Roofs

Roofs

Having lived in the CBD on and off since I was 18 years old (I spent 2 years in Auckland but otherwise within the four Aves), it breaks my heart to see what has been taken away culturally as architecture.

Progress

Progress

Slow progress, but definitely progress

Glass head

Glass head

There's a head made of broken glass on some derelict land in St Asaph Street.

Viva Sydenham

Viva Sydenham

It seems a lifetime ago that we combined with Gap Filler to launch the Gallery's first post-quake Outer Spaces project in Sydenham. 

Ping!

Ping!

That's the sound the colours are making at the corner of St Asaph and Madras, where the Christchurch Art Gallery/SCAPE ArtBox is now fully wrapped in its high-key Bodytok 'skins'. (Love that first hit of pink -- seen through Parsons, past Trusttum -- in the long view travelling west...)

Pop, tick, slap, snap...

Pop, tick, slap, snap...

And those are some of the sounds you'll hear inside the ArtBox, when you step up to the screens and trigger some of the sixty performances recorded by Phil Dadson and sonicsfromscratch as part of the Bodytok project... With the SCAPE Biennial launching tonight, Bodytok's now officially open for business.

Ouch

Ouch

That looks like it hurts...

What's in the box?

What's in the box?

Nothing yet, and it looks very good that way.

Now you're talking

Now you're talking

The vinyl skins are going on, down at our new Outer Space in the ArtBox complex.

A book in the hand

A book in the hand

E-readers! Kindles! Digital publishing! Okay, whatever, calm down. Here's a lovely new slice of analogue publishing: the book of Bill Culbert's Venice project.

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