Pacific
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.
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Jasmine Togo Brisby, It Is Not a Place
20 April —
16 June 2024
Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
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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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Lisa Reihana, GLISTEN
14 June 2024 —
30 March 2025
National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
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Art Summit 2024
13 June —
15 June 2024
various locations in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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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
Writing
Living Things
16.03.2024
In this short piece, originally put together as a HUMcard mailout for Contemporary HUM's Publishers Circle, Aotearoa-based artist Yukari Kaihori reflects on her two-week residency at Ma Umi Residencies on Ishigaki Island, Japan. The impacts of climate change and marine debris on the subtropical island offer the context for a meditation on the ecological entanglements between objects, animals, and places.
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Andy Leleisi’uao, Archipelago Area 51
28 May —
27 July 2024
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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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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Elisapeta Hinemona Heta, Re-Stor(y)ing Oceania
23 March —
13 October 2024
Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Asia TOPA Radar
6.30PM — 9.00PM
27 March 2024
The Substation, Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Project Banaba
04 November 2023 —
19 February 2024
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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PHOTO 2024: International Festival of Photography
01 March —
24 March 2024
various venues across Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Yuki Kihara, Factory of Tomorrow
16 March —
14 July 2024
Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong
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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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Yuki Kihara, Staging Oneself
24 February —
19 May 2024
Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Australia
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24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
09 March —
10 June 2024
six venues across Sydney, Australia
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Kalisolaite 'Uhila, ISCP residency
01 January —
31 March 2024
ISCP, New York, USA
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Yuki Kihara, Paradise Camp
01 June 2024 —
31 January 2025
Saletoga Sands Resort, Upolu Island, Sāmoa
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FAFSWAG Arts Collective, Queer PHOTO: Alteration
27 January —
24 March 2024
The Substation, Melbourne, Australia
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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
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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
Project
Championing Aotearoa New Zealand women artists
Partnership
Contemporary HUM is excited to launch our partnership with AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. The Paris-based non-profit organisation, founded in 2014, focuses on the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century. During our partnership with AWARE we have worked on including more Aotearoa New Zealand women artists in their online profiles. AWARE is a great resource for championing women artists and we’re thrilled to be working with them. A huge thanks to Creative New Zealand for making this partnership possible.
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Ta Mataora
06 November —
23 December 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Clay Te Pai, Indigenous Artists Exchange
19 October —
24 October 2023
Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji
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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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
