Layne Waerea is an Auckland based artist whose practice involves carrying out performance art interventions in public spaces. These interventions seek to question, challenge and even exploit social and legal ambiguities in the public social.
An alternative and playful mapping of the pedestrian access-ways, escalators, widened footpaths, and privately-owned artworks created as a result of Auckland Council’s 'bonus floor' scheme in inner-city Tāmaki Makaurau.
A subtle response to recent global conversations around public monuments.
11 plastic buckets on the clothes line in an empty section in order to catch free rain.
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Artists Layne Waerea, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Gabriel White and Tia Barrett discuss their video works for Wild Wild Life with curator Mark Williams.
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.