Teresa Peters work ‘excavates’ primordial ‘artefacts’ and navigates pseudo-archaeology and abstract geology. Molten entities in intimate combustion. Navigating the prehistoric futuristic, she fuses earth bodies into fluid digital realms and ‘archives’ them as photographic artefacts.
ECHOES won the Portage Premier Ceramic Award, 2021 at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery ~ the first work in the 21 year awards history to be presented as a photograph.
DISASTROUSFORMS.COM, 2020 is a body of ceramic and clay artefacts from a faux sci-fi disaster, archived on an online platform ~ exploring natural disasters, natural history and archiving. Disaster as the mother of revolution. It is inspired by/archived with Auckland Museum Collections Online and made with the support of Creative New Zealand. Echoing Berlin club culture and drawing museum collections out into the civic centre. It launched on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, as a large-scale cosmic audio-visual event in 2021. As Walter Benjamin observed, collections are never finished.
This new body of clay & ceramic ‘artefacts’ echoed the grounded body type forms in Maree Horner’s Geological Ruminations. GROUND ZERO is part of the series of collaborations or pairings between the mother and daughter. In 2021 they filmed the Taranaki lahars for MOLLUSK REFERENCE, as part of MOLTENENTITIES.COM: Notes on moving mountains, in From things flow, at RM Gallery. “Filming the dusky transition into night over the undulating forms... On the surface we stand in the moment… lava and liquid earth flow through our minds… space becomes timeless out there on the ruptured mountain edge, somewhere between the mollusks - the mountain - the cosmos…’ I’m happy to swap a world of wholes and parts and distances for intimacy... I’m happy for a time of zero landscape.’ (Zero Landscape ~ Timothy Morton)
