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Direct to You From Henderson
On 11 February 2011, in a cliff-top house overlooking the Avon/Heathcote estuary in Christchurch, Michael Parekowhai offered an invitation. It was to the unveiling of his Venice biennale-bound installation, On first looking into Chapman’s Homer, to be held in Henderson, near Auckland, on 13 March. But just eleven days later, that house and the city of Christchurch were turned upside down, and the future many of those present had been looking forward to that evening was upset.