Rachael Rakena Rerehiko 2003. Multi-projection video environment (DVD Projections (2) and soundtrack). Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, purchased 2004
This exhibition is now closed
An immersive video installation by Kāi Tahu artist Rachael Rakena.
Rachael Rakena’s sensual video installation considers how the arrival of the internet effected change for Māori. Rerehiko suspends performers in a watery underworld, where haka, waiata and taiaha merge with streams of email, encouraging us to contemplate the world anew.
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Date:
25 November 2017 – 11 March 2018 -
Curator:
Nathan Pōhio -
Exhibition number:
1051
Related reading: Video art
Director's Foreword
Director's Foreword
As I write this, I’m still smiling with pleasure and pride at the huge success of the Gallery Foundation’s fundraising drive for our own work by Ron Mueck. Wonderful in its own right, it’s amazing to finish the 2017 calendar year knowing a sculpture by Mueck is now on its way to join the other four ‘great works’ for Christchurch.
Notes
A Quick Q&A with James Oram
Over lockdown, Ōtautahi artist James Oram made a new work for our online exhibition Spheres: An Online Video Project. I asked him a few questions about the making of the work, which is up on our website until the end of October.
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