'Crossing Currents: Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk.

Writing

Crossing Currents: Episode 4

By Contemporary HUM

13.07.2024

Architect, artist and mother Elisapeta Hinemoa Heta speaks to Contemporary HUM about her presentation The Body of Wainuiātea, which is featured alongside work by Latai Taumoepeau in Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania, an exhibition curated by Taloi Havini at TBA21–Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice. She discusses the influence of the Māori pūrākau (mythological tradition) of the atua (deity) Wainuiātea, the need to re-establish a sacred relationship to the ocean and the conversations that guided the creation of the work, including with Havini and Taumoepeau.

Tom Denize, ‘Involuntary Body’, single-channel video, mild steel, MX helmet, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist

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Tom Denize and Iann An, An obscuring of self - a veil between yours and theirs

03 April —
15 June 2024

Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, Bundoora, Australia

Exhibition detail: view of works by Fiona Connor, Francis Upritchard, and Ricky Swallow. Courtesy Fine Arts, Sydney

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Fiona Connor and Francis Upritchard, Sculpture Exhibition

13 June —
03 August 2024

Fine Arts, Sydney, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia

'Crossing Currents: Caitlin Devoy in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

Writing

Crossing Currents: Episode 3

By Contemporary HUM

06.07.2024

Contemporary HUM interviews artist Caitlin Devoy about BODYOBJECTS, her presentation in the 2024 edition of Personal Structures in Venice. Speaking to HUM in April 2024, Devoy discusses using humour as a feminist strategy to challenge the power relations encoded in gallery spaces, resulting in works that refuse disembodied objectivity in favour of tactility, subjectivity and intuition.

'Crossing Currents: Areez Katki in Venice' podcast cover. Graphic design by Emma Kaniuk

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.

Jasmine Togo-Brisby, 'Until We Runneth Over' (detail), 2024. Photo: Carl Warner

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Jasmine Togo Brisby, It Is Not a Place

20 April —
16 June 2024

Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia

Alex Chalmers, 'Untitled', 2021. Photo: Jiyoon Chung. Courtesy Sammlung Pohl

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Alex Chalmers, IM GÄSTEZIMMER ZWEI

22 April —
07 June 2024

Sammlung Pohl, Marburg, Germany

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Richard Frater, The Park as Lover

10 June —
15 September 2024

Lantz’scher Park, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice

Podcast series

Despite there being no national pavilion for Aotearoa New Zealand this year, the 60th Venice Biennale is an historic edition for Aotearoa artists. Not only are there an unprecedented number of artists from Aotearoa featured in Venice – both within the International Exhibition of the Biennale and in concurrent events taking place across the city – but it also features the most Māori artists to be included.

In Crossing Currents: Aotearoa New Zealand Artists in Venice, Contemporary HUM speaks with the artists featured in the 60th Venice Biennale and parallel events Personal Structures and Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania as they reflect on presenting in Venice during an historic year for Aotearoa art, Ngā toi Māori and Indigenous art globally.