The public is invited to take a chair home from the famous earthquake memorial

An artwork created in the center of Christchurch to remember the 185 people who died in the 2011 earthquake will be demolished on Saturday, with the public invited to take a chair home with them.

Artist Peter Magindy, who created the first artwork 185 Empty Chairs on an empty site in 2012, said chairs not taken will be burned at a later date or sent to a landfill.

He said, “I hope people will take a chair.”

“I think they belong in a garden. The ideal would be to plant something under it and let it take over the chair, until it slowly collapses.”

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He said the chairs did not directly represent the people who died in the Canterbury earthquakes.

“It’s about absence.

“It is about the empty chair. The person is not the chair. It is the absence.”

The artwork was first installed by Oxford Tce Baptist Church, then moved to the St Pauls Trinity Pacific Presbyterian location across from the CTV building. It was then moved to its present location on the site of the old St Luke’s Anglican Church on the corner of Kilmore and Manchester Streets in 2021.

The two-year lease on the site expires in March and the Anglican Church Trustees have put the land up for sale.

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The public is invited to take a chair home with them on Saturday, and the remaining chairs will be burned or sent to a landfill.

Majindi said the chair farewell ceremony will take place between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Saturday. The gathering will include sipping tea and ringing the bells hanging in the heritage bell tower on the site.

The artist might also burn a small model of a chair he had carved from a tree branch.

The only way left for the artwork, he said, was to make it permanent, which would cost about $1.5 million in addition to the price of any site.

“Raising money is going to be really hard.

“The cost of land around the city will also be difficult.”

He said the best option would be to disperse the 185 white seats between the stands at the new stadium being built in central Christchurch.

This is the only option I can see.

“This will be a great way to remember.”

He said he felt it was right for his artwork to end naturally.

Chairs is more about caring for the grief of those left behind.

“So, this is like moving forward.”

Charlie Gates and Philip Matthews

Memorials to the tragedy and departure of the Reconstruction Authority broker in this bonus episode of Munted, a series about the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes.

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