Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Artists from Aotearoa at 12th Asinabka Festival: The Spirit Awakens
Ottawa Art Gallery and Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
08 August —
13 August 2023
Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival is Ottawa's annual Indigenous film festival, presenting the best contemporary film, digital arts, music, and performance, in Algonquin Territory since 2012. This year's event includes several writers, directors and artists from Aotearoa.
Opening the festival on 8 August is an outdoor screening of We Are Still Here (2022), a feature-length Indigenous film that interweaves eight powerful tales from Australia, Aotearoa, and the South Pacific to tell a story of hope and survival.
Screening as part of Sacred Currents: Shorts on 9 August is Tia Barrett's He Pounamu Ko Āu (2022) and Victoria Hunt's biolumin (2020). Toby Mills and Aileen O'Sullivan's Whetū Mārama – Bright Star (2022) screens on 10 August, and on 11 August, Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) from the Wairoa Māori Film Festival presents Wairoa - Māori & Pacifica Shorts, a selection of shorts films and a talk.
Films in the Wairoa section include Tulouna le Lagi by Pati Tyrell (2023); The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū by Tajim Mohammed-Kapa (2022); The Brylcreem Boys by Rafer Raujtoki (2022); The Machine by Isaac Bell (2022); Bringing Mere Home by Keelan Walker (2022); and They Ain't Woke Yet by Hiona Henare (2022). Hiona Henare is also included in Power-Up, an immersive exhibition at Gallery 101 that considers how Indigenous artists employ cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual reality, video, video games, and digital art, to connect with cultural heritage and expose the hidden histories of colonial violence.
Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival is Ottawa's annual Indigenous film festival, presenting the best contemporary film, digital arts, music, and performance, in Algonquin Territory since 2012. This year's event includes several writers, directors and artists from Aotearoa.
Opening the festival on 8 August is an outdoor screening of We Are Still Here (2022), a feature-length Indigenous film that interweaves eight powerful tales from Australia, Aotearoa, and the South Pacific to tell a story of hope and survival.
Screening as part of Sacred Currents: Shorts on 9 August is Tia Barrett's He Pounamu Ko Āu (2022) and Victoria Hunt's biolumin (2020). Toby Mills and Aileen O'Sullivan's Whetū Mārama – Bright Star (2022) screens on 10 August, and on 11 August, Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) from the Wairoa Māori Film Festival presents Wairoa - Māori & Pacifica Shorts, a selection of shorts films and a talk.
Films in the Wairoa section include Tulouna le Lagi by Pati Tyrell (2023); The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū by Tajim Mohammed-Kapa (2022); The Brylcreem Boys by Rafer Raujtoki (2022); The Machine by Isaac Bell (2022); Bringing Mere Home by Keelan Walker (2022); and They Ain't Woke Yet by Hiona Henare (2022). Hiona Henare is also included in Power-Up, an immersive exhibition at Gallery 101 that considers how Indigenous artists employ cutting-edge technologies, such as virtual reality, video, video games, and digital art, to connect with cultural heritage and expose the hidden histories of colonial violence.
Mata Aho Collective at National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
08 November 2019 —
05 April 2020
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, the second exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s series of presentations of contemporary international Indigenous art, features works by more than 70 artists identifying with almost 40 Indigenous Nations, ethnicities and tribal affiliations from 16 countries, including Canada. Mata Aho Collective from Aotearoa New Zealand are presenting a new work created for this exhibition. Àbadakone animates both galleries and public spaces with art in all media, including performance art, video and commissioned installations, complemented by a dynamic program of workshops, performances, film screenings, talks, and more.
Àbadakone | Continuous Fire | Feu continuel, the second exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada’s series of presentations of contemporary international Indigenous art, features works by more than 70 artists identifying with almost 40 Indigenous Nations, ethnicities and tribal affiliations from 16 countries, including Canada. Mata Aho Collective from Aotearoa New Zealand are presenting a new work created for this exhibition. Àbadakone animates both galleries and public spaces with art in all media, including performance art, video and commissioned installations, complemented by a dynamic program of workshops, performances, film screenings, talks, and more.