GRETA ANDERSON

Screen Saver is the result of a collaboration between artist Greta Anderson and composer and experimental musician Sonya Waters who responded to Anderson’s video imagery of tourist sites in the Central Plateau of Te Ika-a-Māui the North Island. In this mesmerising, extended length video we travel from the mountains Tongariro and Ngauruhoe to the Huka Falls on the Waikato River and our final destination is the geothermal valley Ōrākei Kōrako. We’re swept along on an undulating, eddying river of images and otherworldly electronic music and the main character is water. A screen saver is a generic image of a sublime landscape that appears on our computer screen and is designed to give us a brief moment of respite from our digital toil. The title of this work and Anderson’s portrayal of well known tourist sites signal her intention to explore humanity’s transactional relationships with nature. These are beautiful places and they are also sites of extraction – rich in natural resources.