Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū

Ana Iti Trapped in a kiss (detail) 2021. Single-channel HD video, colour, sound, duration 9 mins 37 secs. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū

©Louboutin X Reihana Christian Louboutin, A Reverie 2020. Single-channel UHD video, duration 15 mins 23 secs. Courtesy of the artist and Christian Louboutin.

Robert George Horohoro 2018. 5-channel HD video, duration 3 mins 5 secs. Courtesy of the artist.

Louise Pōtiki Bryant Te Taki o te Ua/ The Sound of Rain 2022. 3-channel HD video, duration 28 mins. Courtesy of the artists.

Rachael Rakena, Paulette Tamati-Ellifee and Komene Cassidy Ko te wai he wai ora 2021. 16-channel video installation, duration 26 mins. Courtesy of the artists, Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Paemanu: Ngāi Tahu Contemporary Visual Arts.

Jeremy Leatinu’u Te Whakawhitinga (still) 2022. Single-channel 16mm film transferred to digital HD video. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2022.

Shannon Te Ao Ia rā, ia rā (rere runga, rere raro) (still) 2021. 3-channel 4K video, black and white, sound; 6 min, 20 sec. Featuring Zen Te Hira, Heremaia Tapiata Bright and Kurt Komene; photography by Harry Culy; production by Michael Bridgman. With Thanks to Kate Te Ao, Shaun Waugh, Creative New Zealand and Whiti o Rehua School of Art Massey University.

Installation view.

Karaoke booth.

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An exhibition championing film, animation and video art made by several generations of Māori artists.

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. Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū celebrates recent moving image art, with several new commissions. Co-curated by Bridget Reweti and Melanie Oliver, this exhibition is a rich gathering of works that explore time, politics, language and place. And karaoke!

Featuring Luther Ashford, Jamie Berry, Robert George, Sarah Hudson, Ana Iti, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Nova Paul, Nathan Pōhio, Louise Potiki-Bryant, Rachael Rakena, Lisa Reihana, Kahurangiariki Smith, Suzanne Tamaki, Shannon Te Ao, Terri Te Tau, Kauri Wharewera.

Includes a partnership project between Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and The Dowse Art Museum.

Date:
4 June – 16 October 2022
Location:
Borg Henry Gallery Touring Gallery B Touring Gallery C
Curator:
Melanie Oliver
Exhibition number:
1130

Collection works in this exhibition

3 items

Te Whakawhitinga

Jeremy Leatinu'u

Trapped in a kiss

Ana Iti

Spectre Echo Landfall

Nathan Pōhio

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Exhibition

Bridget Reweti: Ziarah

23 October 2023

Ziarah is an Arabic word that refers to an ancestral or spiritual pilgrimage to a gravesite. Developed while artist Bridget Reweti was on residency in the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta, this work traces her attempt to find the unmarked graves of navigator Tupaia and his nephew and apprentice Taiata on nearby Damar Besar Island.

Director's Foreword

It’s been great to watch our visitors returning to the building over the past weeks despite the ongoing effects of Covid-19. This issue is coming to you regretfully late due to the pandemic; it’s one of a few changes to our published schedules as we find our feet again. I urge you to keep in touch via our website and social media for updates on what’s happening as we return to our full and vibrant programme of exhibitions and events.

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Commentary

Memory Pictures

… it suits me to take pictures on celluloid that were formerly pictures of the mind, memory pictures, pictures of the imagination …

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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.

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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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Interview

A Torch and a Light

Shannon Te Ao is an artist of Ngāti Tūwharetoa descent. In 2016 Te Ao won the Walters Prize for his works, two shoots that stretch far out (2013–14) and okea ururoatia (never say die) (2016). Working in video and other performative practices Te Ao investigates the implications of various social and linguistic modes. Assistant curator Nathan Pohio, himself a nominee for the 2016 Walters Prize, discussed working practice with Te Ao in December 2016.

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Article

Going online

I’ve never actually seen the Mona Lisa, and it’s a fair bet that most people reading this article haven’t either. Yet, according to Wikipedia, the painting is ‘the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. So how to account for the fame of an artwork we haven’t seen? And what have reproductions of Da Vinci’s sixteenth-century portrait got to teach us about time-based art and the online environment in 2015?

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