T & G Building

They set up an installation that draws from the gallery's physicality and their time in the space, as they examine the uses and furnishing of the place.

T and G Building's investigations into the site involved temporary and flexible structures that responded to the layout of the Enjoy space, dislocating the local ambient sounds both inside and out of the gallery and processed and grew from raw materials.

As Coster and Macdonald responded to the brevity of their visit in Wellington they built on the recourses currently available and marked the passage of time. Visitors to the gallery could expect to see a variety of memorabilia, vegetables growing in the sunshine, a portable kitchen producing environmental elements, folding tables, and imagery and aesthetics sourced from the zeitgeist of 1970's Architecture magazines and free-press commune literature.

Occupying Christchurch's High Street Project in the winter of 2006, the pair developed a working methodology which consolidated their independent solo works to date, functioning as a comfortable space and selective "best of", through the lens of social practice. Later they were commissioned to quickly renovate and create a reading room in the HSP space. In Wellington T & G Building will expand upon this with more up to date results and refinements of their research. Hinged on a mixture of site-specificity and process, the artists discuss their project as "a travelling show, exploring kitset etiquette and ways of organizing space and ideas."