Project 67 - Locations of Interest
Locations of Interest: Social Media Takeover
June - August 2022
Locations: Central Library, Moana Pool, Andersons Bay Crematorium, Croque-O-Dile Building, The Caledonian Gymnasium, Castle street, University of Otago Clock Tower, George Street, The Octagon, Signal Hill monument, Regan Gentry's 'Harbour mouth molars', Botanic Gardens Peter Pan statue, Larnach’s Tomb, Vogel/Jetty St, centre city Countdown, Askew alley, Arkwright traders, wharf Street, phone booth, Glamis Hospital, Harrington Point gun emplacement, Moray place alleyway, Ko te Tūhono, corner of Carroll and Hope Streets beneath the Bell Tea building, the Winter Garden, St Clair beach, Woof!.
Activating the digital-sphere right into your pocket, connecting you to local social media creatives featuring some of Dunedin’s finest spots.
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 matched our creative community’s social signatures with their favourite Dunedin locations, so audiences could catch them wherever they were isolating.
Week One
15 - 21 June
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
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.
Week Three
18 - 24 July
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
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 Five
15 - 21 August
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
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.