Gavin Hipkins
The Port
Artwork Detail
The Port combines images taken from the 18th century architectural astronomy instruments called Jantar Mantars in New Delhi and Jaipur. These structures are included alongside abstracted and naturalistic New Zealand landscape motifs, suburban architecture and street scenes from Auckland's current master-planned community Stonefields, built on a former quarry. The images are combined with an audio montage read from passages of H.G. Wells’ 1895 science fiction novella The Time Machine. In the gallery space the sound and image play unsynchronized, their different duration causing an ever-changing relationship between the two.
- Title
- The Port
- Artist/creator
- Production date
- 2014
- Medium
- single channel video, HD, colour, sound
- Dimensions
- 17min 24sec
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 2015
- Accession no
- 2015/14/2
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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