SHAKY ISLES
Whakatipu Bivvy Project
Where art meets nature.
A community led outdoor visual arts project by artists Keminiko & Co.
We are collaborating with innovative and intrepid artists Keminiko & Co to bring an exciting outdoor community lead visual arts project to the Whakatipu.
Based on our collective interconnectedness to nature, Te Taiao, we will work together with communities to kōrero and consult, design, build and install three new public artworks full of wonder inside Queenstown’s green spaces.
- What about te whenua / the land matters most to you?
- What stories are connected to this place/space/environment?
- What does this place mean to you?
- What historical events or people have ongoing relevance here?
- What aspirations do you have for your community?
These questions and many more, inside a significant and meaningful consultation process with local communities, will inform the design of these artworks, placing the voices of the Whakatipu at the very heart of this exciting new public artwork.
Made from
found materials
100% sustainable!
The artworks will be made from found materials making them 100% sustainable! There will be printed and online content to aid everyone’s hut hunting adventure.
We plan to parter with Te Atamira to create a ‘bivvy hub’ to support the public to seek out and engage with these structures.
Other additional engagements are in process; educational resources, artwork fiction by local writers, an an exhibition of making the work filled with local faces and voices of the Whakatipu valley.
DATES
Nov 2026-Nov 2027: Community Consultation Dec 2027-March 2028: Build, Install, Event
The images here are of the project Urban Hut Club created by Keminiko & Co, curated by Bret McKenzie and programmed by the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2020, in Wellington. Whakatipu Bivvy Project is inspired by this original work.
