New Zealand Film Archive Curator-at-large series (2012) (Co-curator with Jenny Gillam)
A set of four exhibitions in which Gillam and Hansen commissioned 17 New Zealand and international artists to produce new work. Each exhibition investigated a distinct approach to contemporary video production and the archive (video and the photographic still, contempoary Māori video, video and the remix, the video remade.
Future Calls the Dawn, 2011, 2012, 2013. Exhibited at Te Tuhi, Auckland, 2011, as part of Soundfull (a survey of Australian and New Zealand sound art); Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2012;International Electronic Arts Symposium, Sydney Australia 2013; and Soundfull (a survey of Australian and New Zealand sound art), City Gallery Wellington.
A collaborative, multimedia installation and live audio-video performance, the installation consists of a flock of robotic bird alarm clocks deployed over a signwriter’s vinyl wall drawing. This work and the associated performances explore themes of the natural and artificial and the artificial nature of the popular mediascapes we inhabit on a daily basis. (Collaborators Jenny Gillam, Dan Shaw and Dr Kron.)
An exhibition of eight major new sculptural audio video collaborations installed across the five galleries of Te Tuhi Auckland. This project posits the mediascape we inhabit as continuously recompiled from elements of popular culture. The politics of site, space and territory interrogated using disparately sourced audio and video to simultaneously collapse and articulate space. Rather than isolating a particular concept, each collaborator brings their interest in distinctly different but related aspects of popular and audio culture to the project. The development of this project was enabled through receiving the Massey University Māori Research Award 2010. (Collaborators Jenny Gillam, Dan Shaw, Dr Kron, Peter Trevelyan, Andy Thomson and Mike Heynes.)
