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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lidnsey Mackie

A curious collectors archipeligo Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

The ports of Auckland as an enclave The Ports of Auckland act as their own territory, by being segregated from the public, and an area of high security, it requires its own law enforcement. This exclusivity is due to its function as one of our main ports of import and export, consequently housing a significantly wealthy but also temporal collection of goods on a day to day basis.

Subsequently its reclaimed nature makes it neither land nor water but an additional mass, built for trade and industry expansion that sits between Auckland’s CBD and the Waitamata harbour. This landscape as a result becomes one of Auckland’s most valuable sites of realestate.

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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

Islands of exclusivity: wealthy enclaves and fortresses Islands encompass many forms of the notion of exclusivity, their displacement affords isolation yet as an imagined landscape we project our own desires onto them, if close enough to explore we will venture there even if somewhat volatile. We see them inhabited for vastly different reasons but often for exclusion, through history they have been used for quarantine or the separation of marginalised members of society; for fortresses and war defences; sanctuaries for wildlife and plants; and finally what is probably most common now private ownership and seclusion from the outside world.

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A curious collectors archipeligo

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the relocation of the ports this area is re-dredged creating a new waterfront and beach, the development includes a new ferry and cruise ship terminal, cultural centre remediation works, food and leisure and sustainability centre. The dredged land is removed is relocated to create 100 private islands on the ports edge that (a) act as a breakwater for the newly sanded shoreline (b) funds this public development and (c) creates a new form of tourism or spectacle of wealth through public voyeurism

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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

A collection of collections, spectacle of wealth The ‘spectacle of wealth’ has existed through the ages From Roman emperor Hadrian who collected the souvenirs from the far reaches of his Empire, and displayed them at his Villa at Tivoli. To Walt Disney who extrapolated his childhood electric train set into a much larger and varied collection of miniatures at his magic castle. To the modern day spectacle that could include any number of our obsessions with celebrities and their very public displays of wealth such as the Kardashian’s. However often these collections are anything but extravagant, yet we are still curious. Therefore these islands won’t house collections that are necessarily valuable, but will be how wealthy the owners are and their ability to display their collections.

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A curious collectors archipeligo Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

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Defining The collection: To have and to hold, an intimate history of collector and Collecting The book ‘to have and to hold, an intimate history collectors and collecting’ Enabled a brief and framework for the selection of the collections. It contains a series of narratives of collectors and their bizarre and obsessive collections throughout time.

I have defined the layout of my islands based on the chapters within the book and sub chapters and the collections within those islands create sub islands and so forth. As the collections are quite old the proposal is to take the essential ideas of each chapter and collections and find there modern counterpart.

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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

100 islands: A Tax haven The proposal for this project is that these Islands are used as safety deposit boxes for wealthy collectors. They are fortresses, offered the highest security, and their reincarnation as islands creates a curious voyeurism of the public as they project their own perceptions of ‘islands’ as being exotic, exclusive and desirable.

While their owners are tempted by the financial benefits of a tax haven , a land covenant stipulates that the collection/island must be open for viewing by the public at least once a year. Similar to that of the Gibbs Farm. Meant as a provocation on the growing private and foreign investment within New Zealand, and growing separation of wealth and consumption of goods.

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A curious collectors archipeligo Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

Foie Gras Island A collection of preserved diseased livers, part of the medical collections category of the archipelago, There is a long history of collecting preserved body parts, for research and education into the human body, disease and disability. These collections are housed in either museums, universities or hospitals but have been known to historically have been the personal collections of surgeons and those curious about the medical world. The collection of diseased livers talks about over consumption, obesity while it sits along numerous medical collections of plastic surgery, sperm banks etc that talk about consumerism in the medical industry.

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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

Isle of Vaults- A collection of valuable goods This collection takes the form of a sea fortress, with impenetrable exterior walls, it is secure and secrete from curious onlookers, as well as protected from natural forces. Pressurised vaulted chambers hold priceless artworks, gold and gems for the owners own satisfaction.

These are the traditional collections that we would associate with the wealthy but would never get an opportunity to see. The covenant allows the public a real and physical experience of these collections.

The vaults also loosely originated around the use of off shore tax havens and their role in tax evasion for large corporations and the hiding of money and valuables around the world.

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A curious collectors archipeligo Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

A vavirum for the exotic a collections of the exotic Once collecting flora and fauna in ‘pleasure gardens’ was both an emblem of the collector’s impressive global reach through international trade while also glorifying them and the social world they lived in. They were mainly extensions of medical gardens which included other exotic plants and animals collected from trade routes around the world.

This collection houses exotic plants and hybrid taxidermy, and is displayed in a large vivarium Traditionally a large glass display case that houses living animals and plants that often shouldn’t have been displayed in glass.

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A curious collectors archipeligo

Brooke Bardell-Munro Chris Barton / Lindsay Mackie

‘Plastic fantastic’ island- a collections of mass produced collectibles This island is for those who have ever got caught up in the collection of playing cards, dolls, or any collectables of the mass produced description that have the possibility of being endlessly manufactured.

It talks about the consumption of goods, “This is the apotheosis of consumption; utilitarian object that is intended not to have a use, but to be placed on the shelf, skipping the phase of circulation, utilization altogether”¹ . The collection is housed in a UV light sensitive pink synthetic volcanic island that glows while also progressively getting more sunburnt throughout the year.

11 1. Blom, Philipp, To have and to hold, An intimate History of collectors and collecting, England, The Penguin press, 2002,