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Miranda Parkes Building, Peterborough St, 23/07/2012
The period following the earthquake of 4 September 2010 was a strange moment in the history of Ōtautahi Christchurch. Rocked by aftershocks and still processing what had been lost or changed, the dazed city began to regroup and rebuild, unaware that a larger, more destructive earthquake lay in store. With her usual studio routines disrupted, Miranda Parkes recorded a series of ‘one-take’ videos, thick with the surreal emptiness of the moment. In this work, plastic used to protect an unfinished building from the elements tears free to flap in the wind, unravelling in an endless limbo.
(Absence, May 2023)
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Charles Meryon Presqu'île de Banks; Pointe dite 'Des Charbonniers,' Akaroa : Pêche à la Seine
Recalling a scene from the artist’s experience from nearly two decades earlier, this etching pictures a group of French naval hands fishing with seine nets in Akaroa Harbour, at a point once known as Charbonniers – most likely named for the charcoal making that took place there. A strong French presence in Akaroa had followed whaling captain Jean Langlois’s 1838 purchase from Ngāi Tahu of over 12,000 hectares on Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula. The French government intended to establish a colony and expand into the rest of Te Waipounamu / the South Island. These plans were blocked, however, by the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi by local rangatira (chiefs) Iwikau and Hone Tikao (John Love), at nearby Ōnuku on 30 May 1840, thereby paving the way instead for British colonisation.
(Te Wheke: Pathways Across Oceania, 2021)
