Container Art + Guerrilla Urbanism

As part of Intensity Week we asked 10 Artists to inhabit shipping containers located throughout Wellington City for one month. The ambition was for each artist to reinterpret the space in which they were located or to critique an aspect of urban life through their artistic practice. There were artists creating temporary landscapes that changed daily, a team re-fashioning plastic bags into other objects, a sound artist creating different sound scapes while on a Dérive. A team from Enjoy Gallery spread propaganda at the Central Railway station while another organised soap-box speakers across from Parliament. A team from Victoria University mapped various parts of the city and a local artist used his container as a blank canvas highlighting early Wellington’s reliance on Trams.

This project was run as a trial for a larger project ConART with an ambition for a permanent travelling arts colony providing much needed studio space for local artists.



Image Credits: Morgan Bernard, Robert Appierdo, Naiomi Lamb, Adrian Taylor