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Disruptive Landscapes: Contemporary Art from Japan
Quietly powerful and immersive video works revealing the politics behind our view of landscape.
John Vea: Ini Mini Mani Mou
Powerful new work examining the complexities of the immigration process in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Dear Shurrie
The art, influence and friendships of sculptor and teacher Francis Shurrock
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What they did with Christchurch cathedral
Lunchtime on a shining summer's day and you head for the ruin of Christchurch Cathedral. If you get there by twelve you can usually nab one of the bench seats along the back wall, where sun buckets down through the long-gone roof and warms the stonework behind you.
Another Brick In The Wall
Coming across an undamaged, fully standing, curved brick wall in the battered eastern suburbs is something of a rarity.
Steeple people
Having just come back to Christchurch after seven months overseas, I've been clocking up plenty of where's-it-gone and what-went-there and where-the-hell-am-I moments.
Heavy-metal crochet
Whoever's renting wire-mesh fencing in Christchurch must be smiling all way to the money machine. Thousands of panels still line the inner-city red zones, and it doesn't look like they'll be disappearing any time soon.
Toy Love
Big congratualtions to Toy Love on their New Zealand Herald Legacy Award, which was presented to the band at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards last week.
Christchurch - get ready to have your colours done...
Melbourne-based artist Ash Keating is in town and is preparing to launch an all-out assault on concrete blandness with waterbombs, fire extinguishers, weed throwers and other paint-propelling devices.