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Wallace Arts Trust at the Pah Homestead - Kate van der Drift + Tess Wing - 02/11/2022
Kate van der Drift - Listening to a Wet Land
"Listening to a Wet Land" is a research project comprising an essay film and
a series of large-scale prints made from camera-less 'river exposures'.
Situated in the fragile waters of the Hauraki Plains, the visual research
is primarily field recordings. Both the digital moving image and
analogue photographs explore stories of loss, of damage incurred
in the politics of land use, as well as stories of hope and the potential
for repair through agency of the more-than-human.
- reproduced from the gallery notes
Tess Wing - Cutting the Cord
"Nature is violent and cruel; there are no fairy tale endings such as presented in
children's stories...My anthropomorphic human-animal-hybridshighlight the
similarities between the fledgling stage in birds and transitional adulthood in humans."
- reproduced from the gallery notes
