Displacement James Voller

Offsite Location: 145 High St, Dunedin (corner of High and Manse Streets)

Displacement is a public artwork by James Voller on the facade of the building at 145 High St on the corner of High and Manse Streets. Voller's photographic interventions into public spaces, displace images of suburban housing into an urban environment by overlaying one-to-one scale black and white photographs of typical New Zealand residential building details onto commercial spaces. These depictions of a suburban lifestyle become lost and dislocated in this decaying urban environment hinting at the decreasing accessibility of the quarter-acre dream.

Listen to James Voller speaking with Lynn Freeman on Radio NZ

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Presented alongside Simon Kaan The Asian, Bryce Galloway Same Same (Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People) and Anna Muirhead Polytears. Concerned at different levels with the multifarious construction and performance of identity Kaan, Muirhead and Galloway, through very different mediums, explore the histories, domestic and public circumstances and politics that impact on the construction our lives.