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Making Dreams Realty –Celebrating Temporary Public Art

Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 5:06 pm | Letting Space

On Saturday afternoon November 3 at City Gallery Wellington three leading New Zealand creators of temporary public art come together to discuss recent projects that have made a major impact on the arts in New Zealand in the last three years: Wellington’s ... More >>

Artist taps steamy issue of Geothermal power in Taupo

Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 12:32 pm | Letting Space

As part of Taupo’s Erupt Festival, opening this week, artist Tim Barlow is erecting a temporary Public Fountain using geothermal power in Taupo’s CBD. It will also be centerpiece for a series of talks around the ownership and control of geothermal ... More >>

Mobile Radio Station to Visit Local Taupo Communities

Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 11:55 am | Letting Space

NEWS RELEASE 3 May 2012 Mobile Radio Station to Visit Local Taupo Communities A national public art programme sees an Auckland artists’ collective visit small communities with a mobile radio station and public address unit around Lake Taupo ... More >>

Tao Wells Responds to New Work

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 10:51 am | Letting Space

Tao Wells' project with public art programme Letting Space, The Beneficiary’s Office caused a great deal of discussion and controversy in 2010. Now Wells has the right of reply to a new Letting Space project that was inspired by it - Mark Harvey's ... More >>

Marilyn Waring, Susan Guthrie talk about productivity

Tuesday, 13 March 2012, 2:07 pm | Letting Space

EVENT: Being Productive A conversation with Marilyn Waring, Susan Guthrie and Mark Harvey Free entry. Wednesday March 14th, 1-2pm, Festival Club, Odlins Plaza, Wellington Waterfront Part of the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts sculpture series ... More >>

Threatened MFAT Staff to Receive a Helping Hand from Artists

Monday, 12 March 2012, 9:23 am | Letting Space

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade staff and other civil servants threatened by job losses are to receive a symbolic ‘helping hand’ by a performance art project next week in the streets of Wellington. More >>

The city runneth over - with redundancy

Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 12:26 pm | Letting Space

Redundant civil servants, artists and those simply between jobs are being invited by public art programme Letting Space to attend gatherings over the next two Wednesday evenings in Wellington to help create a work to be performed in the streets of Wellington ... More >>

Free public forum Friday on Wellington's future

Thursday, 28 July 2011, 2:15 pm | Letting Space

The Urban Dream Brokerage Ilott Concert Chamber, Wellington Town Hall 6pm on Friday 29 July Free entry More >>

Showroom for Mars property to open under Soho

Friday, 3 June 2011, 1:29 pm | Letting Space

Tired of life on this unstable planet? A world-first showroom on Taranaki St, Wellington New Zealand offers the opportunity for members of the public to consider being pioneers in the future colonisation of the Utopia Plains of Mars. More >>

Webcam turned on Wellington Office Building as Work of Art

Thursday, 14 April 2011, 2:44 pm | Letting Space

As an unconventional artwork it’s already turning heads, and now public art programme Letting Space have announced that a Wellington office building being treated as an art object can be viewed by webcam. More >>

Wellington Office Building Becomes a Work of Art

Thursday, 31 March 2011, 9:30 am | Letting Space

An entire office building on Wellington City’s The Terrace is to be turned into a work of art, public art programme Letting Space reveals today. More >>

Eve Armstrong makes the perfect Buy Nothing product

Friday, 26 November 2010, 9:39 am | Letting Space

Buy Nothing Day, a 20-year old day of international protest against consumerism, is this Saturday 27 November. And in time for this date and surrounding week of action, artist Eve Armstrong has installed Taking Stock: a sculpture comprised of plastic ... More >>

Empty promises on Featherston St

Thursday, 11 November 2010, 11:08 am | Letting Space

Using a mountain of empty plastic packaging, artist Eve Armstrong has created a sculptural work in a two-storeyed vacant shop in Wellington, creating a visual pause in the Christmas retail rush. More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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