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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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Bruce Barber and Tāhū Collective, 2023 XIV Edition Florence Biennale
14 October —
22 October 2023
Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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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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.
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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.
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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.