Turbulence, 3rd Auckland Triennial

Auckland, New Zealand

9 March to 4 June 2007

The Auckland Triennial is New Zealand’s premier international contemporary art exhibition providing a window onto the world of contemporary art while creating a dialogue between local artists and their global counterparts.

Presented at venues throughout inner city Auckland, turbulence includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, film, performance and collaborations between international and New Zealand artists.

The 3rd Auckland Triennial addressed the condition of turbulence – the complex and unpredictable cultural and political environment in which we live. The artists in this exhibition engage with the emotional flux of their daily reality, responding to the ambient hopes and fears in our midst. They create aesthetic interventions – active, vital and alternative ways of looking at the world around us.

The artists in turbulence present their real and imagined expressions of sustenance and exile, ancestry and colonisation, trade and co-existence. Some artists are motivated by a sense of protest, some forge an aesthetics of survival, while others try to out-manoeuvre turbulence by representing alternative routes and pathways.