PAH HOMESTEAD, Auckland, NZ

17 February – 3 April 2022
First Floor Galleries
Opening Night: Wednesday 16 February, 6 – 8 pm  (includes Dance Plant Collective)

HSDCTC co-lab collaboration unpacks at Pah Homestead the issues that were experienced during the current global pandemic.

HSDCTC colab are artist groups from NZ (HandShake Project), UK (Dialogue Collective) and AU (TempContempt). Their first collaboration was on the streets of Melbourne with big-size imagery on bollards with jewellery artworks provoked by the ideas of containment and restricted freedom.

While we continue in our attempts to nail jelly to the wall, it is obvious that COVID with its variants disrupts the traditional ways of presenting and experiencing art. The subsequent uncertainty presents us with the challenge and opportunity to explore what a jewellery ‘exhibition’ could look like. ‘Containment / Uncontained -working across borders’ is both an experience and an expression of lockdown intimacy with its bounded restraints.

Background In early 2017 jewellery artists from Aotearoa New Zealand’s HandShake Project and the UK-based group Dialogue Collective decided to collaborate, beginning with a mini online challenge: ‘same-time–different-place’. In March 2017 they exhibited their first collaboration called It Will All Come Out in The Wash, during Munich Jewellery Week.

Following that success, a group from Handshake collaborated with Dialogue Collective in 2018 with the exhibition ‘Te Ao Hurihuri’, held at the Crypt Gallery in London’s Kings Cross.

There were plans for Dialogue Collective to visit New Zealand in 2020 and exhibit the third and final collaboration with HandShake, but this did not eventuate due to COVID. The presentations at Pah Homestead showcase how the collaboration comes together.

see also:

https://handshakeproject.com/hsdc_at_radiant_pavilion/

https://handshakeproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/containment_uncontained-zine.pdf