. The title of the art work is "Kristen". The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD.
A photograph of street art on Gloucester Street near Cathedral Junction. The title of the art work is "Kristen". The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD.
A photograph of a detail of street art on Gloucester Street near Cathedral Junction. The art work is titled "Kristen". The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD.
A photograph of a detail of street art on Gloucester Street near Cathedral Junction. The art work is titled "Kristen". The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD.
A photograph of street art in Colombo Street, Sydenham. The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD. The work is titled "Paris".
A photograph of street art in Colombo Street, Sydenham. The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD. The work is titled "Paris".
A photograph of street art in Colombo Street, Sydenham. The artists are Askew One and Mark TMD. The work is titled "Paris".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 09 January 2014 entitled, "Wastewater Work".
A photograph of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.
A photograph of a detail of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.
A photograph of a detail of street art on Fitzgerald Avenue. The work was created by DEOW on the back wall of AJ Glass, for the "From the Ground Up" project.
To address the provocation provided by the editors I wish to reflect upon the ongoing civic and artistic responses to the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010-11, in which 185 people lost their lives (largely due to poor engineering and construction practices). Whilst the example is very different in character from that of efforts to memorialize July 22, 2011, I wish to use the case to briefly respond to the issue of temporality as raised by Jacques Rancière in his critique of the ‘endless work of mourning’ produced by testimonial art. The orientation of this mourning, he argues, is always backward-looking, characterized by, ‘a reversal of the flow of time: the time turned towards an end to be accomplished – progress, emancipation or the Other – is replaced by that turned towards the catastrophe behind us.’ How might memorial practices divide their gaze between remembered pasts and possible futures? AM - Accepted Manuscript