Single channel digital video with original soundtrack, 9 min 08 sec, produced for the 2025 Masons Screen Commission.
Commissioned by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT Artists Moving Image.
Masons Screen is a 24-hour public screen for artists’ video. Supported by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT, Masons Screen is located off The Terrace and presents a new artwork each month.
Works are programmed from the CIRCUIT collection. In addition, four new works are commissioned each year; three from an open call and a new response to Matariki.
Response text by Rosa Cachemaille:
Excerpt:
“This dense orb follows the children like a futuristic companion; liquid, playful, loyal. The water acts as an intermediary between us as viewers and the intimacy of watching, of following someone at play. Are we seeing these actions as they happen, or returning to the artist’s memories, seen through this wet prism of sentient water? Floating, following, and reacting with ripples, this water is both animate and lively. In this way, we are made aware of the presence of the non-human agents that are always at play in any environment: water, trees, stones, particles in the air, spores, dirt. We might ask, what are they observing? What is our relationship to them? Are our experiences and memories shared?.”