Pacific
Writing
Living Things
16.03.2024
In this short piece, originally put together as a HUMcard mailout for Contemporary HUM's Publishers Circle, Aotearoa-based artist Yukari Kaihori reflects on her two-week residency at Ma Umi Residencies on Ishigaki Island, Japan. The impacts of climate change and marine debris on the subtropical island offer the context for a meditation on the ecological entanglements between objects, animals, and places.
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Jasmine Togo-Brisby in Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum
01 March —
02 June 2024
Art Gallery of South Australia, Kaurna land Adelaide, Australia
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Elisapeta Hinemona Heta, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania
23 March —
13 October 2024
Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Asia TOPA Radar
6.30PM — 9.00PM
27 March 2024
The Substation, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Project Banaba
04 November 2023 —
19 February 2024
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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PHOTO 2024: International Festival of Photography
01 March —
24 March 2024
various venues across Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Factory of Tomorrow
16 March —
14 July 2024
Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
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Yuki Kihara, Art Basel Conversation
12.30PM — 1.30PM
30 March 2024
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
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Yuki Kihara, Staging Oneself
24 February —
19 May 2024
Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
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24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
09 March —
10 June 2024
six venues across Sydney, Australia
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Kalisolaite 'Uhila, ISCP residency
01 January —
31 March 2024
ISCP, New York, USA
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Queer PHOTO: Alteration
27 January —
24 March 2024
The Substation, Melbourne, Australia
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The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania
24 October 2023 —
15 January 2024
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kahurangiariki Smith, Lisa Reihana and Yuki Kihara, Singing in Unison Part 8: Between Waves
10 October 2023 —
12 January 2024
Industry City, New York, USA
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Championing Aotearoa New Zealand women artists
Partnership
Contemporary HUM is excited to launch our partnership with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. The Paris-based non-profit organisation, founded in 2014, focuses on the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. During our partnership with AWARE we have worked on including more Aotearoa New Zealand women artists in their online profiles. AWARE is a great resource for championing women artists and we’re thrilled to be working with them. A huge thanks to Creative New Zealand for making this partnership possible.
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Ta Mataora
06 November —
23 December 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Clay Te Pai, Indigenous Artists Exchange
19 October —
24 October 2023
Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji
Project
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series
Partnership
A collaboration between In*ter*is*land Collective and Contemporary HUM consisting of four edited online talanoa (conversations) between several tagata Moana (Māori and Pasifika people) across the globe which centre around the principles of talanoa; ofa, mafana, malie and faka'apa'apa (love, warmth, humour and respect) and the ability to have a "reciprocal knowledge exchange".
The talanoa within this series will focus on topics such as life in the diaspora, moana futurism, queer identities, and ReMoanafication, and all will be individually responded to in written form by Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa), reminding us of our intricate connection and shared ancestry in Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Alteration
14 October —
25 November 2023
Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
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Lisa Reihana in Taiwan International Austronesian Art Triennial
17 October 2023 —
18 February 2024
Taiwan Indigenous Culture Park, Pingtung County, Taiwan
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imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
17 October —
29 October 2023
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada and online
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Amrita Hepi, Planetary Gestures
26 September —
03 November 2023
Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, Dandenong, Australia
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Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts, All Asian Independent Film Festival 2023
06 October —
08 October 2023
Power Plant Cinema, Manila, Philippines
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Rosanna Raymond, Liveworks 2023: OF THE TIME
19 October —
29 October 2023
Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
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Lisa Reihana and Yuki Kihara, sis Pacific Art 1980-2023
26 August 2023 —
08 September 2024
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
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Reuben Paterson, Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue)
25 August —
30 September 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective in 22nd Biennial Sesc Videobrasil: Memory is an editing session
18 October 2023 —
25 February 2024
Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil
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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
10 October —
12 October 2023
Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
Writing
Ngā Huarere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: Pacific Weathers
By Melody Nixon
01.08.2023
US- and Aotearoa-based writer Melody Nixon responds to digital artworks in Te Moana Nui a Kiwa; a weather station in the World Weather Network project featuring works by over twenty artists from Aotearoa and Oceania. One of twenty-eight stations in the project, the station featured online artworks by Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Denise Batchelor and Maureen Lander, The Breath of Weather Collective, and a collaboration between Janine Randerson, Ron Bull, Rachel Shearer, Stefan Marks and glaciologist Heather Purdie. Nixon discusses how a selection of these works may reorient our approaches to the climate crisis.
