atelierworkshop: art&fact

production of pascal daudon and rangi kipa during the art&fact taranaki 05 residency

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ART & FACT

atelierworkshop created Art & Fact, a project developing a mode of professional and critical practice that persistently questions, through analysis and experimentation, New Zealand culture from different perspectives. Each Art&Fact session will explore a specific setting - landscape or urban - and investigate a series of potential ways of simultaneously knowing and destabilising our knowledge of that site through creative and critical practices.

We aim to bring to analyses and practice the result from this focus on New Zealand to bear upon other geographies, cultures, through intellectual and artistic exchange, international residencies and critical relationships with institutions around the world. We thus anticipate developing a praxis of critical and operational work that remains open for as long as collaborations can be brought to bear upon problems of urban and landscaped cultural constructions and the formulation of their identity. The teams we construct for individual projects range in size and the diversity of expertise; the projects themselves determine the nature of the team that an object of study might sustain.

TARANAKI 05

For the Taranaki project, we brought together artists, writers, producers and a documentary cinematographer to understand the critical deformations that occur by observing and testing artistic practices in situ and by anchoring these firmly to the ideas and realities of a place. The session Art&Fact Taranaki 05 brought together French artist Pascal Daudon and Maori artist Rangi Kipa over a period of 3 months before the Taranaki Festival of the Arts 2005.

Working in different traditions - two dimensional compositions for Pascal and carving and moko for Rangi - both artists engage directly with evidence of the past in their respective territories, conducting a form of cultural archaeology performed through their art practice. Art&Fact as part of the Taranaki Festival of the Arts 05, proposed along with the exhibition of artworks of Pascal and Rangi, a short film by brothers Francis and Peter Salole exploring further the notion of cultural archaeology and the notion of place in following the process of creation of Daudon and Kipa during their residency in Taranaki. The following act is planned to be Art&Fact Aquitaine 06 and will bring Daudon and Kipa in South west of France over a period of 4 months.

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