Research Catalog
Groundwork
- Title
- Groundwork / artworks and texts, Bianca Hester ; editing and proofreading, Marie Shannon.
- Author
- Hester, Bianca
- Publication
- Melbourne : Perimeter Editions, [2021]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N7405.H373 A72 2021g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm +
- Summary
- Groundwork, a major new book by Sydney-based artist Bianca Hester, finds its footing in the volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand). An expanded sculptural project that grew out of a series of research residencies in 2015, Groundwork is both social and geological in scope. Focused on a series of sites across the city where human activity, geology and ecology have converged in fraught and revealing ways, the book maps connections between the landscapes of Te Kōpuke Mount St John and Te Tokaroa Meola Reef; Ihumātao and Takapuna; Waterview and Matukutūruru Wiri Mountain. Through collaborative and consultative processes with local people, this work encompasses walking, sculptural production, exhibition, archival research and writing between 2015 and 2020. Engaging with landscape as a nexus of geologic materialities, nonhuman durations, land expropriation, extractive activities and ecological transformations, the book proposes ways to apprehend the complex sedimentations of a city.
- Alternative Title
- Walk from Te Kopuke/Mt St John to Te Tokaroa/Meola Reef, approximately following the lava flow.
- Subject
- Hester, Bianca
- Site-specific art > New Zealand > Auckland
- Landscapes in art
- Art, Australian > 21st century
- Geology in art
- Ecology in art
- Movement, Psychology of
- Art néo-zélandais > 21e siècle
- Art australien > 21e siècle
- Art > 21e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
- Géologie dans l'art
- Psychomotricité
- Auckland (N.Z.) > In art
- Note
- Accompanying map: "A walk from Te Kopuke/Mt St John to Te Tokaroa/Meola Reef, approximately following the lava flow" (includes landscape shot of lava on reverse of sheet).
- Accompanying booklet: "A script for the walk, after the walk / by Abby Cunnane (written in 2016, a year after the walk)."
- "First edition of 500"--Back cover.
- "Perimeter Editions 069"--Back cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781922545053
- 1922545058
- LCCN
- 99993746098
- OCLC
- on1311415550
- 1311415550
- SCSB-14576525
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries