Mataaho Collective
Writing
Mata Aho Collective at the Dhaka Art Summit
By Pauline Autet
21.04.2020
We finish our first series focusing on the Asia region with Contemporary HUM Editor Pauline Autet interviewing Mata Aho Collective on their participation in the Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh in February 2020, where they partook in panel discussions and practised a type of waiata (song) called a pātere.
Writing
soft and weak like water
By Amy Weng
13.06.2023
Reporting from a visit to South Korea, curator Amy Weng writes about how works by Yuki Kihara and Mataaho Collective connect the ambitious themes and ideas of the 14th Gwangju Biennale to specific histories from their homes in Aotearoa New Zealand and Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.
Calendar
Yuki Kihara, Mataaho Collective at 14th Gwangju Biennale: soft and weak like water
07 April —
09 July 2023
Gwangju, South Korea
Writing
On Wet Ontologies, Fluid Hierarchies and Hope-Soaked Propositions at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney
By Emma O'Neill
26.08.2022
This year’s Biennale of Sydney, titled rīvus, included the work of Aotearoa-based artists Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi and Mata Aho Collective. Emma O’Neill, a writer working on Gadigal Land, responds to the exhibition and some of the work presented by the 89 participants invited to interact with different forms and bodies of water.
Calendar
Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi and Mata Aho Collective at the 23rd Biennale of Sydney
12 March —
13 June 2022
Sydney, Australia
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Mata Aho Collective at the Toronto Biennial of Art
26 March —
05 June 2022
Arsenal Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada
Writing
Whose Oceania?
By James Belich, Lana Lopesi, Matariki Williams, Pauline Autet
14.11.2018
Missed HUM's panel discussion Whose Oceania? in London? We're excited to publish the transcript of this discussion, which proved to be a stimulating talk interrogating the themes and issues addressed in the exhibition Oceania at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as well as the responses to it from across Te Moana Nui a Kiwa.
Writing
Seeing documenta 14 from the other south
By Jon Bywater
20.10.2017
New Zealand critic Jon Bywater discusses documenta 14 and the work of participating artists from Aotearoa New Zealand, Ralph Hotere, Mata Aho Collective and Nathan Pohio, marking the first time New Zealand artists have been included in documenta.
Writing
Islands on Sale
By Alastair Carruthers, Contemporary HUM, Mataaho Collective, Tessa Giblin
05.08.2017
In this panel discussion between Erena Baker and Bridget Reweti (Mata Aho Collective), Alastair Carruthers (Commissioner of NZ at Venice 2017) and Tessa Giblin (Commissioner and Curator of Ireland at Venice 2017), the participants discuss globalisation, national identity, the politics of representation and New Zealand's role in contemporary international art discourse.
Calendar
Mata Aho Collective at documenta 14
10 June —
17 September 2017
documenta 14 - Kassel, Germany
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Conference: Islands on Sale, New Zealand and Pacific Arts in the Global Marketplace
30 June —
01 July 2017
Regent’s University, London & University of Northampton, U.K.
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Oceania, at the Royal Academy
29 September —
10 December 2018
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K.
Calendar
Janet Lilo, Mata Aho Collective, Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Rosanna Raymond and Natalie Robertson at Honolulu Biennial
08 March —
05 May 2019
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Calendar
Oceania tours to Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
12 March —
07 July 2019
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France.
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Closing weekend of Océanie
28 June —
30 June 2019
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
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Mata Aho Collective at National Gallery of Canada
08 November 2019 —
05 April 2020
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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Mata Aho Collective at Dhaka Art Summit
07 February —
15 February 2020
Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Project
Islands on Sale
Panel discussion in London
A panel discussion organised by Contemporary HUM on globalisation, national identity and the politics of representation at New Zealand Studies Network conference ISLANDS ON SALE, Regent's University London, 1 July 2017.