HUM turns 6! Support the next 6

Join us as we celebrate our birthday!! Visit our Support page to find out how you can contribute to the future of HUM. By choosing to support us, you’ll help us continue championing New Zealand's creative practitioners working in an international context, increasing their—and Aotearoa’s—visibility on the world stage.

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Lemi Ponifasio, Amor a la muerte (Love to Death)

07 July —
08 July 2023

Joliette Theater, Marseille, France

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Jade Hadfield, MIRROR: New views on photography

19 May 2023 —
28 January 2024

State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Kate McIntosh, Lake Life

18 May —
21 June 2023

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium & Schäxpir, Linz, Austria

Writing

The Octopus Against a Sharp White Background

By Amit Noy

14.05.2023

Writer and choreographer Amit Noy reviews Atamira Dance Company’s performance of Te Wheke in the Lenape territory of New York City, and finds a work enlivened by indelible performances and critical Indigenous inquiry.

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Martin Patrick, book release, The Performing Observer: Essays on Contemporary Art, Performance, and Photography

01 March 2023 —
01 March 2028

online and from selected global stockists

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Simon Denny, Metaverse Landscapes

14 May —
16 July 2023

Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany

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Nikau Hindin and Rongomai Kapiri-Mārama Hoskins, O Quilombismo

01 June —
26 August 2023

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Writing

Thinking Historically in the Present

By Megan Tamati-Quennell

17.04.2023

Having attended the opening week of Sharjah Biennial 15, Megan Tamati-Quennell writes about the work of Aotearoa artists Robyn Kahukiwa and Kahurangiariki Smith, included in this large-scale exhibition in the United Arab Emirates, and how Hoor Al Qasimi has carried the curatorial mantle from Okwui Enwezor to create an exhibition that both celebrates the late curator’s legacy and the diversity, solidarity and strength of non-Western art.

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André Hemer, Troposphere

11 May —
24 June 2023

Hollis Taggart, New York City, USA

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Fiona Amundsen, Backlight photography festival 2023

17 June —
15 October 2023

Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Writing

Rocks on Wheels and Flying Shoes

By Rosemary Forde

28.03.2023

Curator Rosemary Forde explores the art-historical and civic context in which artist Mike Hewson’s recent public playground in Naarm Melbourne, Rocks on Wheels, has landed. 

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Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, 'Legacies' international tour

03 April —
31 August 2023

ADM Gallery Singapore; Stelo, Portland, USA; LUX, London; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; Storage Art Space, Bangkok

Writing

“Sorry … Ummm”: Mystery, Mark Fisher, and Laughter

By Jasmine Gallagher

06.03.2023

Artist Campbell Patterson discusses his recent residencies, delayed by over two years due to the pandemic, at Headlands, Sausalito, and Gasworks, London, with friend and poet Jasmine Gallagher. They share their reflections on institutions of art and medicine, and on carving out their own spaces for the process of creation. 

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Dane Mitchell in We Are Electric, curated by Anna Briers

14 February —
24 June 2023

University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia

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Jess Johnson, we can’t keep going the way we’ve been going but we know no other way to go

16 November 2022 —
04 February 2024

Shepparton Art Museum, Yorta Yorta Country, Shepparton, Australia

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FAFSWAG, Manchester International Festival 2023

29 June —
16 July 2023

Manchester International Festival, Manchester and wider region, UK

Writing

To Move Across a Window

By Francisco González Castro

31.01.2023

Texas-based artist and writer Francisco González Castro was first introduced to the many-armed project Beberemos El Vino Nuevo, Juntos! / Let Us Drink the New Wine, Together!, co-created by artist and educator alys longley and featuring no less than 19 Aotearoa contributors, just as the pandemic was escalating internationally. Here, he considers the lessons it presented to audiences in Santiago in the summer of 2022, just as the distance that defined the collaborators’ interactions was once again traversable.

Writing

Forever Fresh Talanoa Series 2.2

By Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Lana Lopesi

12.12.2022

Our second episode in this four-part talanoa series, produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective, sees Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Grace Iwashita-Taylor and Lana Lopesi discuss their recent writing initiatives, each focused on fostering the conditions that allow Indigenous writing to flourish. Written response by Aotearoa writer and curator Ioana Gordon-Smith.