John Di Stefano - Inter/Section
Civic Square 5th-18th November 2003

November the 5th will see the launch of The Art Box Project, a contemporary art project of public space installations. The Art Box is a 1m3 Perspex cube that will relocate to different sites around Wellington.

Inter/Section is proudly sponsored by Big Image PrintJohn Di Stefano - Inter/Section
Civic Square 5th-18th November 2003

November the 5th will see the launch of The Art Box Project, a contemporary art project of public space installations. The Art Box is a 1m3 Perspex cube that will relocate to different sites around Wellington.

Inter/Section is proudly sponsored by Big Image PrintOver the course of a year, 12 different artists will engage with different sites around Wellington City creating site-specific works within the Art Box. The Project aims to raise discussion around contemporary public art practice and creates a pocket of space for artists to play in a multitude of ways with interpreting the city.

The first artist to exhibit is John Di Stefano, whose work "Inter/Section" will be located at the centre of Wellington's Civic Square from the 5th to the 18th of November. Inter/Section is a public art project that engages with the history of Wellington and the everyday of the city's flows. The artwork is conceived of as a meditation on the lives of those citizens who have lived the city and whose trajectories through it have imprinted it with a history.

The viewer's perception of Inter/Section shifts with proximity to the cube. The black images imprinted onto the surfaces of the cube depict details of the street life, which existed on the site across the late-19th and 20th centuries. The (live) reflection of passers-by activate the work, literally superimposing the past with the present. In this way, Inter/Section becomes, literally, an intersection or node into which, and out of which is overlapped and reflected the transformation of this urban site. Inter/Section is a continuation of Di Stefano's recent work, which engages with the notions of displacement, history and identity by examining how perceptions of memory, space and time shape the articulation of subjectivities.

John Di Stefano, (BFA, Concordia University, Montreal; MFA, UCLA; PhD, Concordia University, Montreal) is an interdisciplinary visual artist/videomaker, writer, curator and educator. At present, he is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Postgraduate Studies programme at Massey University School of Fine Arts in Wellington. He has exhibited his work extensively over the past 12 years, participating in numerous exhibitions, including several one-person shows in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as film & video festivals in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Currently taking place is 'Je Me Souviens (I Remember)', his exhibition at The Moving Image Centre, Auckland.

Big Image Print has kindly partnered the Art Box Project Trust to sponsor Inter/Section by John Di Stefano. The Trust also thanks Wellington City Council and Creative NZ Creative for their support of the Art Box Project through the Creative Communities scheme.

For further details please check out our website or contact:

The Art Box Project Trust
www.artbox.org.nz
artbox@artbox.org.nz
PO Box 24-401, Manners St, Wellington.