Living Halls was a collaborative archival project by artist Fiona Jack that engaged with ‘living memorials’ built following WWII, after the New Zealand Government offered subsidies for war memorials to be constructed as utilitarian community spaces.
First presented at The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in 2010, this project comprised paintings, drawings, honour boards, documents, database, photos, stories and audio recordings detailing the social, architectural and art histories of the War Memorial Halls of Aotearoa.
Join Jack in conversation with Living Halls contributor Bill McKay, for a discussion of the project through the lens of the architecture of memory. This conversation will be recorded with a transcript published on Gus Fisher Gallery’s website at a later date.