THINK FOUNDATIONS Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/26/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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A periscope and a geocache archive artwork called 'THINK FOUNDATIONS' has been placed in the Mangere Bridge underpass. DON'T FORGET TO FIND THE PERISCOPE AND TRY IT IN A DRAIN HOLE!

As part of the OTHER WATERS 'Art on the Manukau' events, The Committee for the Reorganisation of Space and Time on Pig Island (CROSTOPI) have installed a periscope and geocache in the pedestrian underpass of Mangere’s big bridge. You can use the periscope to view the bridge's foundations through any of the drain holes that are scattered in the underpass. Besides providing mirror-assisted views of the bridge’s foundations and surroundings, the installation holds documents related to the two and a half year strike staged by the bridge’s builders at the end of the 1970s. Like the anti-Springbok protesters and the occupiers of Bastion Point, Mangere’s builders were confronting Rob Muldoon’s National regime. For many Kiwis Mangere’s unfinished bridge symbolised the breakdown in relationships – between employers and workers, between state and subjects, between the possible and the actual – common across New Zealand and the West during the revolutionary ’70s. By occupying the bridge and setting up continuous pickets, the strikers proposed their own solution to this crisis. Like the occupiers of Bastion Point, they wanted sovereignty over their rohe. The strike eventually ended, and the bridge was finished. Standing on the underpass, listening to the endless rush of fixed capital, visitors are invited to ponder the miracle of collective labour.

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