The Weight of Wood

If the spirit of an age is a zeitgeist, then ours is surely a poltergeist. Noisy, disruptive and unwelcome, its clamour means it is impossible to ignore. Its footprint, or rather its bootprint, is all over curator Micheal Do’s brief to those participating in 2022’s at the Aotearoa Art Fair: to directly and critically engage with a specific locality outside the art fair. At a time when travel beyond Warkworth is illegal, Do is asking his artists to transport the audience from the Cloud on Auckland’s waterfront to somewhere