Māori
Calendar
Reuben Paterson, Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue)
25 August —
30 September 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Calendar
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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Nikau Hindin, 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
06 September —
10 December 2023
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
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Harete Tito, Akunumustiǂis (Natural Law) residency
02 October —
27 October 2023
Banff Art Centre, Banff, Canada
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.
Calendar
Hamish Bennett, Lee Tamahori, Paul Middleditch and Sonia Whiteman at Toronto International Film Festival
07 September —
17 September 2023
Scotiabank Theatre and TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada
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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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James Webster and Paora Toi Te Rangiuaia, The Galaxy of Standing Stones
01 July —
15 September 2023
Les Lapidiales, Port d'Envaux, France
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Artists from Aotearoa at 12th Asinabka Festival: The Spirit Awakens
08 August —
13 August 2023
Ottawa Art Gallery and Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
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Louie Zalk-Neale and Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Asia Discovers Asia Meeting (ADAM)
31 July —
27 August 2023
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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Lisa Reihana, Forest of being Time
01 July —
24 September 2023
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
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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.
Calendar
Māori Weekend, Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club
24 June —
25 June 2023
Musem Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands
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.
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.
Calendar
Atamira Dance Company, Te Wheke international tour
21 March —
14 April 2023
various locations in Hawai'i and USA
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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18 Aotearoa filmmakers and media artists, 2023 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
04 May —
15 May 2023
Little Tokyo, Gardena Cinemas, and Regal L.A. Live, Los Angeles, USA
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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
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.
Writing
Still Alive
By Stuart Munro
18.10.2022
For this year's Aichi Triennale, writer Stuart Munro takes a trip to some of its more isolated venues to see works by Aotearoa artists Nikau Hindin and Yuki Kihara. Visiting buildings of historical significance where the various parts of the exhibition are installed, Munro unravels the far-reaching connections of Hindin and Kihara's contributions to family, survival and place.
Writing
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series 2.1
By Ioana Gordon-Smith, Rosanna Raymond, Tanu Gago
10.10.2022
Our first episode in this four-part talanoa series, produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective, has Rosanna Raymond and Tanu Gago reflecting on recent international projects and the difficulties of being Moana artists working in countries with cultural amnesia over their colonial pasts. Written response by Aotearoa writer and curator Ioana Gordon-Smith.
Writing
FAFSWAG at documenta fifteen
By Will Fredo
20.09.2022
Berlin-based artist and writer Will Fredo discusses the decolonial gestures at play in Aotearoa-based art collective FAFSWAG’s contributions to documenta fifteen, encompassing works that champion unapologetic self-expression, queer joy and the power of futurity in rejecting colonial inheritances.
Project
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series 2
Partnership
Following on from our 2021 talanoa series, this is a new round of edited online talanoa (conversations) between several tagata Moana (Māori and Pasifika people) across the globe, once again produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective.
Each talanoa in this series focuses on different topics central to life in the diaspora and is individually responded to in writing by Ioana Gordon-Smith, a Sāmoan/Pākehā arts writer and curator living in Aotearoa.
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 Mataaho 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.
Writing
Naahdohbii: To Draw Water & What It Means To Come Together
By Franchesca Hebert-Spence
10.03.2022
Featuring Aotearoa artists Israel Birch, Nikau Hindin, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Nova Paul, Rachel Rakena and Keri Whaitiri, the inaugural Indigenous Triennial at the Winnipeg Art Gallery/Qaumajuq (WAG/Q) in Winnipeg, Naadohbii: To Draw Water, presents a collaborative curatorial approach to Indigenous artists’ work—Franchesca Hebert-Spence visits the exhibition and talks to the curators about the curatorial process, the opportunities offered through cross-cultural exchange, and the adherence to the specificities of place and history fostered through the exhibition.
Project
OCEANIA NOW: Contemporary Art from the Pacific
Partnership
Christie's, Paris presents OCEANIA NOW: Contemporary Art from the Pacific, a physical exhibition and an online sale, produced in collaboration with New Zealand gallerists Alison Bartley and John Gow. Featuring 36 works from 14 artists, many based in Aotearoa, this is the institution’s first dedicated auction of works by contemporary artists from the Pacific. HUM is thrilled to be a media partner of this unprecedented project, running from 11 February - 01 March 2022.
Writing
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series
By Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Ariana Davis, Jaimie Waititi, Jessica Palalagi
25.09.2021
The final episode in our four-part talanoa series, produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective, sees writer and poet Anne-Marie Te Whiu respond to a discussion between Ariana Davis, Jessica Palalagi and Jaimie Waititi as they explore the idea of ReMoanafication, individual and collective connections, and reclaiming narratives.
Writing
Forever Fresh Talanoa Series
By AJ Fata, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Drew Broderick, Josh Tengan
29.05.2021
The third episode of our four-part talanoa series, produced in collaboration with In*ter*is*land Collective, sees writer and poet Anne-Marie Te Whiu respond to a discussion between AJ Fata, Josh Tengan, and Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick who explore the concept of time and ancestral knowledge as a path for the historical future.