3rd Nature Exhibition Online Catalogue
Te Taiao Māori by Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru in Te Takapou Whāriki o Taranaki. The words are from Dr Waikerepuru and form a chart of Māori cosmology. The lines in the background of the projection are rotating stars.
1. Te Taiao Māori 2011
Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru
Mātauranga Māori, animated text with photo-astronomy by Paul Moss
Running time: 4 minutes
Curated by Ian Clothier, the works in SCANZ 2013 3rd nature exhibition spiral from the Puke Ariki Museum gallery Te Takapou Whāriki o Taranaki (The Sacred Woven Mat of Taranaki) out onto level 2 and around the natural history and geology galleries, down the stairs on to the landing and beyond into Pukekura Park botanic garden. The photography is by Chris Hill, except where stated.
The electromagnetic sensory world of sharks by Mike Paulin, a Dunedin based Zoologist was projected onto a ‘sail’ that is part of the museum fixtures
The ‘sail’ onto which Paulins computer model was projected.
2. The Electromagnetic Sensory World of Sharks 2011
Mike Paulin
Video, computational database and model
Running time: 4 minutes 30 seconds
Josh Wodak’s visual metaphors for rising sea levels and their impact on islanders were displayed in the same section as stories of journeying across the Pacific and places of settlement
3. When I was a Buoyant 2012
Josh Wodak
Inkjet print on archival cotton rag
65 x 130cm for each diptych
Sonja van Kerkhoff and Sen McGlinn created a spiral structure enclosing the five monitor work Kāinga a roto, Kāinga a waho (Home Within, Home on the Outside)
4. Kāinga a roto, Kāinga a waho (Home Within, Home on the Outside) – Puke Ariki 2013
Sen McGlinn (Ngāti Pākehā, Ireland, England) and Sonja van Kerkhoff (Ngāti Pākehā, Holland, Scotland, Ireland)
Five videos
Running times: Various lengths
Janet Laurence worked with extinct and threatened bird species from the Puke Ariki Collections, including the Huia and a number of ‘skins’ of Kingfishers.
5. Love and Extinction 2013
Janet Laurence
Museum collection specimens, laboratory glassware, mesh, tubing, various fluids and solids
40cm x 122cm x 82cm
As Anne Pincus has pointed out, while Medusae are so intricate, jellyfish are in places reaching overpopulation proportions due to climate change.
6. Medusae (1 – 5) 2010 – 2012
Anne Pincus
Crocheted silver wire
Each approx. 15 x 15 x 50cm, hanging size variable
Lior (1 & 2) 2010 – 2012
Anne Pincus
Crocheted nylon fishing line
16 x 16 x 44cm, 25 x 25 x 45cm, hanging size variable
Cyanobacteria photosynthesise in the light of artist-scientist Hideo Iwasaki’s microscope video projected from underneath. Photo by Ian Clothier.
7. Photoautotropica 2011-2013
Hideo Iwasaki
Cyanobacteria, gels, glass, movie of motile cyanobacteria taken under the microscope
160cm x 40cm x, 80cm
Metamorphorest IV 2010
Hideo Iwasaki
Paper cutout
680 x 900
Galactic wind by Nina Czegledy and collaborators visualised and sonified galactic wind data, which controlled water squirted on to cymbals, making audio.
8. Galactic Wind 2013
Nina Czegledy, John Fass, Laszlo Kiss, Ramon Guardans, Martin Brown
Galactic wind data set, electronics, brass, cymbals, mechanical engineering and fluid
110cm x 75cm x 55cm
At the edge of water contrasted indigenous and industrialised notions of the environment and water.
9. At the Edge of Water 2012
Concept by Rulan Tangen with filmmakers Marion Wasserman/Elemental Designs and Louis Leray, for Dancing Earth Creations
Video
Running time: 15 minutes
Jo Tito captures both Maori and scientific notions of flow and the patterns of nature.
10. Wai 2012
Jo Tito (Iwi: Taranaki, Tūhourangi-Ngāti-Wāhiao, Ngāti Pikiao)
Video
Running time: 4 minute loop
Tracey Benson’s images are multiple views of Taranaki the maunga or mountain, aligning with the many meanings people ascribe to it.
11. Fauxonomy – Message to the Mountain 2013
Tracey M Benson
Mixed media
Trudy Lane took the audience through A Walk Through Deep Time – covering 4.57 billion years of Earth history.
12. A Walk Through Deep Time 2013
Trudy Lane and Halsey Burgund
iPhone app, network connectivity, audio, metal, vinyl
Layers of audio by Nigel Helyer referenced multiple notions of underworld and filled one end of the Fernery in Pukekura Park botanic garden.
13. Songs from the Underworld 2013
Nigel Helyer
Environmental sound installation, internet, data sensors and audio
Dimensions variable [Pukekura Park installation]
This data sensor by Pierre Proske measured soil moisture content, which was relayed to a set of output devices mounted on poles. Audio based on the data was output at dusk. Photo by Ian Clothier.
14. Brickets 2012
Pierre Proske
Electronics, RF transceivers, Audio, LEDs, solar panels
Multiple units 150mm x 90mm x 50mm [Pukekura Park installation]
Darko Fritz’s Reload-refresh-sync symbol in the Bowl of Brooklands in Pukekura Park makes a statement: time to refresh our relationship to the environment. Photo by Darko Fritz.
15. reload_refresh_sync 2013
Darko Fritz
Turf and computer iconography
10000mm diameter [Pukekura Park installation]