A quick overview of what I’m up to at the moment,
plus a couple of highlights from the archives x
CURRENT MAHI
Bread & Butter Issues
In development 2023-mid 2024
- Delivered with support from the Albert Eden Local Board.
- Produced by Holly Mercer (independent installation artist)
Building on the growing collective kōrero around the price of food, Bread & Butter Issues is a participatory art installation looking at the sustainability of our ways of living through the lens of food.
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Made from entirely edible or biodegradable materials, the installation is a series of interactive and edible art works each unpacking an element of what it means to have access to nutritious, sustainable local kai.
We are currently in our first project phase, hui & knowledge gathering, and working towards both a series of interviews and a community hui in late 2024. This hui will begin a series of conversations with community members, artists and growers to get a better picture of what’s really happening in our food system – and test how best the artist can be of support.
The hui and interviews are intentionally placed at the start of the process to ensure that, prior to any creative development work beginning, the framing for the project is grounded in what’s real for our community and people working in this space. It’s also to understand the landscape better, so that the resulting artworks are able to support and awhi work that is already going on – rather than start anew.
PAST WORKS
The Feastery
Following a the disappearance of the restaurant’s infamous celebrity chef, the sous chef and his bumbling front of house team must race against the clock to deliver a three course meal without the restaurant punters noticing. Brimming with original songs and dishes cooked live on stage, this is theatre at it’s most chaotic – and delicious.
A 60 minute immersive cabaret-style theatre piece written and delivered for Toi Whakaari’s Festival of Work in Development 2017.
Death By Crisper Drawer
Purchased from the farmers market with good intention, but slowly rotting in the back of the fridge, Broc and his fellow vegetable hostages must convince their human overlords to take a chance and consume them or face death by crisper drawer.
A 25 minute solo show, presented for Solos 2015 in Wellington.
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