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SUMMARY:Inhabit Iteration 4: Ngakinga
DESCRIPTION:The Inhabit Project\nNow in its fourth year\, Inhabit is an ongoing public art project that reimagines vacant or underused urban spaces as temporary sites for connection and creative exchange. Exploring how our ecosystems of care have evolved in Aotearoa\, and how we share our experiences. \nThe project features hand-sewn banners that give public voice to the intimate stories woven through it. Made from iconic New Zealand cotton redline nappies\, the banners are naturally dyed with pigments sourced from the artist’s kitchen and garden\, and stitched with participants’ messages in cut-out felt text drawn from conversations during Inhabit Iterations 1 (2022)\, 2 (2023) and 3 (2024). Evolving from a wall of Post-it note reflections\, each note has been transformed into a banner\, collectively forming an immersive\, process-driven installation that continues the dialogue between Inhabit participants and co-creators. \nIteration 4: Ngakinga\nIteration 4: Ngakinga\, is a participatory social sculpture that nurtures interconnectedness\, community collaboration\, and ecosystems of care. Conceived as a living laboratory for taiao\, creativity\, and natural dyeing practices and activated at Papa ki Awataha\, Northcote\, from March 2025 to April 2026. \nArtist Holli McEntegart has collaborated with Charmaine Bailie (Te Uri o Hau – Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara) to grow a natural dye garden on a 200-square-metre site at Papa ki Awataha—the home of the puna that feeds Te Awataha. The land was bare\, raw\, hard and cracked\, waiting to be nurtured back to its full potential. They are to inhabit here for four seasons\, nourishing the whenua intentionally along its journey to good health and growing natural dye plants to create hand dyed fabric artworks with the community. \nNgakinga is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and native and non-native plants to co-create public art\, ritual and other care practices that weave together our diverse ancestral threads while respecting Māori sovereignty\, in honour ultimately of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. As a social sculpture\, this intentionally cultivated space will grow plants and flowers selected for their natural dyeing properties to create textile art. \nThe project invites people to come together on the land—to build community through care\, creativity\, and connection. It is a place to share personal stories and collective reflection with our feet in the soil and our faces in the flowers; a space to make art with natural dye plants through a lens of decolonisation\, sustainability\, and ecosystem restoration as the Northcote town centre undergoes redevelopment. \nThe banners sewn and installed at Ngakinga will be dyed with colour extracted from plants grown throughout the year and embroidered with text telling the story of the garden. At Northart Gallery\, a parallel installation will feature hand-dyed banners tracing the Inhabit project’s journey through its first three iterations. \nNatural Dye Workshops\nThis exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public natural dye workshops that are also part of Ecofest and held in the garden itself throughout March 2026. Find the EcoFest listings for the workshops here. \nWe acknowledge Mana Whenua as the kaitiaki of this land\, and honour their tīpuna\, past\, present\, and emerging. \nNgakinga is developed in collaboration with Uru Whakaaro and supported by The Tīpuna Project\, the Auckland City Council Creative Communities Scheme\, Northart\, and the Kaipātiki Project.
URL:https://ecofest.org.nz/event/inhabit-iteration-4-ngakinga/2026-03-27/
LOCATION:Northart\, 1 Ernie Mays Street Te Kopua o Matakamokamo | Northcote Town Centre\, 1 Ernie Mays Street Te Kopua o Matakamokamo | Northcote Town Centre\, North Auckland\, 0627
CATEGORIES:Te Whaihanga/Makers' Mayhem
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