It is the last few days of What lies beneath at the House of Waiwera, 285 Parnell Road, Parnell, Auckland. Thursday 8th September will be the final day to view the iecberg. On Friday, myself and a couple of lucky people will be helping to pull the staples out and pack it back into the suitcase for storage.
I just thought I’d share some pictures from the opening night with the berg in all its glory!
Thanks to Nigel Moore at Zzili studio for doing the documentation.
Tonight What lies beneath opens at the House of Waiwera in Auckland but I still have some finishing touches to make…and a whole lot of tidying up to do.
This berg fits over a structural wall that is central to the gallery space. I think it will be surprising when the berg is eventually removed and the architectural structure is re-revealed.
Anyhow, here is the video of the time-lapse.
This is going to be quick as I am mid berg in Auckland at the moment. The camera is tethered to the tripod doing time-lapse documentation of the install so all I can offer you is a quick pic from photobooth on the laptop! [ie focus not the best but hopefully you will get the idea] One side is complete as you will see, but still lots of gaps and a whole lot of editing to do before the launch on Thursday evening at House of Waiwera.
Over the last week, I have been preparing and repairing the components from What lies beneath at the City Gallery. Putting endless amounts of spliced blue masking tape on the tabs, putting them back into their lovely piles and wrapping them in tissue. Amazingly, it seems the whole work will fit inside my robust plastic suitcase. How crazy is that? Especially considering that the assembled work was 12m x 4m x 2m. Thank goodness for flat pack! From tomorrow onward I will be installing a new configuration of What lies beneath at Waiwera House. It will be a site specific response to the space and the progress of the installation will be able to be viewed by the general public [eek!] This will make it both terrifying and exciting but I am definitely up for the challenge. Prints will be available for sale at Waiwera House when the show opens to the public from August 26 – September 8 2011. Please drop by if you are in Auckland. 285 Parnell Road, Parnell is the address.
Interestingly, as I am installing this new work, What lies beneath – the return at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford UK will be getting dismantled but there will still be two iceberg projects on the go including above, below at the Mahara Gallery until November.
this is only half of the berg!
Tomorrow – that is Saturday 13th August, I will be doing a kind of question and answer interview thing via Twitter with Katharine Allard [@katharineallard]
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o_gabbyo is my twitter id if you want to follow the conversation, or ask a question or two. For those of you in the UK, this will be taking part from 11am GMT and from 10pm for those in NZ and #papericebergs is the hashtag for the conversation.
Also, there are prints for sale at the North Wall – you better get them quick as there are just over 7 days to go before the show and the prints are all gone.
This link might help lead the way. Sorry but I am a newbie to all this twitter biz!
xg
Sorry for the infrequent posts and the lack of replies to people’s emails. Busy times continue on.
Yesterday with the lovely Vanessa Crowe, we installed a new iceberg project at Mahara Gallery in Waikanae.
The project is called: above, below. It opens on Saturday and will be up for 3 whole months. Here are some installation images. I will hopefully have some proper shots of the finished work after the weekend.
To explain, the above section is made from envelopes and the below section is made from offcuts from the What lies beneath projects.
What lies beneath-the return continues at the North Wall in Oxford for another week and a bit and just to keep it all interesting, I will be making some icebergs in Auckland from Friday 19th. More details soon
So I am still looking at images of icebergs and submerged ice as I make a few more icebergs.
One of which will be being installed at the Mahara Gallery in Waikanae next week. But for a change, I will be including the top or tip of the iceberg too.
I also found this information to be of interest of how to watch an iceberg…
So it seems, this project still has more to explore….so I recommend that you watch this space!
On Monday, myself and four others packed down What lies beneath at the City Gallery. It was sad, but also cathartic. Removing thousands of staples one at a time, like pulling out splinters. [see images below]
Fortunately, in the days before packing out, I took some video footage of the iceberg. It was lovely to have evidence of how it heaved and cracked with the airflow that occurred between the berg and skylight when the air temperature changed.
Here it is….
An edited version of the artist talk that I did a few weeks back at the City Gallery Wellington with NIWA scientist Craig Stevens is now available as a podcast.
Scroll down this link until you see the word icebergs!
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/20110728
Also, here is a link to some more pics of the UK icebergs at the North Wall in Oxford
http://www.quaintliving.com/2011/07/gabby-oconnor-what-lies-beneath-the-return/
This new review was published this morning on www.eyecontactsite.com
Have to thank Jodie Dalgleish for her lovely interpretation of What lies beneath.
Wow.
