Cat Auburn is an artist from Aotearoa based in Argyll, Scotland. Cat’s art practice (sculpture, textile, film, event, and writing) focuses on how cultural heritage is constructed, reinforced, and strategically employed.
Christine Borland is an artist based in Argyll, Scotland who has pioneered cross-disciplinary collaborations at the intersection of ecologies of practice. Christine’s works are built on co-production with; communities of growers and makers, institutions of science and medicine, museums, collections and archives.
The over-arching project Approaching Home is collaboratively produced by the artists’ relationship as female artist-friends from different generations who are connected across the world by a shared settler colonial history. The exhibition at Aratoi Art Gallery & Museum (Masterton, 10 Aug – 27 Oct 2024) and associated residency with Te Whare Hēra (Wellington), are first steps in developing enduring partnerships with individuals and communities in both Aotearoa and Scotland.
In this talk, Roan Ching-Yueh will share two of his curatorial projects in Taiwan that tested bottom-up design possibilities in modern Asian cities. Through these, he asks: what conventional cultural, social, moral and religious structures are we losing through the emergence of a global singular system? In which directions might a modern Taiwan city evolve, and can architects build from an angle closer to reality?
In this workshop with Taiwanese architect, curator and writer Ching-Yueh Roan 阮慶岳, participants are invited to share three photos from their daily routes in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Drawing on the methodology of traditional Chinese acupuncture, these photos will serve as the starting point for a discussion on how to improve the quality of the city.