Terminus Public Art Project: October 2005

introduction: from project director Ali Bramwell

The Terminus Public Art Project is a site specific project involving a 1000km journey between two cities in the South Island of New Zealand. More than twenty artists travelled from Britain, Australia, South Korea, Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Dunedin to participate.

The project was set up on a series of dualisms: isolation/community, harmony/criticism, nature/culture. Each artist attempted to bridge two distinctly diferent sites with a single project idea developed through at least two works. The works created during the 14 day event included performance, sculpture, installation and dance. The project as a whole is constructed around an interpretive and layered meaning of what constitutes a terminus or terminal point.

Terminus n.: 1.the last or final part or point. 2. either end of a railway, bus route, etc., or a station or town at such a point. 3. a goal aimed for. 4. a boundary or a boundary marker

The event has two main public exhibitions which occurred during October in Nelson and Dunedin consecutively and several satellite events in other sites including galleries. All of the parts are linked but can be seen also as stand alone projects. The locations for the public art events, Haulashore island in Nelson Harbour and Customhouse Quay in Dunedin, are intended to act as the terminal points of a continuum, linking physically through the work of the artists as well as by their shared relationships to the core ideas of the project.

for more see Curators note, from text .