Exhibitions
Events
On display
The Flight of Te Hookioi
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Koha / Donation
In 1859, Tainui men Wiremu Toetoe and Hemara Te Rerehau took a trip on the Viennese scientific frigate Novara and returned to New Zealand with a gift from the Emperor of Austria — a printing press.
This documentary retraces these men’s historic voyage and its impact on New Zealand.
Directed by Tearapa Kahi, 2009.
57 mins.
Courtesy of Canterbury Film Society www.facebook.com/CanterburyFilmSociety/
Related reading: Maori
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.
Event
Shannon Te Ao
Artist Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) will talk about his work Untitled (Malady) in Māori Moving Image: An Open Archive, and consider recent work that in various ways resonates with a conception of time found in the whakatauki Ka mua, ka muri, ‘walking backwards into the future’.
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.
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.
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
Maureen Lander: Flat-pack Whakapapa
An installation of hand-woven harakeke speaks of the contemporary Māori experience
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.
Exhibition
The Devil’s Blind Spot: Recent Strategies in New Zealand Photography
Recent photography by an emerging generation of New Zealand artists.
Exhibition
Ship Songs
A small but poetic exhibition looking at early European and Māori representations of seafaring vessels, with the Charlotte Jane as a focal point.
Exhibition
Kōwhaiwhai
Five significant works of art that look to traditional Māori architecture to inform modernist and contemporary Māori art practice.
Exhibition
He Rau Maharataka Whenua: A Memory of Land
Canterbury modernist landscape painting from the collections of Te Puna o Waiwhetū Christchurch Art Gallery, poignantly revised from within a Kāi Tahu perspective