Maureen Lander: Flat-pack Whakapapa

Maureen Lander Kit-Set Whanaungatanga 2017. Harakeke, Teri dyes. Collection of the artist and her weaving collaborators. Image: Mark Tantrum

Maureen Lander Kit-Set Whanaungatanga 2017. Harakeke, Teri dyes. Collection of the artist and her weaving collaborators. Image: Shaun Matthews

Maureen Lander Kit-Set Whanaungatanga 2017. Harakeke, Teri dyes. Collection of the artist and her weaving collaborators. Image: Mark Tantrum

This exhibition is now closed

An installation of hand-woven harakeke speaks of the contemporary Māori experience

Operating from within Te Ao Māori, Maureen Lander’s installation speaks to the contemporary Māori experience, where genealogy, cultural values and spiritual beliefs are cloaked by the codes of modern living. Lander’s installation shares rare insight into, and encouragement towards, ways that the contemporary Māori existence might be understood and lived.

Date:
7 September – 28 October 2019
Curator:
Nathan Pōhio
Exhibition number:
1086

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Director's Foreword

Director’s Foreword

Welcome to the spring edition of Bulletin. Our downstairs touring exhibition galleries are currently alive with video and moving image art, all of it produced by Māori practitioners in the last thirty years. This exhibition, which tours to us from the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, looks to capture and collate the contribution of Māori artists to time-based art practice in this country.

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Commentary

Curating Oceania

The idea for an exhibition of Oceanic art originated from the Royal Academy itself, proposed in 2012 by its then artistic director Kathleen Soriano, an Australian. The exhibition was imagined to fit within the Academy’s occasional programme of ‘civilisation’ or ‘world art’ exhibitions, inaugurated in 1996 with the ground-breaking Africa: Art of a Continent, and followed by exhibitions such as Aztecs (2002), China (2005), Byzantium (2009) and others. These exhibitions sat among the gallery’s more usual fare of historical European, modern and contemporary art.

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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.

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Commentary

Te Āhua o te Hau ki te Papaioea

The ‘Operation 8’ anti-terror raids in October of 2007 were the culmination of a police investigation that led to the raiding of homes across New Zealand. The raids were conducted after an extended period of surveillance, which was enabled through use of the 2002 Terrorism Suppression Act. In 2013 the Independent Police Conduct Authority found that police had “unnecessarily frightened and intimidated” people during the raids.

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Notes

Māori video artists on display in Christchurch

Works by more than twenty Māori moving image artists will be on display at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in August.

Exhibition

Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive

This dynamic exhibition explores the history of Māori artists who have used animation, film and video as a medium.

Commentary

Bringing the Soul

As an eleven-year-old boy from Whāngarei, sent to live in Yaldhurst with my aunt in the late seventies, Christchurch was a culture shock. Arriving in New Zealand’s quintessential ‘English city’, I remember well the wide landscapes and manicured colonial built environment. It was very pretty but also very monocultural, with no physical evidence of current or former Māori occupation or cultural presence, or at least none that I could appreciate at that time.

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