A 110-metre-long x 13-metre-high wall made up of 8,500 individually programmable LED lights.

The Lightship Award funded the presentation of this open-air work at The Ports of Auckland, curated by Bridget Riggir-Cuddy.

Lightship Award Press Release

Excerpt:

“Assembling languages that are human, nonhuman, those in everyday use and those less in currency, Onepanea works through a linguistic strata of The Lightship’s place.

We come to know and relate to a place through its name, shared understandings of its purpose and histories, and through personal and bodily experience of it. Slowly absorbing these differing modes of information we become attuned; sensorily and symbolically orientated to our regular locations.

Both minute and macro in scale, places are made through a nexus of cultural and environmental forces. Continually evident in our urban environments is the placemaking of engineering and design, forces that have shaped the urban centres of Aotearoa New Zealand since the beginning of colonial interest here.”