One Day Sculpture, New Zealand
Date uploaded: January 29, 2009
One Day Sculpture is a New Zealand-wide series of 20 newly commissioned artworks by national and international artists — each of which will occur during a discrete 24-hour period over the course of one year. Led by the Litmus Research Initiative at Massey University Wellington and Claire Doherty — UK-based curator, writer and Director of Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol — One Day Sculpture is produced in partnership with arts institutions and curators across New Zealand and will be realised in Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Christchurch and Dunedin from June 2008 to June 2009.
Concerned with issues of installation and temporality, permanence, monumentality and the public realm, One Day Sculpture sets out to examine how contemporary artists conceive of sculpture as a means to critically navigate and activate the public sphere. Presenting a range of national and international perspectives, the series will be characterised by a diversity of artistic approaches from publicly-sited installations of 24-hour duration to nomadic interventions across the city at moments during one day. By June 2009, 20 very different artistic responses to the one-day sculpture parameter will have emerged, forming a unique picture of temporary place-based sculptural practice.
The commissioned series will be accompanied by an international symposium in Wellington in March 2009 and a retrospective book publication co-edited by Claire Doherty and Dr. David Cross.
