Angency, the creative "arm" of Now Future, premiered it's first project in Sept 2011. Te Kore — Street of Breaths featured at ISEA 2011 in Instanbul as part of the Uncontainable: Second Nature show curated by Ian Clotheir. The sound-based work uses breath sounds kindly provided by Melissa Billington (and one of her yoga classes).

An in-situ recording of the installation, which is located at 3 sites around and in the gallery space, can be accessed here.

In Maori cosmology, Te Kore is the void of potential, the moment before the universe was created. This work proposes to bring an experience of the void of potential into the phatic and microcosmic: to bring awareness to the viewer of the place just before we inhale. This pause that takes place once our lungs are empty is the parallel to the pre-life moment.

The artists in this work are exploring relationships between Te Kore and the streets of Istanbul, navigating a phenomenological shift from exterior public space to interior private which is also a cosmological space — the boundless space of interiority.In Maori cosmology, Te Kore is the void of potential, the moment before the universe was created. This work proposes to bring an experience of the void of potential into the phatic and microcosmic: to bring awareness to the viewer of the place just before we inhale. This pause that takes place once our lungs are empty is the parallel to the pre-life moment.