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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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Sam Hamilton with Clara Chon, Dr. Tru Paraha, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Rhonda Tibble, Vaimaila Urale, Te Moana Meridian
25 August —
07 October 2023
Converge 45 at Oregon Contemporary, Portland, USA
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Angela Tiatia, The Dark Current
05 September —
12 November 2023
ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
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Angela Tiatia, The Pearl, in Illuminate Adelaide
07 July —
23 July 2023
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Pelenakeke Brown, Don't mind if I do
07 July 2023 —
07 July 2024
MoCA Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
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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Yuki Kihara, 'Avant et après: Gauguin’s final words' conference
23 June —
24 June 2023
online
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Angela Tiatia, George Nuku, Louisa Humphrey and Yuki Kihara, Rising Tide: Art and Environment in Oceania
12 August 2023 —
14 April 2024
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
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Yuki Kihara, Powerhouse Late x Vivid Ideas: Paradise Fair
15 June 2023
Powerhouse Ultimo, 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
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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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Ilke Gers and Tanu Gago, Into Nature: Time Horizons
29 July —
29 October 2023
various venues around Drenthe, the Netherlands
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Benjamin Work, Tautahi – In the Face of Adversity
09 May —
30 May 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Sione Tuívailala Monū, Queer Encounters
17 February —
05 March 2023
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
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Aloali'i Tapu, TanzHochDrei, Hamburg and Pacific Dance Festival 2023
15 March —
23 April 2023
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany and online
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Pati Tyrell, 'Tulouna le Lagi' film screening at 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
26 April —
01 May 2023
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
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In*ter*is*land Collective, Whenua: Of soil and blood
21 February —
12 March 2023
Burgh House, London, UK
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Christopher Ulutupu, Hidden Amongst Clouds in 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
03 March —
05 March 2023
Ravensdowne Barracks, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
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Christopher Ulutupu, The Pleasures of Unbelonging in 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
04 March 2023
Maltings Henry Travers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
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.
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Teleise Lēsa, Onesian, Street Rat, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, CTRL+ALT+DEL: RECLAIM
21 January —
04 February 2023
Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp
24 March —
01 December 2023
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
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Dr Kirsten Lyttle, TarraWarra Biennial 2023: ua usiusi faʻavaʻasavili
01 April —
16 July 2023
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Wurundjeri Country, Healesville, Australia
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.
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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 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.
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An interview with Yuki Kihara
By Contemporary HUM
24.05.2022
In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the artist representing Aotearoa, Yuki Kihara, to discuss her exhibition Paradise Camp, and what it means to bring a Pasifika, Fa'afafine voice to the international audience of this major event.
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An interview with the curators of 'Paradise Camp'
By Contemporary HUM, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Natalie King
24.05.2022
In the opening week of the 2022 Biennale di Venezia, HUM sat down with the Aotearoa New Zealand pavilion’s Curator, Natalie King, and Assistant Pasifika Curator Ioana-Gordon Smith, to talk about bringing Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp to Venice.