weaving project taranaki

Vicki Smith || Artist || Aotearoa/New Zealand
Creating socially engaged opportunities that encourage broad audiences to participate in artwork, to highlight and speculate on solutions, for local global environmental issues

Recent works:
Ochre (Greymouth) 2019
Working with a geophysical chemist and the material collected from historic minesites to create a workshop using a given conceptual frame and media leads to an exhibition at The Left Bank Gallery.

Burn Time (Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin) 2019
A copper, brass and glass machine is central to an exploratorium for discovering the wonders of a Victorian meteorological instrument, the Campbell Stokes, thinking about the increase in sunshine hours and the impacts of Climate Change. @BurnTimeDunedin

Sounding ~ echolocation and disruption in our oceans (Dunedin, Kitchener - Canada) 2017-2020An auditory, visual, and walked experience of echolocation and the impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals. sounding.nz

Ocean Mesh ~ Our Social Seas (Nationwide, Nelson, Online) 2018
A creative collaboration using an audio-visual projection to encourage conversations about the ocean and the many ways we value marine ecosystems oceansmesh.net

Creative interventions for local government toward increased connection and protection of freshwater systems, urban and rural. healthystreams.nz 2017-2020

Also:
http;//upstage.org.nz - networked performance venue (originator & architect)
http//digitalsmith.nz
- other into

An online symposium that brings The Mind of Plants contributors together to share their reflections and various learnings with plants.

Stories, poetry and sound across a diversity of human languages and geographical landscapes. Come and join us!

USC Sunshine Coast
Apr 09 2021

Field Trip - Arts, Science, Tech and Environment Symposium

Sunshine Coast
Aug 08 2020