Challenge
To present carbon footprint facts with a focus on waste, water and coal.
Pilot
Suite Waters Serenade, September 2016, on a Spring Tide, Henderson Estuary, Selwood Road, Henderson
Suite Sweet Waters is an installation art & performance work which essentially serenades (through musical performance) the Waitemata Harbour from a site beside the estuary located dismally next to a dump site in West Auckland connected to Corban Estate Art Centre. A co-curated performance of a medley of sweet music befitting lovers and waters which seeks to highlight the associations between waste, plastic pollution and waterways / oceans and functions to connect with issues of climate change and rising sea levels.
Team
Dr Anthony Fowler (Associate Professor Environmental Studies, University of Auckland) focused his research on future climate change and its potential impacts on hydrology and water resources during the late 1980s through to the mid- 1990s. His emphasis then shifted to palaeoclimatology, associated with several major FRST-funded research projects. Fowler is now currently merging these two field into new research endeavours that use our understanding of past climate to test climate models used to project future climate change and to improve scenarios of future climate (particularly in the context of hydrology and water resources).
Brydee Rood holds a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland where she focussed on installation and sculptural practice. She has lived and worked in New Zealand, Germany, India, USA, Japan, The Netherlands and Mexico; these places and their inherent attitudes and patterns of consumption and materiality have greatly influenced her visual practice. Successive installation, performance and action based projects including For A World Without Waste and The Waste Whisperer Series navigated material lines of waste and value in a changing world environment. Her work has been selected for exhibition in environments ranging from urban canals and coastal national parks to desert villages; to the exterior of a working rubbish truck; to a solo project artist booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair; from one night installations in New York and into the underbellies and back street alleys of Wellington, Melbourne and Berlin
Image: Henderson River, 2016, Melissa Laing and Christina Houghton