communiqué 09

Tuesday 12 May Two Recent Collaborations
Fiona Jack
Artist / Lecturer, Elam School of Fine Arts
National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries
The University of Auckland

Fiona Jack works across many media to investigate the conceptual, geographical and political definitions of shared space – a space that includes linguistic, physical, social and historical contexts. By calling attention to things as diverse as a list of the nationalities excluded from a dictionary, to the barriers constructed along borders around the world since 9/11 in the name of ‘National Security’, Jack questions the terms and structures that shape our lives.

In this lecture Fiona will discuss two recent collaborations with Ngati Whatua o Orakei. Kohimaramara is a billboard project, commissioned by Artspace Auckland, about an island that used to exist where the Tamaki Yacht Club now stand. Palisade is a re–construction of a palisade fence that was built by volunteers around the original papakainga of Ngati Whatua o Orakei in Okahu Bay.

Fiona Jack graduated with an MFA from CalArts in Los Angeles in 2005 and has since exhibited in London, Chile, Australia, USA and New Zealand. She is a Lecturer at The University of Auckland and lives in New Zealand.

communiqué 09 a lunchtime seminar series at the School of Architecture and Planning National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries The University of Auckland

All talks take place at 12.00 – 1.00pm
Venue: Design Theatre
School of Architecture and Planning
The University of Auckland
Room 348, Building 423, 26 Symonds Street, Auckland