Installation View
Modern design and street culture come together.
Common Ground was a collaborative project between German design crew Via Grafik and Auckland street artists Cut Collective. Together they created a show incorporating wall paintings, graphics and sculptural installations—street art inside. Also featured in the exhibition was Board Art 08, a collection of 40 skate deck designs toured by CoCA with support from Gravis, Analog & Burton. Two ‘Hit the Wall’ sites will be used to expand the show through the gallery, with one site in use for a graphic art competition. The Goethe-Institut also arranged for Alter Ego to screen in Wellington—an international graf art doco featuring artists from around the world, including NZ's own Askew.
On opening night Friday 13 February, both crews led the public through an explosive new artform—LASERTAG. Developed by Graffiti Research Lab (New York), this uses lasers instead of spraypaint to create live, legal, temporary tags on a huge scale.
Events throughout the exhibition season included a skateboard-design workshop, Sunday Scratch sessions and a live public debate on graffiti as an artform chaired by artist/curator Jo Randerson. School-age kids and teenagers have the chance to transfrom a Lower Hutt wall into urban art with the Art4Change street mural workshop. Public programmes supported by Keep Hutt City Beautiful and Secret Level.