Location: Whakatāne Community Board Gallery, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi

As bodies in the world, we are swimming in fragments. We know moments of connection and linkage. But also the lurch and stutter of dislocation, re-sampling, and the portage of place. What does it mean to return to place? How to operate in the present?

In Ground Hum, place-making is approached as a sticky, dimensional collage process, where fragmentary experiences, materials, visuals, and sound collapse into one another. The installation and video borrow materials and strategies from a variety of everyday contexts. The exhibition is a kind of trial-space, built of gestures and material action. It is an attempt to engage with the present-place — a messy, slippery mash of parts, both physical and digital, human and not.

Jordan Davey-Emms is a local artist from the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Previously, she has written a short online text for What Do I Want? Where Do I Stand?, exhibited as a finalist in the Molly Morpeth Canaday Art Awards, contributed work for Arts Revealed, and received the 2017 Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award. In 2017, she graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with a BFA (Hons).