Eve Armstrong makes the perfect Buy Nothing product

LETTING SPACE
“MAKING DREAMS REALTY”

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For Immediate release: 26 November 2010

Eve Armstrong makes the perfect Buy Nothing product

Buy Nothing Day, a 20-year old day of international protest against consumerism, is this Saturday 27 November. And in time for this date and surrounding week of action, artist Eve Armstrong has installed Taking Stock: a sculpture comprised of plastic product packaging. Taking Stock can be found in an empty Wellington retail space at 143 Featherston Street until December 2.
Armstrong’s work is the latest from the Letting Space public art programme which causes us to pause and consider our buying habits, say Letting Space curators Mark Amery and Sophie Jerram.
“Enjoy thrift, celebrate Buy Nothing Day by visiting the shop where there’s nothing for sale” says curator Mark Amery.
Engaging with all the seductive qualities of retail and advertising display, Taking Stock uses the materials that surround our goods – the sort that you usually have to rip apart to get to the goodies.
“Taking Stock and Buy Nothing Day both provide a little breathing space as we head into the crackle and whirl of Christmas shopping and all its attendant packaging”, says Amery.

Taking Stock has just extended its shop hours, 10-6pm Monday-Tuesday, and 11-3pm on Saturdays, with night trading from 10am-9pm on Wednesday December 1st and Thursday December 2nd at 143 Featherston Street Wellington.

The programme Letting Space, supported by Creative New Zealand, seeks to transform the relationship between artists, property developers and their city. It commissions temporary art works from leading New Zealand contemporary artists for commercial CBD spaces. This project is also being supported by property managers CB Richard Ellis.

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