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in christchurch odd patterns of thought and jokes and turns of speech which i ve passed on to our children without even thinking about it the experience of any migrant is that the life of the culture endures beyond the lives of the people and is not confined to the specificity of a place it changes it adapts it is passed on it goes with you wherever you are posted by cheryl bernstein at 9 42 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earthquakes photography wednesday june 20 2012 waters above waters below on sunday we visited waters above waters below an installation by artists hannah and aaron beehre at the christchurch art gallery s temporary premises in madras street the gallery is closed like half the city for earthquake repairs it will reopen sometime in 2013 to find the art you skirt the edge of the shrinking central city red zone and park next to hurricane fencing surrounding a wasteland there are few landmarks to give you your bearings the location is familiar but the place is not a small sandwich board indicates a doorway and then you climb an old wooden flight of stairs to the top floor and pass through a hallway into a large darkened room a camera obscura in which the world outside is projected on the far wall the projection takes place in real time what you see in the gallery is what s happening outside a camera is connected to a projector by means of an infinity cable the city is inverted the camera is stationary the clouds move across the sky backwards upside down when there s a nor wester aeroplanes pass over the screen flying from right to left sometimes there s a helicopter or a seagull as night falls the camera lens opens slightly to draw in the available light and the picture expands to include a second street lamp the room is on the upper floor of the old bain s warehouse now occupied by ng gallery there is a fashion store and a jewellers on the floor below but it s quiet upstairs the windows have been blocked out with a white wall on which the outside view is inverted and projected the floorboards hold the impressions of the heavy objects which have been stored there at various times in the building s life their dull sheen reflects the light of the projected city its raw and haphazard contours dissolved into soft washes of colour blue ochre fiery orange the effect is painterly abstracted a sutton skyscape as re imagined by rothko there is a feeling of quiet and calm in the room of duration somehow in a city whose material past has been largely destroyed the bain s building is one of the few left in this part of town as we sit quietly on low benches at the back of the room mesmerised by the slowly changing panorama of the sky a vast amniotic ocean i imagine watching the city fall all over again waters above waters below is the title of the work but there is no water in the projected image which takes its title from a passage from genesis and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters and god made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament and it was so and god called the firmament heaven 4 jpg 4 jpg outside the same clouds are travelling in the opposite direction and the edwardian facade of the mckenzie and willis building held up by massive steel props looks like an ancient ruin 4 jpg life in christchurch post earthquake is characterised by a great and growing strangeness as the unimaginable the unthinkable becomes a daily occurrence events that belong in the pages of fiction happen here everyday rivers have changed their course the ground has opened to swallow cars on suburban streets something approaching three quarters of the buildings in the central city are being demolished people on the hard hit east side live in tents and caravans in sub zero conditions the beehres waters above waters below represents an attempt to come to terms with that daily strangeness to make art which deals with the everyday alienation of life in the city posted by cheryl bernstein at 3 23 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earthquakes public art public galleries thursday may 10 2012 mental health services mental health services in brisbane cheap posted by cheryl bernstein at 2 39 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 11 2012 william mcaloon 1969 2012 i am deeply deeply saddened to learn of the death of william mcaloon one of new zealand s foremost curators and art historians an old friend as a writer you have an imaginary close reader a person whom as you write you envisage reading your writing and commenting favourably or unfavourably on your style and the development of your ideas and your means of expression william was that person for me he was without any possible doubt the best new zealand art writer of our generation he set a standard which i strain to meet and of which i am always conscious we were at university together in christchurch in the 1980s and there was a time when he would read what i d written and critique it for me and even now as i write i still imagine his snort and his slow grin and the raise of a sardonic eyebrow as he d put the pages down at the end of the introduction to his biggest book art at te papa 2009 he wrote that the national art collection is a treasure which enriches our present and remains a challenge for the future with william s untimely death the new zealand art world has lost one of its most well informed and quick witted critics and historians the work that he has left behind enriches our cultural history and its intellectual standard remains a challenge for our future posted by cheryl bernstein at 11 01 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 8 2012 the people s plinth inspired by local art teacher henry sunderland s instructions in the press to celebrate easter this year we made bunnies out of plastic milk bottles henry sunderland is the originator of the idea of putting flowers in road cones as a commemoration of the first anniversary of the fatal 22 february christchurch earthquake the big guy screwed the rabbits on to some short lengths of wood then we went out and put them on road cones nearby our house the city is still littered with road cones indicating the extent of the damage to roads and pavements and underground services more than a year after the earthquake i think there s something really interesting going on here which is expanding the definition of public art the road cones symbol of damage and endless dust and mud and dreariness in our post quake daily lives have been adopted by locals as the people s plinth a place for showing and enjoying the creative expressions of local people i look forward to the next participatory public art project we ll join in posted by cheryl bernstein at 10 35 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earthquakes public art wednesday february 22 2012 river of flowers all over the city today to commemorate the anniversary of the christchurch earthquake people have been placing flowers in the tens of thousands of road cones which cordon off broken areas of the footpath or which mark particularly bad potholes in the road it s a form of spontaneous public art for those unable or unwilling to attend the big public commemoration in hagley park earlier today there were a series of small localised commemorations across the city on the banks of the avon people brought flowers from their gardens and placed them in the river and watched them drift at 12 51pm today i went down to the stream at the end of our garden with a bunch of flowers and i sat on the bank for a while and then i threw them in posted by cheryl bernstein at 3 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earthquakes public art tomorrow will be the same but not as this is colin mccahon tomorrow will be the same but not as this is 1958 solpah and sand on board collection christchurch art gallery te puna o waiwhetu presented by a group of subscribers december 1962 if christchurch art gallery were open at 12 51pm today i would stand in front of this painting by colin mccahon and think about what we ve lost and what we carry forward with us posted by cheryl bernstein at 12 51 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art books colin mccahon earthquakes friday january 6 2012 love falls down and covers the people i d meant to blog this much earlier of course put it down to what in the local vernacular is called quake brain a state of mind in which things are misplaced forgotten fall off the back of the desk dry up falter and generally slip through your fingers quake brain i loathe this and other chummy cliched coinings around christchurch s natural disaster but it s an accurate description and i don t have other words for it is a bit like that strange fog you experience in the first days and weeks after a baby is born when shock and exhaustion and a new hypervigilance renders you temporarily a spectator in the world rather than a participant you are out of sorts with the world you have misplaced your agency you sit and wait and watch while around you the current of history keeps moving i imagine quake brain is a modern term for a very old thing what i missed in the fog and dust of the past few months is a desire to publicly acknowledge a series of beautiful collaborations arising from the inclusion of my daughter s story this is about earthquakes in the literature category for the annual mix and mash competition i was very much moved both by the inclusion of the text by organisers pip adam and fiona rigby and by the new works which were created as a result inspired in part by my daughter s experience of the february earthquake in christchurch here are some of the remixed works derived from this is about earthquakes with a short excerpt under each link hera bird s prose poem the mountain from which the title of this post is in turn drawn we want to believe that love will keep us safe but love will not keep us safe love has no central nervous system love looks like it s wearing a white hat the mountain is covered with love megan clayton s poem untitled this is about earthquakes and brooke phelan s delightful illustrations click through on the links above to read the new works and you can read more entries in the literature category of mix and mash here posted by cheryl bernstein at 10 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels earthquakes everyday life tuesday january 3 2012 small bang theory if daddy did a massive fart and you lit it with a match then boom there d be a new sun the small guy explains the formation of the universe how uncouth posted by cheryl bernstein at 10 53 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels everyday life sunday january 1 2012 the daisy boat on a walk to mona vale last year my three year old daughter made a sculpture it was a few days after the big earthquake in june and it was the first time we d been out for a long walk for a while afterwards you need to stay close to home immediately after a big earthquake when the windows have stopped rattling and the ground is still again you hold the children close and move around the house in a body your chest is tight and your breath is shallow and you stiffen when a truck rumbles past gradually the invisible ropes slacken and you can bear for a child to be in one room while you re in another or downstairs while you re upstairs or even out in the garden while you re in the house gradually you stop expecting that at any minute there will be another earthquake at mona vale in june we sat on a bench in the weak winter sun and watched army helicopters fly back and forth overhead my daughter picked daisies and piled them on a leaf we threw bread to the ducks purple crocuses were coming up under the oak trees the ground had spread by the river and muddy gouges seared the lawns a minibus disgorged a party of japanese tourists who stood on the cracked driveway blinking and got out their cameras when we left we floated the daisy boat in the river and watched the current take it may 2012 be less historic than 2011 posted by cheryl bernstein at 11 55 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels everyday life public art saturday december 31 2011 poutama that was 2011 my year in mobile phone pictures with acknowledgments to philip matthews whose idea this was pyne gould corporation building cambridge terrace christchurch 13 february 2011 oxford terrace baptist church 13 february 2011 rose st 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