Heritage
Project
Vidéo Club New Zealand, Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces
Partnership
For the second international edition of “Vidéo Club”, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France joins forces with Te Tuhi in Aotearoa New Zealand in an exchange initiated by curator Marie Griffay and supported by Contemporary HUM.
In this exchange, FRAC presents works by three Māori moving image artists, Russ Flatt, Kahurangiariki Smith and Suzanne Tamaki, taken from Te Tuhi’s 2024 exhibition Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces. These works use a variety of subject matter, including karaoke, photogrammetry and social networks, to explore Indigenous spaces and possibilities that have yet to see the light of day. Aotearoa audiences can then see works by French artists Anouk Nier-Nantes, Émilie Pierson and Marina Smorodinova, at Te Tuhi in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Writing
And I dance into the future with the past, as a bird
By Haruko Kumakura
27.12.2024
Writing on Aotearoa New Zealand’s presentation at the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Shannon Te Ao’s Ia rā, ia rā (rere runga, rere raro) - Everyday (I fly high, I fly low) (2021), Haruko Kumakura argues that the work brings into focus what the thematic exhibition of the Biennale misses: a weaving together of the voices of the past, present and future appropriate both to the political context of its exhibition and the social and ecological urgencies of our time.
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Yukari 海堀 Kaihori, KAIR Artist Residence 2024 Exhibition and Art Tour
26 October —
10 November 2024
Kamiyama-cho Noson Kankyo Kaizen Center, Kamiyama, Japan
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Sylvia Marsters, E Kura Reitumanava no Rarotonga (Love Letters for Rarotonga)
08 October —
02 November 2024
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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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Talia Smith, 2024 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
05 July —
08 September 2024
Artspace, 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 1
By Contemporary HUM
22.06.2024
Aotearoa New Zealand artist Areez Katki speaks to HUM about The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House, his presentation in the 7th edition of Personal Structures. Katki discusses the processes and politics of exhibiting in Personal Structures and the two series he produced for the exhibition, which take migrant and queer positionalities as points from which to restore notions of pedagogy and learning from patriarchal, religious dictates to an affectual, instinctual realm of care.
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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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Hoʻoulu Lāhui: Regenerating Oceania: 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture
06 June —
16 June 2024
Hawaiʻi Convention Center and various locations in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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Eddie Elliott, SUARA / ORO RUA
24 May —
26 May 2024
Singtel Waterfront Theatre, Singapore
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Areez Katki, The Rhapsode’s Tools Will Build the Rhapsode’s House in Personal Structures
20 April —
24 November 2024
Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
Writing
“To see us on our best day.”
By Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak
15.12.2023
Offering a glimpse at the wide range of emotions and encounters that Aotearoa-based artist Maungarongo Te Kawa and Northern Sámi activist Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak share in their multifaceted experiences at different edges of the globe, this conversation takes Te Kawa’s recent residency and touring exhibition in Norway and Sámi territories as a departure point.
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Yuki Kihara, Project Banaba
04 November 2023 —
19 February 2024
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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Yuki Kihara, Art Basel Conversation
12.30PM — 1.30PM
30 March 2024
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
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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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Ruth Watson, FLASHBACK
17 November —
15 December 2023
GUSTAV, Herne, Germany
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The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania
24 October 2023 —
15 January 2024
National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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
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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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Tamsen Hopkinson, James Nguyen: Open Glossary
16 September —
19 November 2023
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
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Rozana Lee, The Zhelezka Project
19 August —
03 September 2023
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
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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
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Philip Trusttum, Mussorgorsky, Music and Myself
02 June —
21 August 2023
The Nomadic Art Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
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Jade Hadfield, MIRROR: New views on photography
19 May 2023 —
28 January 2024
State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
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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
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
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.