Little Doomsdays
by Nic Low
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A unique collaboration in words and art It's said - in the quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse - that in the late twentieth century an unstable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngai Tahu hapu in Murihiku created what has come to be known as the Ark of Arks. It's said that this project aimed to catalogue all known arks from the last five millennia. It was a failed attempt to capture previous civilisations' failed attempts to preserve whatever was valuable to them: waka huia, time capsules, caches, burial ships, seed banks. The fifth in the ground-breaking korero series conceived and edited by Lloyd Jones, Little Doomsdays is another rich collaboration between an artist and a writer. This time legendary musician and painter Phil Dadson responds to a wildly innovative text that's steeped in te ao Maori by Ngai Tahu writer Nic Low.
Author: Nic Low
ISBN: 9781991016256
Publisher: Massey University Press
Published: 14/09/2023
Format: Hardback
About the Author
Phil Dadson ONZM was founder of the acclaimed music group From Scratch. He lectured at the Elam School of Fine Arts from 1977, leaving in 2001 to take up full-time art practice. In 2010 the Wellington Sculpture Trust commissioned his Akau Tangi, a wind-powered sculpture on Cobham Drive. In 2015, the feature film Sonicsfromscratch, documenting Dadson's career, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival. He is a 2001 Arts Foundation Laureate, and is a recipient of a New Zealand Antarctic Artist Fellowship and a Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Awards. Dadson is represented by Trish Clark Gallery in Auckland. He lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Nic Low (Ngai Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former co-director of WORD Christchurch. An author of short fiction, essays and criticism, his writing on wilderness, technology and race has been widely published and anthologised on both sides of the Tasman. He received the 2018 CLNZ Writers' Award, and his story collection Arms Race was named a New Zealand Listener and Australian Book Review Book of the Year. His 2021 book, Uprising, detailed nine walking expeditions into the Ngai Tahu history of Ka Tiritiri-o-te-moana, the Southern Alps. He lives in Otautahi Christchurch.