Abstract
The 'WeakForce' is an organisational infrastructure with a pooling impetus. Selected individuals, students, and research projects that work with (other international and national) academic individuals, institutions and research organisations gather together under the auspices of the UFT project to collectively build the agency and application of co-operative visual art research outcomes. In this iteration of the WeakForce artist researchers worked with their respective individual creative practices and disciplines to examine co-operatively, the language, systems, structures and stereotypes that often determine types and qualities of power/energetic relations between individuals, groups, objects, and sites and spaces. They deployed spatial and sculptural (e.g. objects, sound, video, installation, landscape/architecture) practices and socially oriented art practices (e.g. institutional critique, political, participatory modes of art making) to achieve shared or integrated goals and creative outcomes with potential positive application beyond individual discipline fields or territories. *Bruce Barber (CA), Benji Bradley (NZ), Liz Bird (NZ), Anthony Cribb (NZ), Paul Cullen (NZ), Eugene Hansen (NZ), Laresa Kosloff (AU), Lee Ihnbum (KR), Kim Morgan (CA), Matthew Sansom (UK), Daniel von Sturmer (NZ/AU), Andy Thomson (UK/NZ), Layne Waerea (NZ), Suh Youngsun (South Korea), Deborah Rundle (NZ), Joseph Jowitt (NZ), Ziggy Lever (NZ) and others, including Darcell Apelu (NZ) and Cora-Allan Wickcliffe (NZ).