AUCKLAND COMMUNITY RECYCLING CENTRES

ART RESIDENCY July-Nov 2022

The Auckland Community Recycling Centre Art Residency (ACRCAR) facilitates collaboration between artists and community recycling centres (Waiuku and Tamaki), hosting in-situ exhibitions and public programmes. This is an art residency at the Tamaki Community Recycling Centre, where we set up a workshop and studio space for art-making and group research, and exhibition only at Waiuku.

This project will solidify the connection between the Auckland Community Recycling Centres and the local art community, supporting more sustainable creative practices and bringing awareness to local waste goals. 

Our project will aid the current stakeholder waste targets by creating new material streams for them within the arts sector, particularly many very challenging materials to recycle, reuse, or sell. Finding creative utilisations of waste material is key to reinvigorating waste. The long-term goal is to establish a research network consisting of a scalable waste re-distribution network, a hub for supporting artists in related practice, and being the incubator for more artistic and creative solutions to waste and sustainability, the more significant subject.

Our workshop will be the heart of the operations, a space where skills and techniques are shared for innovation. This workshop acts as a research module by allowing us to iteratively learn, test, refine, craft and generally learn about common waste materials. A facility specialising in dealing with waste materials for art as its priority.

THE FINAL EXHIBITIONS

15th October to 26th November 2022

THE ARTISTS