Johanna Mechen's work explores performativity and participation in photographic practice and the role this can play in site based investigations. Her current practice focuses on engagement and participation with a site and its community in order to tell ecological, historical and culture stories—while extending the medium's ability to communicate and be experienced, both through and beyond its many processes.
The hidden life of Wellington's Central Park and the stream that runs through it.
A video essay about the Waiwhetū stream in Lower Hutt, where ecological and cultural injustices are excavated along with collective historical memory.