Aotearoa Rising

In 2019, from Friday the 26th to Sunday the 28th of July, Sarah Lee and Sasha Francis co-hosted a collage stall at Festival for the Future 2019 in which participants were invited to contribute to an emerging exquisite corpse, now titled Aotearoa Rising.

This Abridged selection is the contents of five notebooks the public was invited to collage into. Each notebook held an initial prompt, now corresponding to the discrete sections: “The Aotearoa I know: longing, belonging”; “letting go: mourning”; “feeling together: falling together”; and “the space between.” In respect for the ordering and arrangement of the original material, blank pages were left intentionally.