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Item Event-specific art in New Zealand : a visual culture analysis of One Day Sculpture and selected case studies : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Visual and Material Culture at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand(Massey University, 2011) Davidson, Henry William; Davidson, Henry WilliamThis thesis introduces the term event-specific art as a new way to view recent art practices. It defines event-specific art as practices that are transmediumistic, participatory, interventionist and temporary in nature and are reliant on documentation, and the effects of media convergence and relational networks. These types of practices also interrogate notions of publicness, spectacle and position themselves in dialogue with entertainment and leisure experiences. Because eventspecific art is engaged in the visual landscape of the everyday, visual culture studies, rather than a more conventional art history conceptual framework is employed. Interviews with artists, curators and critics provide the primary data for this research and close interpretations of event-specific art projects are undertaken. One Day Sculpture, a recent international series of temporary public sculpture based in New Zealand in 2008 - 2009 is the central case study of this thesis. Other case studies are utilised to demonstrate how event-specificity involves certain practices of looking that are present throughout the wider culture. Event-specificity is shown to be a particular modality of visual experience in the early twenty -first century.Item Art and the greater good : ecology and the leisure economy : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand(Massey University, 2010) Wallis, SamanthaArt and the Greater Good: Ecology and the Leisure Economy is a research project concerned with exploring how one could alternatively address the environmental issues of our day through site-specific art. Central to this investigation has been attending to the ways historical and contemporary accounts of environment politics, site specificity, land and environmental art could resonate within a more modest artistic gesture. The resulting work Would you go on without me? reflects the possibility of this by its position in an indeterminate zone; that draws together the demotic, gardening, rainwater harvesting, play and ecology into the manifold of environmental art.