Little Doomsdays

By Nic Low & Phil Dadson

It’s said- in quiet between buses, down the back of the pub, in the hushed elevator rising to the penthouse- that in the late twentieth century an usntable grouping of scholars, writers and fanatics from several Ngai Tahu hapu in Murihiku created what has come to be known as the Ark of Arks.

It’s said that this project aimed to catalogue all known arks from the last five millenia.

It was a failed attempt to capture previous civilisations’ failed attempts to preserve whatever was valuable to them: waka huia, time capsules, caches, burial ships, seed banks.

You will be told to visit the great wharenui at Oraka and to find the stainless-stell waka huia. You are to take out the screens and power them up. As you have just done.

You have the found the Ark of Arks. You are reading it now.

We have found you at last.

Part of the ground-breaking kōrero series conceived and edited by Lloyd Jones, this is another rich collaboration between an artist and a writer.