Press Release

Conor Clarke’s new moving image presentation Night Writing was created in collaboration with conservationist Ted Howard, Chair of Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust. It combines thermal imagery of the endangered Kaikōura tītī (Hutton’s Shearwater) in nocturnal flight, with questions and thoughts as to why these ancient seabirds nest and breed so high above the sea, how they find their way in the dark, why they continue to return here despite the growing difficulty and risk, what her relationship with them was, is and is supposed to be, and the ethics of conservation work and lens-based practice.

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Conor Clarke is a New Zealand artist whose photographic practice examines the politics of image-making and representation, with a particular focus on how historical methods of representation shape cultural understandings of the natural landscape.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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