Un-PACE-d / past / CBD Red Zone / 08.14 Christchurch

Mike Hewson: Original PACE sign - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Original PACE sign 2013

No dimension specified
Documentation of PACE signage on Christchurch Art Gallery facade
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: PACE (1st iteration of installation) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

PACE (1st iteration of installation) 2013

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl hung on damaged heritage structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: PACE (1st iteration of installation) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

PACE (1st iteration of installation) 2013

Dimensions vary
Digital print on vinyl hung on damaged heritage structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: (View of Shands building prior to stabilisation) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(View of Shands building prior to stabilisation) 2013

Dimensions vary
Documentation of damaged heritage structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: (Detail of Shands building prior to stabilisation) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(Detail of Shands building prior to stabilisation) 2013

Dimensions vary
Documentation of damaged heritage structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: PACE on Shands - Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand

PACE on Shands 2013

55 x 80 cm approx.
Digital print on fine art paper
Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: Un-PACE-d (Original mock-up, 2nd iteration) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Un-PACE-d (Original mock-up, 2nd iteration) 2014

No dimension specified
Digital collage (prior to construction firm deciding to place 3 no. 40ft containers in foreground)
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) (2nd iteration) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(Installation View) (2nd iteration) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: Un-PACE-d (2nd iteration) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Un-PACE-d (2nd iteration) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: (During relocation to new site) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(During relocation to new site) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: Un-PACE-d (new location) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Un-PACE-d (new location) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: Un-PACE-d (new location) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Un-PACE-d (new location) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson: (Installation View) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(Installation View) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Mike Hewson:  (Installation View) (new location) - Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

(Installation View) (new location) 2014

10.5 x 7.5 x 6.2m
Digital print on exterior bracing of an earthquake damaged structure
Christchurch CBD, New Zealand

Info

"Un-PACE-d" was an installation project starting in mid 2013 on Shands Emporium, an important heritage icon and the earliest remaining wooden building in Christchurch CBD. PACE is an project management company working in Christchuch during the post-earthquake rebuild effort. Their advertising banners were drapped indiscrimiately over a vast number of earthquake damaged buildings in the CBD. They were so pervasive in the first two years of the recovery that effectively acted as an unsanctitioned low-brow rebranding for the recovering city. The first iteration used an altered photograph of their banner as hung on the Christchurch Art Gallery, this was printed and hung on the fenced-off Shands Emporium building. The banner remained on the building for two weeks before being removed by an unknown party.

The Shands building was relocated in early 2014 to an adjacent construction site for storage. Documentation of the previous installation was then stickered back onto the newly boarded-up building, the PACE branding had been deleted at the request of the site's developer. He also placed a large shipping container in front of the image, obscuring much of the image from public view.

In late 2014 the building was purchased by the Christchurch Heritage Trust and relocated to another central city location to await restoration. The site placed the structure next to a previously installed temporary artwork "Prop Hide" on the Trinity Church heritage building.