Upcoming Event
The Clothesline
Joe Furniss and Georgie Walker in ‘The Clothesline’
26.08
4:00pm
Join us with UC students Joe Furniss and Georgie Walker for an activation and workshop to accompany the 'Whakawhanaungatanga 2026' student exhibition
Interested in investigating alternative means of exhibition making, The Clothesline offers an adaptable collaborative space that centres processes of making and interdisciplinary dialogue. The Clothesline exists as a fluctuating and transitive environment, taking the form of a temporary artists’ studio, pedagogical and dialogical space, performative stage, and conventional gallery environment across various spaces, and often alongside guest collaborators and makers. This project intends to act as a witness and host to the transitory space of creative practices caught in-process.
For this activation, proposed to take place during the CoCA exhibition Whakawhanaungatanga, collaborators Georgie Walker and Joe Furniss will offer an initial performance that activates the materials, processes and intersecting conceptual concerns of their practices. For Joe, this will be through the act of throwing clay on a self-constructed pottery wheel, and for Georgie, the use of a self-constructed spinning wheel to produce yarn from local wool.
Following this performance, the space and tools will open up to gallery visitors who are interested in exploring the materials or processes we have demonstrated, transitioning the activation into a pedagogical and dialogical environment amongst ourselves and visitors.
In alignment with the larger exhibition theme, this activation importantly reflects the values of whakawhanaungatanga. Firstly, by offering a site for relationship building and reciprocity through the sharing of knowledge and collaboration. And secondly, by encouraging artistic relationships to go beyond the final outcome of the curated exhibition space, and acknowledge the significance of whakawhanaungatanga through the experiences of making and doing.
