SIGHTSEEING
Hanna Scott and
Ann Shelton ed.
This publication introduces a distinctive and unconventional format for an exhibition.
Sightseeing is a box set of 90 concertina-folding postcards that unfolds into an innovative, touring photography exhibition. As fully fledged exhibition it has travelled to Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, Devon UK, and St Pauls Gallery, AUT, Auckland, in 2010.
Project curator Hanna Scott describes it:
“The postcards literally become the exhibition, challenging the traditional use of postcards to venerate the landscape. These are not typical tourist sites… The project is significant because it highlights how artists travel and conduct research. Their images are often driven by unusual impulses—like Wayne Barrar photographing underground spaces, or Mark Adams documenting the Treaty of Waitangi signing sites.”
The exhibition evolved from an interest in experiencing travel through someone else’s perspective.
“I became fascinated by the idea that we often experience landscapes primarily through photography, rather than direct encounter. The most elegant way to capture this was to use sites we wouldn’t typically visit—such as places associated with undocumented immigrants.”
Scott adds:
“The unique format emphasizes the mobility of the postcard medium, and how landscape photography is intertwined with tourism—especially in an era of instant electronic communication.”
Sightseeing is both an exhibition and a book, bringing together 90 photographs by 15 highly regarded contemporary artists from Germany and New Zealand.
Participating artists include: Elger Esser, Haruhiko Sameshima, Sarah Schoenfeld and Shmuel Hoffman, Jeremy Diggle, Anne Noble, Ann Shelton, Wayne Barrar, Grit Schwerdtfeger, Eva Leitolf, Doris Frohnapfel, John Di Stefano, Frank Breuer, Karin Apollonia Müller, Fiona Amundsen, and Mark Adams.
RIM BOOKS
ISBN 978-0-473-16560-4
2010
32pp individual strips of postcards, ill 90 mostly col. 200x138x65mm
Esther Ruelfs, essay
Hanna Scott, Ann Shelton ed.
RRP NZ $60 plus post and packaging
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