Colonialism
Writing
On truth and telling stories
By Hana Pera Aoake
04.10.2024
Aotearoa artist Hana Pera Aoake reflects on their visit to the Venice Biennale and the questions posed by its central exhibition, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. Unearthing the fraught political contexts of Venice, Aoake asks who is really made strange by the Biennale; and whether the presenting Aotearoa artists are able to retain the specificities of place within a curatorial frame that groups categories of difference under the theme of the “stranger”.
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Reuben Paterson, In The Stars I Trust
07 October —
20 October 2024
Jutta Gallery, NYC, USA
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Luke Willis Thompson, Mouvement des Malades
07 September —
15 September 2024
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 7
By Contemporary HUM
10.08.2024
Robert Jahnke (Ngāi Taharora, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rakairo o Ngāti Porou) speaks to Contemporary HUM about his work Te Wepu MMXXIII, which is featured in the 7th edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Jahnke discusses the influence of Te Wepu, the battle flag of the 19th-century Māori prophet Te Kooti, and how the work highlights a formal whakapapa (genealogy) between Te Kooti, who was not only a religious visionary but an artistic innovator in his own right, and contemporary references to the flag, including by the late sculptor and painter Paratene Matchitt.
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Emily Karaka, Ka Awatea, A New Dawn
07 September —
01 December 2024
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Talia Smith, 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
05 July —
08 September 2024
Artspace, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Greg Semu, Sacred + Forbidden
03 July —
23 September 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Jasmine Togo Brisby, It Is Not a Place
20 April —
16 June 2024
Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
Writing
Crossing Currents: Episode 2
By Contemporary HUM
29.06.2024
Contemporary HUM interviews Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui) about Wastelands (2024), his work in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Graham discusses Wastelands as a commentary on extractive attitudes to land, the logistics of exhibiting at the Venice Biennale and what it’s like to be included alongside an intergenerational selection of Māori artists, including his father, Fred Graham.
Writing
HUM live from the 2024 Venice Biennale
16.04.2024
From 16–21 April 2024, Contemporary HUM will publish live coverage, exclusive images and videos from the opening week of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Click through for coverage of the Aotearoa New Zealand artists presenting work in the curated section of the Biennale, as well as in other events held off-site.
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp: Homecoming film screening
24 June —
27 June 2024
Espace Encan, La Rochelle, France
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Yuki Kihara, Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao
29 June —
07 October 2024
National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri Canberra, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, artist talk
6.00PM — 7.00PM
04 July 2024
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
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Tamsen Hopkinson, The Wishing Well
20 June —
20 July 2024
Connors Connors, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Robert Jahnke, Te Wepu MMXXIII in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
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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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Nikau Hindin, Time Honoured Technologies panel discussion
12.45PM — 1.30PM
10 March 2024
White Bay Power Station, Sydney, Australia
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, residency
01 November —
01 December 2023
The Sointula Art Shed, Malcolm Island, Canada
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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
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.
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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Tamsen Hopkinson, James Nguyen: Open Glossary
16 September —
19 November 2023
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
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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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Yuki Kihara, 'Avant et après: Gauguin’s final words' conference
23 June —
24 June 2023
online
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
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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Simon Denny, Metaverse Landscapes
14 May —
16 July 2023
Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, 'Legacies' international tour
03 April —
01 October 2023
ADM Gallery Singapore; Stelo, Portland, USA; LUX, London; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; Storage Art Space, Bangkok
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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
