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Curator's Talk: Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū
©Louboutin X Reihana Christian Louboutin, A Reverie 2020. Single-channel UHD video, duration 15 mins 23 secs. Installation view at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū. Courtesy of the artist and Christian Louboutin.
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Join curators Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver on a tour of Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
Māori artists embrace moving image to centre Māori histories, lived experiences and radical hope. Whether 16mm film or digital animation, 4K video or recorded on a phone, Māori moving image is a unique alignment of forms and concepts from toi ataata - visual arts, with those of ngā mahi a rēhia - the arts of performance. The exhibition ‘Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū’ champions recent moving image art made by generations of Māori artists, with several new commissions; a rich gathering of works that explore time, politics, language and place.
Come along to learn more about works from Shannon Te Ao, Luther Ashford, Jamie Berry, Robert George, Sarah Hudson, Ana Iti, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Nova Paul, Nathan Pōhio, Louise Pōtiki Bryant, Rachael Rakena, Lisa Reihana, Kahurangiariki Smith, Suzanne Tamaki, Terri Te Tau and Kauri Wharewera.
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Exhibition
Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū
16 October 2022
An exhibition championing film, animation and video art made by several generations of Māori artists.
Commentary
Te Whakawhitinga
Te Whakawhitinga is a haerenga, a journey. It is not a long film, approximately eleven minutes total, but the geography it covers stretches from Te Tai Tōkerau in the North to Ōtautahi in Te Waipounamu; from early adulthood to old age; and from the time of Te Pākanga Tuarua o te Ao, World War II, to the present. Te Whakawhitinga follows this narrative like a stone skimming across water: touching down at points, at others flying across space-time with the momentum of recall.
Interview
Looking at Forty Years of Māori Moving Image Practice
Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive is co-curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver. The following text is a conversation between the two curators around co-curating, archives and Māori moving image practice.