°TEMP Shelter

Art Emporium School Holiday Workshop

Media Release June 2016

Image: A Making Space with Artists Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen °TEMP presents a series of public art science experiences focusing on Air, Water, Food, Weather and Shelter that aim to change the way you think about climate science to foster habits for a healthy habitat. °TEMP invites you to contribute to building these installations through workshops during 2016, culminating in largescale outdoor installation based participatory lab in Autumn 2017.

°TEMPAir – Tu o Kapua ~ My Personal Cloud workshops were recently held at Te Uru Contemporary Gallery. Award winning artist collective F4 and NIWA air quality scientists worked with 230 students from local schools to learn about air quality and to make the cloud installation. Feedback by visitors “the cloud project was a great way to raise awareness of Climate Change”, “The clouds are amazing, can’t believe that they were made by children.”

Your next opportunity to participate is in the °TEMPShelter workshop at Corban Estate Arts Centre. Over 3 days Tue 19 - Thu 21 July, 10am – 2.30pm, Shed 2 will be transformed into a bustling hut city. Registration info@ceac.org.nz or phone 09 8384455.

This July, CEAC Arts Emporium partners with °TEMP, artists Xin Cheng and Chris Bethelsen who have collaborated with Civil Defence experts to bring you an exciting 3 day programme all about shelter. What child doesn’t love building huts and shelters from the things they find? Now’s their chance to create and build amazing, robust shelters from useful stuff sourced from local industry. The °TEMP Arts Emporium focuses on building capacity and resilience through learning where to source useful materials, experimenting with making, exchanging resources and sharing knowledge.

Normally for children aged 5 – 9 years, this holiday we’re inviting older siblings and parents/grandparents/whanau along too.

°TEMP, in partnership with CEAC, calls on our west Auckland community to donate goods and services to this project, we will approach industry to donate building and surplus materials that might be suitable for shelters and human habitat following a post disaster emergency situation.

About the °TEMP Shelter Artists

In early 2014 Xin Cheng and Chris Berthelsen encountered each other by chance through a mutual interest in tyres. Since then they have realised a number of activities across Auckland as well as internationally. Most recently they have been holding frugal making workshops around Tokyo as part of a 'research and doing' tour on the theme of 'shelter crisis'

Chris Berthelsen is an artist whose work explores environments for creative work, citizen-led urban design, and alternative education. He has run workshops for children and adults throughout New Zealand and Japan, including an eight-week self-building experiment at Mairangi Bay School in 2015 and the summer 'art notschool' programme at Mairangi Arts Centre in 2016. He has contributed chapters to the books Farming the City: Food as a Tool for Today’s Urbanisation (Trancity, Netherlands), and Enabling City (Vol. 2), a publication that highlights projects and people that enhance creative community resilience. He is currently translating a book by the Japanese artist and author Kyohei Sakaguchi, famous for his zero-yen mobile houses and in-depth research on the hand-made houses of homeless people in Tokyo. a-small-lab.com small-workshop.info

°TEMP would not have been possible with out the generous support from TTCF, Waitakere Ranges Local Board, Auckland Council Regional Arts and Cultural Development and Foundation North and MBIE Curious Minds.

For information to register your interest please contact info@ceac.org.nz or phone 09 8384455. Or visit our website on www.tempauckland.org.nz

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