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Container or music series
Cargo
Wellington 2012
PopUp Group
Containers speak of import, transport, trading, smuggling and trafficking. They are vehicles for physical commodities, but they are also ‘cultural containers’: transporting human beings, human will and ideas. In Cargo this object is taken from its familiar context, and made devoid of content, point of origin or purpose. Afloat in the liminal space of the harbor, the container is neither fully exported nor imported, having departed but never arriving. Suspended from its journey and floating off-shore, the container becomes an isolated and elevated performer in Wellington Harbor, an environment in a constant state of flux.
Polish born Kasia Pol trained in the Prague Theatre Academy with a Masters in Scenography. In 2003 she worked on the Prague Quadrennial Heart of PQ and moved to NZ to teach Performance Design at Massey University. Since then she has worked across disciplines like film, performance, installation, theatre, and experimental music with NZ’s leading artists including Lemi Ponifasio’s Mau, Helen Todd, Dorita Hannah, Anna Marbrook and Taki Rua. She is currently working on the feature film The Hobbit.
Mathew Hunkin is an illustrator and visual artist working in print and physical media. His commercial output as an image maker is balanced with contributions to arts festivals,publications and collaborationss. He is interested in the use of inclusive and public mediums to prompt discussion on notions of identity in NZ. He has worked for a range of national and international clients and in 2010 was awarded a Masters in Design from Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. He is currently working as a designer on the feature film The Hobbit.
Acknowledgements
Dorita Hannah, David Cross, Ian Burgess, Matt Fabish, George Imlach, Sol Fergus and Wellington Harbourmaster Mike Pryce.
Supported by
The Kakano Fund Wellington Provedoring Wellington Regional Council NZ Diving and Salvage Underwater Solutions
