a mixed media collaboration between photographer Tony Nyberg and artists Will Gresson and Iulia Boșcu

Audio Foundation
Parisian Ties And Belts Sub-Basement
4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland Central

3 July - 2 August 2025

Opening: Thursday 3 July, 5.30pm, with refreshments by @libertybrewingnz

Special event: Friday 4 July, 8pm

The effects of climate change unsettle our sense of place, our Tūrangawaewae. Presenting visual and audio material gathered in Tairāwhiti in Aotearoa New Zealand, Shifting Morphologies features a four channel sound work constructed from field recordings made alongside photographs capturing the fragmented remnants left in the wake of significant flooding in 2021 and 2022. Water, long a symbol of renewal and life, can also be a relentless agent of devastation – eroding the controls we impose on the land, leaving behind fractured landscapes. This area of the country bears the brunt of increasingly extreme weather patterns due to global warming, and the burden of years of improvident policy making.

Storms rage and waters rise as monuments to our histories, vanishing, vanished, heavy with loss and vulnerability. By necessity, the region continues to manage ecological and environmental pressures that go unacknowledged in bigger cities. Shifting Morphologies presents to us this disconnection, the growing distance between people whose best chance to address climate change is to come together. It holds the tension between awe and fear, memory and disappearance, confronting the disorientation of a world slipping out of balance.

Special event: Friday 4 July, 8pm

Artists Will Gresson and Lia Boșcu present a live audio work, resonant with the themes of Shifting Morphologies. This special event will also include performances by Australian artist, Eamon Sprod (fka TARAB), and local icons MONSTERWITCH.

More info and artist biographies at audiofoundation.org.nz