Identity
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Areez Katki, As this chin melts on your knee
11 January —
24 February 2024
TARQ, Mumbai, India
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Architecture of Aroha, Luleå Biennial 2024
02 March —
26 May 2024
Kulturenshus, Luleå, Sweden
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp
01 June 2024 —
31 January 2025
Saletoga Sands Resort, Upolu Island, Sāmoa
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Queer PHOTO: Alteration
27 January —
24 March 2024
The Substation, Melbourne, Australia
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Claudia Kogachi, Labour of Love
20 January —
17 February 2024
Phillida Reid, London, UK
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Telly Tuita, Tongpop's Great Expectations
03 January —
28 March 2024
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown NSW, Australia
Writing
What is held between bodies
By Clémentine Dubost
31.10.2023
After two years of development with his immediate family and numerous international residencies, Amit Noy premiered A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope in Paris this September, onstage alongside his mother, father, sister and grandmother. Clémentine Dubost spoke with Noy to explore the complexities of this work and his wider practice.
Project
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.
Writing
Mataaho 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 Mataaho 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.
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Li-Ming Hu, Can it be I’m not meant to play this part?
6.00PM — 8.00PM
26 October 2023
The 8th Floor, New York, USA
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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Ruth Buchanan, *INNEN
15 October —
26 November 2023
Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Telly Tuita and Yvonne Todd in Ballarat International Foto Biennale
26 August —
22 October 2023
Art Gallery of Ballarat and other venues, Ballarat, Australia
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Amit Noy and family, A Big Big Room Full of Everyone's Hope
07 September —
01 October 2023
Théâtre de la Ville—Les Abbesses in Paris and National Ballet of Marseille, France
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Maungarongo Te Kawa, Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space
19 August —
24 September 2023
NITJA Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillestrøm, Norway
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Rozana Lee, The Zhelezka Project
19 August —
03 September 2023
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
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Grace Mirams, I'm at the river, I'll meet you by the sea
06 August —
20 August 2023
Gallery Crossing, Gifu, Japan
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Amrita Hepi, Straight torque, twin series
19 August —
23 September 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Writing
On Measuring Distance: THE FIELD
By Helen Hughes
12.07.2023
Art historian Helen Hughes examines how THE FIELD—featuring work by Ming Ranginui, Shannon Te Ao and Shiraz Sadikeen, and curated by Tamsen Hopkinson at Gertrude Contemporary in Naarm Melbourne—inhabits the spaces between categories and haunts institutional memories through a unique curatorial approach.
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Michael Parekowhai and Victoria Hunt, Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter
03 December 2022 —
27 August 2023
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Writing
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series 2.3
By Ioana Gordon-Smith, Michel Mulipola, Skawennati, Solomon Enos
07.06.2023
Our third episode in this new talanoa series, produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective, sees Michel Mulipola, Skawennati and Solomon Enos discuss the importance of shapeshifting, imagination and innovation in Indigenous storytelling, as well as in their respective practices. Written response by Aotearoa writer and curator Ioana Gordon-Smith.
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Philip Trusttum, Mussorgorsky, Music and Myself
02 June —
21 August 2023
The Nomadic Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
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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Richard Frater, What remains of a naturalist
10 December 2023 —
27 April 2024
Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany
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Amrita Hepi, Interfacial Intimacies
08 June —
05 August 2023
Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Tasmania, Australia
Writing
“I’m a burnt tongue, crying for the promised river.”
By Anne-Marie Te Whiu
28.04.2023
In a wide-ranging conversation ahead of the release of poet and performer Daley Rangi’s poetry collection Burnt Tongue, Associate Editor for HUM Anne-Marie Te Whiu talks with Rangi about the role of stories, language and community, on the Gadigal lands of Sydney, Australia.
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Yuki Kihara, Powerhouse Late x Vivid Ideas: Paradise Fair
15 June 2023
Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
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Kate McIntosh, Lake Life
18 May —
21 June 2023
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium & Schäxpir, Linz, Austria
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Jade Hadfield, MIRROR: New views on photography
19 May 2023 —
28 January 2024
State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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.