Dunedin Dream Brokerage is activating the digital-sphere right into your pocket, connecting you to local social media creatives featuring some of Dunedin’s finest spots.
Too cold to go out but love seeing Dunedin through our hive of creative minds? Join us at #Locations_of_Interest
Content Creatives: This is a social media takeover project, profiles up to 6 artists and designers over the next 6 weeks, showcasing your creative work amongst Dunedin settings. Get in touch!
Keep this up: Daily for 5 days and upload to our social media platform either as stories, reels or regular posts
So What: we will reward you with a koha of $500.
Always wanted to see your work in public places? Using AR for original work? Love to draw? Got a story to tell in 5 short episodes? We want you to digitally embed your creative work into your favourite Dunedin locations, and share them through our social media pages, and yours!
Dunedin Dream Brokerage activates under-utilised urban and retail spaces through brokering a lively programme of art project occupation. But these COVID times have temporarily shifted the paths we walk and the places we meet. To occupy this moment we want to match our creative community’s social signatures with their favourite Dunedin locations, so you can catch them wherever you are isolating. Get in touch with examples of your work and to find out more: dunedindreambrokerage@gmail.com or DM us.
LOCATIONS OF INTEREST: SUMMER 2025
Week 5
24 - 28 March 2025
Ōtepoti/Dunedin is known for its heritage buildings boasting an array of architecture spanning many eras which illustrates the city’s rich past.
Inspired by archivist David Murray’s blog “Built in Dunedin” Jess Covell has created a series of fibre art pieces that looks at 4 sites within Ōtepoti/Dunedin, connecting past and present; a well known research Library, archive and gallery that used to be a dairy factory, an iconic fashion store that used to be a cake shop, a bicycle repair store that once was a grinding, sifting, cleaning and mixer plant for treating coffee, spices and teas, and the drapery store responsible for bringing the first papercut patterns into Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Pieces will be placed outside the different sites, and left for the public to react and engage.
Will you notice it? Will you stop? Will you touch it? Will you walk on it?
Week 3
24 - 28 February 2025
Shifting Sands
Week 4
3 - 7 March 2025
Let’s Put the AR in SummAR!
Kari Morseth is a multidisciplinary artist, most recently creating place-based participatory art projects alongside collaborating on moving image works.
Shifting Sands
Coastal land reclamation has been practised for centuries worldwide.
Leading to loss of ecology and biodiversity, influencing tidal currents and increasing the vulnerability to flooding.
Shifting Sands invites you to consider what has been lost, what might have been and how we can move forward to protect our environment.
Katrina Iosia is a Niue multidisciplinary award-winning artist, digital innovator, and co-founder of Katal (@katal.co.nz). She explores materiality in sculpture, merging physical and digital spaces for XR storytelling experiences. Dedicated to digital literacy, she elevates perspectives in contemporary art and technology.
During her week-long residency, you can experience three exclusive playful AR (Augmented Reality) sculptures anywhere in Ōtepoti! Whether at St Clair Beach, the Botanic Gardens, or your favorite spot, and bring digital art to life.
Week 1
10 - 14 February 2025
Week 2
17 - 21 February 2025
Brendan Jon Philip
hashtag_nofilter
Valadune: Where Dunedin Meets Fantasy Worldbuilding
Created by Rising Chaos Studios, a team forged through the chaos of friendship and passion, we bring our creative ideas to a global stage through tabletop gaming, digital gaming, and local connection.
Valadune reimagines our world of Valanour within Dunedin Dream Brokerage’s Locations of Interest. Across five days, explore iconic Dunedin sites transformed into fantasy realms, meet legendary figures, and shape your adventure through interactive storytelling and Unreal Engine recreations.
Rising Chaos Studios is: Chaise Benson, Katene Philip, Dr Alysha Crossan and Jamie Heart.
Brendan Jon Philip is an artist, writer, and musician based in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
Drawing these distinct practices into a syncretic whole, he has exhibited, published and performed throughout New Zealand.
Rather than using this social media residency as a platform for showcasing art created outside the medium or as a lens on an established practice, hashtag_nofilter directly engages with a fundamental aspect of the Instagram app—roving photography.
I am particularly interested in photography as an expression of visual sensibility—a fleeting crystallization of perception that frames and responds to an aesthetic moment. By exploring the surroundings of Ōtepoti through a phone camera, I seek to capture strong abstract compositions through close observation of the subtleties of light, color, shape, line, and texture.
This project will be an attempt to work with purely aesthetic forms within the inherently ideological landscape of social media.
LOCATIONS OF INTEREST: SUMMER 2024
Stacey Kokaua and Hamish Kokaua are siblings who have Ngāti Arerā ō Rarotonga, Ngāti Pāmati and Pākehā heritage. They live with their kōpū tangata in different locations along the Otago Peninsula. Stacey is a writer who has published essays and short fiction with Landfall, Pantograph Punch and Turbine Kapohau. Hamish is a coder and produces music under Scapegoat Mercy. This is their second collaborative project.
Left: Stacey Kokaua
Right: Hamish Kokaua
Jess Covell is the driving force behind @spectacledunedin with a passion for facilitating and organising temporary happenings that celebrate arts and culture within Ōtepoti. As an installation artist, her pieces communicate whimsy and interactivity, creating immersive environments through escapist elements. Her recent projects have been focused on working with fibre to create interactive sculptural pieces that sit in a realm where art, craft and functionality collide. This process-based practice is an exploration of colour, texture and pattern.
Sam Caldwell of Pixel Aotearoa is an illustrator and animator dedicated to celebrating the vibrant culture, iconic landmarks, and beloved figures of New Zealand through the nostalgic art of pixel art.
Through their week-long Dunedin Dream Brokerage residency, Pixel Aotearoa invites you to explore some of Dunedin's quintessential snack stops in their series: Dairies of Dunedin.
Kia ora! I’m Libbi, a self-taught digital artist working out of Port Chalmers, with a side hustle teaching art to kids.
The views around Kōpūtai are my happy place. Making art is my happy place. In one 10 minute walk around Back Beach, you can feel like you are away from it all.
This is what I want to share with you in this residency. My love of where I stand, those who stood before me, and the ridiculous amount of fun that can be had making digital art.
LOCATIONS OF INTEREST 2.0
Image credit: Frazer Charlton
E-Kare is both an experimental techno band and art duo. Gerrit Jos van Beek and Piupiu Maya Turei combined forces in 2016 and have been bringing their unique art and music experiences to audiences ever since.
E-Kare take you on a disjointed audio-visual tour of five of their most nostalgic places in Ōtepoti. Thinking through layers of occupation, they will create soundscapes using field recordings and a plethora of chiptune related instruments and samples. Alongside these digital artworks, will be a short 3 part interview series with a few of our favourites in the Ōtepoti music scene xx
Image credit: Christopher Schmelz
Spencer Hall is a cartoonist and animator from Dunedin. As a champion for New Zealand underground music, he has been active in postering for local bands and promoting them on radio.
For this installment of Locations of Interest, Spencer casts his eye across some of the important past epicentres of Dunedin's underground creative scenes as a series of site specific comics with an augmented reality component to each one.
Kia ora! We are Atawhai Interactive, a tiny indie game development team based in South Dunedin.
We are currently working on Toroa, a relaxing adventure game that lets you soar, swoop and glide on the winds of Tāwhirimātea as Toroa (Northern Royal Albatross.) This week we will be sharing some locations featured in our game as well as the taoka species that call these places home and sharing a bit about what we do for our day to day mahi to hopefully inspire some of you to make your own games :) Mauri ora!
Atawhai Interactive members are: Lisa Blakie, Connor Bridson, Mickey Treadwell, Max Howard-Martens, Heramaahina Eketone and Byron Hikaka Webb.
#atawhaiinteractive
LOCATIONS OF INTEREST
Week Five
15 - 21 August 2022
Jess Covell and Chris Miller (Bugs)
The pair have teamed up to create a series of video works that incorporate local environments manipulated and disrupted in reaction to music by the Entire Alphabet; continuous tone-scatter and harmonic deformation by the bass networks seamlessly with hypnotic and shamanic drum techniques. The final result being a full length music video.
Jess is the driving force behind spectacle dunedin with a passion for facilitating and organising temporary happenings that celebrate arts and culture within Ōtepoti. As an installation artist, her pieces communicate whimsy and interactivity, creating immersive environments with escapist elements.
Chris Miller (Bugs), Music Director for Spectacle Dunedin, is a multi-instrumentalist with an obsession for mixed-up rhythms and odd time signatures. He currently performs/records with The Entire Alphabet, Ha The Unclear, Coin Laundry, The Something Quartet, and Alizarin Lizard.
Week Six
29 August - 1 September 2022
Robyn Maree Pickens
@handwritten_signs typically posts *found* signs that have been written in urgency (back in five minutes), in protest (stop bombing Ukraine), or to instruct (slow down for ducks). For the Dunedin Dream Brokerage's Locations of Interest project however, @handwritten_signs will *create* a sign for a specific location. In direct response to each of the five locations, the signs will experiment with styles of language that tautoko the subject or query its colonial origins and socioecological present-futures.
Robyn (@handwritten_signs) is a queer, tangata Tiriti art writer and poet who lives in Ōtepoti. Her work centres on relationships between people and te taiao (nature) and she is passionate about interactions that are oriented towards repair and healing.
Week Three
18 - 24 July 2022
ArtDesignFilm is a multimedia artist with a passion for light, colour, and texture.
His liquid light art explores a range of tools and techniques that come from a shared knowledge from a community that has roots in 60s psychedelia and beyond.
Recently he has performed in music videos, short films, documentaries, live shows and more.
For Dunedin Dream Brokerage's Locations of Interest, he will be exploring ways to embed his art directly into local environments and monuments by combining analog light show tricks with digital tools such as photogrammetry.
Week Four
1 -7 August 2022
Bestieb00
Bestie is an explorer/multimedia artist.
"My goal within this residency is to help people look at and appreciate their surroundings in a different way. Paying more attention to graffiti and street art has been very good for my personal mental health, not only does it connect you with local voices that feel unheard but it encourages you to explore places you've never been. Stay tuned for profiles of specific locations and how they have been altered by human interaction xoxo your Bestie"
Week One
15 - 21 June 2022
I am a Dunedin-based multidisciplinary designer with a background in fashion, graphic and AR design. With everything I produce I make use of 4 main design principles: technology, innovation, illusion and storytelling. I strive to implement these principles across multiple disciplines to create immersive experiences, content and environments both tangible and intangible.
I am fusing generations of design by placing my digital augmented reality artworks in Dunedin locations designed by my grandfather, Dunedin City architect Bill Hesson.
Week Two
4 - 11 July 2022
Spicypaintjob is a painter, multimedia, and digital artist based in Dunedin, NZ
The inspiration of her art comes from the struggle with ego and identity in the modern hierarchical society. She personifies chaotic and shameful feelings with literal and figurative demons.
Her characters are dainty, pastel and fairy-like to engage her viewers to act out her philosophy as to love and accept the demons we'd rather hide from ourselves.
For the Locations of Interest project, her theme involves the common and trivial locations of Dunedin.
Locations where definitive and vivid memories are made, and where the emotions we experience are anything but trivial.