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Container or music series
The Freight
Wellington 2014
Kasia Pol + Russell Scoones
The installation consists of 8 containers placed on Wellington waterfront to create a monumental and dense environment, vibrating with and sound performance. The regimented and architectural character of this work intends to create a powerful ʻtemporary land markʼ or an ʻimposing monumental interventionʼ in the City and Wellington waterfront. Two intersecting, claustrophobic high paths arise inside the installation to create intense performance space where audience/ participants can experience various performative interventions. Only one of the containers would open. The breathing and daily changing body of The Freight would engage with the audience on different levels of active participation, observation, or ways of being present.
Kasia Pol designs regularly with Mau Dance Company and Taki Rua (Sydney Bridge Upside Down and Mark Twain and Me in Maoriland). She just finished working in soft furnishings for The Hobbit. Of Polish birth, she arrived in New Zealand after working on The Heart of Prague Quadrennial project with various NZ designers and artists.
Russell Scoones is a sonic artist and composer who regularly produces sound and music for Carol Brown Dances, Touch Compass, and other companies.
Both artists presented their own works in The Performance Arcade 2012.
Supported by Creative NZ
