Tai Timu Tai Pari Exhibition Catalogue

Tai Timu Tai Pari exhibition catalogue.

Tai Timu Tai Pari, the rising and falling of the tides is an inherent element within the catalogues form. Firstly, this is this relatively accessibly reflected in the ripples across the top of the catalogue. A metaphor which functions on a number of levels, both directly as a reference to the Cargo Sheds corrugated iron skin and to the ebb and flood of the tides, rising and falling essentially infinitely when viewed from a human timescale. Personally this repeating pattern is the noise my two year olds fingers make when running across the corrugated iron as we walk past. Me pushing the buggy, him leaning out to touch the surface. The pattern is cut into the catalogues form to physically connect one to the other, building to catalogue, catalogue to building. 

Secondly, the catalogue wrap is an embodiment of change. Contents pages are not bound in the traditional book binding sense, rather they are contained within the bounds of the wrap. Metaphorically reflecting the artwork bound by the buildings confines. There are no page numbers, and the order of pages is not consistent across individual publications. It is expected that as soon as the catalogue is engaged with, and pages are removed to be read the order of pages will change and will constantly change with each reading. Each readers physical experience of the catalogue will differ, and they will impose their own order on the works contained within. I see this as a connection to my overall response to the Cargo Shed site from a place building perspective, where each person forms a unique relationship to this site and ideally will form a unique relationship to the catalogue.