Born and raised in Aotearoa’s Mountain terrain Gail Hocking has a strong connection to the land and natural environments. Utilising a multi-disciplinary practice her research and artistic output centers on the relationship between human and nature or non-human beings, emphasizing environmental concerns through a lens of empathy, intimacy, and vulnerability.

Erosion of a Future Memory

The emotive future uncertainty, grief and time embodied by human uncomfortableness are concepts Hocking explores. Struggling to orientate oneself in a changing environment and the de-stabilised disjointed nature and time we are experiencing are investigative trajectories for new work. Hocking researches the Invisibilities that lie between us (humans) and environmental(nonhuman) loss both physically and emotionally. She asks the questions: As the erosion of a future memory haunts the present so how does one imagine an alternative pathway for our Descendants?  To acknowledge and engage in the uncomfortableness of a dissolving world can we then move forward? What does it feel like to be living through climate collapse.

“There is an unspoken language that makes it possible to bridge every world view…through dialogue – the willingness to set aside preconceived ideas and listen not only with your mind but with your heart.” Leroy Little Bear cited Listening to Stones