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The Distance Plan
The Distance Plan is a project founded
by Amy Howden-Chapman and Abby
Cunnane that brings together artists, writers and designers to promote discussion of
climate change within the arts. The Distance
Plan works through exhibitions, public forums
and the Distance Plan Press which produces
publications, including an annual journal.
Left: The Distance Plan Website
A collaboration between Sasha Portis & Amy
Howden-Chapman.
Below: Climate and Infrastructure,
Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles
Curated by Abby Cunnane,
Amy Howden-Chapman &
Luke Fischbeck.
Exhibition Design:
Amy Howden-Chapman
The Distance Plan Journal
Issue #2, (2014)
Edited by Abby Cunnane &
Amy Howden-Chapman
Designed by
Amy Howden-Chapman.
The Distance Plan Journal
Issue #4, (2016)
Edited by Abby Cunnane &
Amy Howden-Chapman
Designed by
Amy Howden-Chapman.
All The News I Read
About Climate Change In 2014
Artist book, Amy Howden-Chapman,
with introduction by The News Paper Reading
Club.
What you are about to see , (2016).
Large scale photographic print.
Steel armature. Video 19min.
Installation view: St Paul St Gallery,
Auckland.
A still image of a monument, a wall
dedicated to Los Angeles petroleum industry pioneer Charles S. Jones for ‘community
beautification’. A narrated video alongside
the image looks at how transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau’s mid nineteenth-century observations of Walden Pond in Concord,
Massachusetts are t day used by biologist
Richard Primark to track the local effects of
climate warming. The two-part work contrasts
different eras’ understandings of environmentalism, grounding the often-abstract scientific rhetoric around climate change in simple
observation of everyday change, and the voice of a
persistent observer.
HOLA Public Art (Residency),
Los Angeles, USA, (2105).
During the Summer of 2015 The Distance
Plan collaborated with HOLA - Heart of Los
Angeles students, as part of the HOLA Public
Art Residency. HOLA is in central Los Angeles, one block away from Lafayette Park, and
three blocks from MacArthur Park. Working with students we explored how life in
Lafayette has many of the characteristics of
life in sustainable neighborhoods, with its high
density housing, easy access to a vast web of
public transport and quality green space. The
New Era publication considers the changing
nature of life in Lafayette, from the development and gentrification that will come with
new ‘Promise Zone’ funds, to the proposed
new HOLA building in Lafayette Park
Students working on design for New Era
Publication, ordering the contents, designing
patterns for the dust cover, and choosing pull
quotes
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HOLA Public Art (Residency),
Los Angeles, USA, (2105).
Hola students inviewing each other about
climate change for a short documentary.
See: https://vimeo.com/147174641
HOLA Public Art (Residency),
Los Angeles, USA, (2105).
Students track how they get to HOLA on a
giant map of the neighborhood
The Flood My Chanting, (2008)
Performance, duration; 90 min, Performers,
Bells (loaned from the Museum of City & Sea
Wellington), armature.
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One Day Sculpture: A New Zealand-wide series
of Temporary Art Works.
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A series of bells were temporarily installed
through central Wellington, New Zealand in
a circuit curving from the waterfront though
the central city and back to the sea. The line
which the bells collectively delineate corresponded to the part of the central city most
under threat from future flooding due to sea
level rise. By mapping the space of the city
with sound, the project considered the relationship of the built environment to Wellington’s natural topography. A chain reaction of
sound was activated by the sound of one bell
reaching the position of the next. This sound
cue was acted on by ringers running between
the bell stations.
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You Can’t Unring a Bell, (2010)
Video 9min 29sec
Utilising video documentation from The Flood
My Chanting performance work, this work uses
footage of the event edited to give primacy to
the soundscape created in the performance,
and the sense of urgency created as the
performers moved through the core of
Wellington’s Central Business District.
The Flood My Chanting, (2008)