Urgent moments art and social change : the Letting Space projects 2010-2020 Art and social change : the Letting Space projects 2010-2020 Amery, Mark 1969- editor. Clausner, Amber editor. Jerram, Sophie editor. text nz 2023 2023 monographic eng print 351 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm "After first occupying vacant spaces in post-stock-market-crash Auckland in the mid-1990s, public art curators Letting Space re-emerged in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Confronted by the thin net of social welfare, the waste of the capitalist system and the climate emergency, it brokered spaces for artists to think and act radically, outside gallery walls. This book chronicles the projects those artists drove. From a grocery store where everything was free to an ATM for depositing moods and a citizens' water-testing lab, they added to the civic dialogue at a time when public space and media were increasingly commodified and under surveillance. Written by leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, including Pip Adam and Chris Kraus, Urgent Moments demonstrates the vital role artists can play in the pressing discussions of our times"--Provided by publisher. Open Call / Chris Kraus -- The Time Travellers / Pip Adams -- Before -- 2010 -- Realty Pitch -- Popular Archaeology: Cassette, c.1967-94 / Dugal McKinnon -- Free Store / Kim Paton -- Beneficiary's Office / Tao Wells -- Taking Stock / Eve Armstrong -- 2011 -- Shopfront / Suburban Floral Association -- The Market Testament / Colin Hodson -- Pioneer City / Bronwyn Holloway-Smith -- 2012 -- Free of Charge / Julian Priest -- Productive Bodies / Mark Harvey -- The Public Fountain & D.A.N.C.E. FM 106.7 / Tim Barlow & D.A.N.C.E. Art Club -- Open Plan: An Art Party -- Urban Dream Brokerage 2012-18 -- 2013 -- Studio Channel Art Fair -- Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa 2013. 2014 -- Please Give Generously / Judy Darragh -- Te Ika-a-Akoranga / Bronwyn Holloway-Smith -- 2015 -- Moodbank Wynyard / Vanessa Crowe -- Projected Fields / Siv B. Fjærestad -- Transitional Economic Zone of Aotearoa 2015 -- 2016 -- 2017 -- Groundwater: Common Ground Arts Festival -- Unsettled / Rana Haddad & Pascal Hachem -- Our Future Masterton -- Ahutahi ki mua -- After -- Human First, Artist Second / Mark Amery & Sophie Jerram -- Shifting the Urgency / Zara Stanhope -- Project Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Image Credits -- About the Contributors -- About the Commissioned Artists. edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner, Sophie Jerram. u-nz--- Letting Space (Organisation : N.Z.) Art New Zealand 21st century Political art New Zealand Public art spaces New Zealand Art Nouvelle-Zélande 21e siècle Art et architecture Art Art and architecture New Zealand 2000-2099 fast N7408 .U744 2023 709.93 9781991016461 1991016468 2023553786 pda,print NZ1 231020 20250318214341.0 in00005466279 eng