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Posted On: March 18th 2021, 03:20 am
‘Resilience training’ comprises of four performance tasks you can choose to take up as you walk through the Tai Tapu Sculpture Garden. The performance is organised around the four banners - MERCY, HUMOUR, POVERTY, & COURAGE - which act as gathering posts for participants to off-load, take-up, or change performance tasks.
One task involves carrying small palmfuls of water in unsuitable vessels. Full instructions in the image (and in the first comment). These unfired clay vessels are made by pressing/stroking a small ball of clay into a cupped hand, and then baked in the harsh Canterbury summer sun. They return to pliable clay comically fast, but still hold water if they are held gently.
I’ve enjoyed seeing how the vessels are changing throughout the performance... sometimes moulding to the shape of others’ hands, sometimes completely falling to pieces, sometimes being smushed into a new shape by another fist. I’ve seen kids running around with wet clay up to their elbows, and used wet vessels being rebaked by the sun and wind with new cracks and imprints of grass and mulch solidifying in them as they dry.
Final performance this weekend, 20 & 21 March. Tai Tapu is open 11am - 3pm. 1/199 Cossars Road, RD2, Christchurch.
Images:
01-12. Clay vessels in various states of the performance.
One task involves carrying small palmfuls of water in unsuitable vessels. Full instructions in the image (and in the first comment). These unfired clay vessels are made by pressing/stroking a small ball of clay into a cupped hand, and then baked in the harsh Canterbury summer sun. They return to pliable clay comically fast, but still hold water if they are held gently.
I’ve enjoyed seeing how the vessels are changing throughout the performance... sometimes moulding to the shape of others’ hands, sometimes completely falling to pieces, sometimes being smushed into a new shape by another fist. I’ve seen kids running around with wet clay up to their elbows, and used wet vessels being rebaked by the sun and wind with new cracks and imprints of grass and mulch solidifying in them as they dry.
Final performance this weekend, 20 & 21 March. Tai Tapu is open 11am - 3pm. 1/199 Cossars Road, RD2, Christchurch.
Images:
01-12. Clay vessels in various states of the performance.
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6 years agoolivia.webb.art
INSTRUCTIONS FOR: TRANSPORTING WATER (COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY) 🌫 CHOOSE A CLAY VESSEL. THE CLAY IS UNFIRED AND MAY FAIL / CRACK WHEN IT GETS WET 🌫 DIP THE CLAY VESSEL INTO THE BUCKET OF WATER. USE THE VESSEL TO TRANSPORT THE WATER AROUND THE GARDEN 🌫 TRY NOT TO SPILL OR WASTE TOO MUCH WATER 🌫 YOU CAN CHOOSE TO CARRY THE WATER FOR THE ENTIRE LOOP, OR YOU CAN TIP THE WATER INTO ANY BUCKET AT ANY BANNER YOU FIND ALONG THE WAY 🌫 PLEASE LEAVE YOUR VESSEL ON THE GROUND NEAR THE BUCKET YOU EMPTY YOUR WATER INTO SO IT CAN BE USED BY OTHERS TO TRANSPORT MORE WATER.
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