'Freight 2.0' is a time-based performance and sonic installation. It is powerful and alive, yet sensitive to its environment; it creates profound experiences and awakens in audiences feelings of anticipation, anxiety, tension along with contemplation and self reflection. ‘Freight 2.0’ is a continuation of Freight 1.0. It was performed in the existing post-industrial site on Auckland’s waterfront, Silo 6.

In response to the site the work shifted to another scale and dimension.

8 tons of ice inside of 6 concrete silos over five days transformed into a wet and cold environment. Two performers ‘divine labourers’ quietly performed precise acts at their tables sorting through human hair; beautiful and charged with DNA, collected and donated from diverse cultural and economic places.  The work suspends from the rhythms of daily life yet strongly connects and engages with the city and local communities

‘Freight 1.0 & 2.0 is been created in response to humanitarian and environmental crisis unfolding and escalating in front all of us.

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‘FREIGHT transports

We are in an altered place.

An arrested space-time.

No rules, no signs, no voices.

Just traces.

Invited to witness. Are we part of a trial? A human trail.

Or are we standing over the dead?

We watch. Survivors. True witnesses.

Held uncomfortably in this cool void of emptied futures the rumble,

surge and grain of material life swells and swirls in sonic resonance around and through us. Contained and transported in FREIGHT.’ Carol Brown

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Project made with support of Creative New Zealand 

Acknowledgments : Frith Walker, Bolo, Wynyard Quarter, Waterfront Auckland, Tim Gruchy, Sam Trubridge.

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Foto: Caroline Bindon