Auckland Community Art Gallery

et al-Maintenance of Solidarity
I went to the Auckland Community Art Gallery over the weekend and saw quite a few of the works as relating to our mapping brief for project 3. Et al's work was very interesting, there was a projection on the wall of images from Google earth showing places in the middle east. There is a desk and chairs set up in the room along with stacks of newspapers which i took some of but can't make any sense of, they just have printed lists of data and graphs that are irrelevant to me. There was a computer generated voice reading out co-ordinates or something playing loudly that could be heard throughout the whole gallery, and what sounded to me like middle eastern music playing. Didn't really understand what was going on, it looked like some sort of surveillance system and someone was meant to be at the desk watching it but it was left empty inviting you to sit down. I was looking at Dunedin on Google earth and you can add photos to the area where you took them, so i uploaded some photos i took at Bathun's gully to the exact spots i took them at.

Boyle Family-Earth Pieces
These works were enormous and i don't know how they stuck to the walls. Really elaborate re-creations of pieces of earth that they had found by throwing a dart at a map. View information about how they made their works here on their website.
There was also a map done in a similar style to this that had facts about countries and highlighted things that happened there such as torture, slavery and other breaches of human rights. A standout for me was the little story about a mother being forced to watch her 9year old son be tortured and killed. Pretty intense for a cartoon-like drawing.