Urgent Moments

Art and Social change: The Letting Space projects 2010-2020

MARK AMERY, AMBER CLAUSNER, SOPHIE JERRAM , ANNA BROWN

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Massey University Press
12 October 2023

Performance art; Political activism

After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist system and the climate emergency, it brokered spaces for artists to think and act radically, outside gallery walls. This book chronicles the projects those artists drove. From a grocery store where everything was free to an ATM for depositing moods and a citizens' water-testing lab, they added to the civic dialogue at a time when public space and media were increasingly commodified and under surveillance. Written by leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, including Pip Adam and Chris Kraus, Urgent Moments demonstrates the vital role artists can play in the pressing discussions of our times.

Designed by: ANNA BROWN
Introduction by: CHRIS KRAUS
Edited by: MARK AMERY, AMBER CLAUSNER, SOPHIE JERRAM
Imprint: Massey University Press
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 200mm, Spine: 26mm
ISBN: 9781991016461
ISBN 10: 1991016468
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 12 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

MARK AMERY is a writer, producer, curator and facilitator working across the public arts and media, with a focus on new forms of participation. Co-founder of Letting Space, Paekakariki.nz and Paekakariki 88.2FM, Amery works at Radio New Zealand and as a contributing arts editor for the Dominion-Post. He is a member of the Wellington City Council Public Art Panel and recently completed a public art project with Wellington social housing residents. AMBER CLAUSNER is a British artist, writer and events co-ordinator who lives in Te Whanganui-a-tara Wellington, Aotearoa, where she is a facilitator at an artist-run space and a member of Shared Lines Collaborative. Her art practice investigates human connection to the non-human world. SOPHIE JERRAM works with artists and communities between university, government and community roles. Her research focuses on how shared space and time are important actors in community landscapes.