Hi again,
I seemed to have skipped yesterday but I have an excuse. The plane couldn’t fly from Christchurch to Wellington because they said that lightning struck the airport and the runway lights went out… from what I hear this is actually a likely story and that it is always hard to fly into Wellington. Anyway, it was too late by the time we arrived to do anything but go to sleep.
Day 3
This day we visited the Botanical gardens and then the National Gallery where there were dioramas of the native people and animals.
Then we drove from Christchurch to Oxford to visit Areta Wilkinson who recently got a Ph.D. studying Māori culture and she showed me some photos that she and her husband worked on using jewelry or bones or stones or shells that had the sacred ancestors spirits in them. They were quite haunting.
She is also doing her own jewelry work using vertebrae.
And the hei tiki- the traditional NZ native figure denoting the ancestors.
After our visit with Areta we took the flight I referred to earlier and got to Wellington only to wake up early enough on
Day 4
To begin to attend the conference at the Dowse. It is in conjunction with the exhibition The Language of Things. And as conferences go... you would have to be there to really enjoy it but there were some very interesting talks especially the one by Kevin Murray called Tabu to Blockchain: The renewed role of currency in contemporary jewellery. Kevin was able to pack a huge amount into the talk about value.
Now I will just show you some images from the exhibition which I think is quite wonderful- very smart and commenting on the current value of jewelry as seen by the artists.
Video of Films from the 30s to the present day by Beatrice Brovia and Nicloas Cheng.
Akiko Kurihara 1000G necklace
Tobias Alm, Louise Bourgeois, Pauline Bern, Wu Mian
Hermann Jünger, Daniel Kruger, Kobi Bosshard, Georg Beer, Lynn Kelly, Alan Preston, Neke Moa, Chris Charteris
Dorothea Pruhl, Yuri Kawanabe, Lucy Sarneel
Peter Kelly, Matthew McIntyre Wilson, Joyce Scott, Noama Bergman, Sana Khalil.
And then to top of the night Damian and I also attended a Lisa Walker opening at the Te Papa museum called I want to go to my bedroom but I can’t be bothered.
Here is the ultimate statement that anything can go on a string…
Ghost appearing between Damian and Rosanne Bartley...
Plus a show called Pacific Sisters which was a sort of native pacific island activist fashion moment from the 1990s which was outrageous and kind of fascinating. It was gender fluid and performance based as well.
And as they used to say in the cartoons… That’s all Folks.
Hugs,
Susan
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