Events At CGW
EVENTS:
Saturday 27 October 2PM: THE FLUIDITY OF
IDENTITY
Dunedin artist Rachael Rakena (Ngai Tahu, Ngä
Puhi, Ngäti Päkehä) discusses
her video work,
entitled...as an individual and not under the name of
Ngai
Tahu.
Saturday 27 October 6PM: TÜRANGA
A
dance/video installation performance created and performed
by Louise
Bryant and Techno Mäori artist Rachael Rakena.
Statement by Rachel Rakena:
I have continued to use
images of swimmers immersed in water with no
references
to land to explore the idea of shifting identities; of
the
freedom that might exist in an undefined space with
no place to stand, no
türanga, and maybe no
responsibilities. This has been mixed with emails,
a
relatively new forum for körero amongst the iwi. The
emails used in this
work establish and resolve a
miscommunication highlighting the role and
place of
individual versus iwi in representation.
One of our key
points of reference in identity is the whenua,
our
türangawaewae. By taking this reference away I am
exploring new places that
we might identify with and
relate to or from.
Emails have become a new meeting
place for us and our communities, the
körero that takes
place via email doesn't require a geographical place,
yet
'sent to' or 'cc'd' establishes communities.
Rachael Rakena, September 2001
EXHIBITIONS:
TECHNO MAORI: MAORI ART IN THE DIGITAL AGE / Until 2 Dec
2001
City Gallery Wellington & Pataka Porirua Museum of
arts and cultures
This exhibition brings together work by
a selection of contemporary Maori
artists, expressing the
diverse ways in which they are utilising or inspired
by
digital technology. Presented at CGW and Pataka, with an
accompanying
CD-ROM ($15 from both venues).
TOYO ITO:
BLURRING ARCHITECTURE / Until 2 Dec
Blurring
Architecture presents work by revolutionary Japanese
architect Toyo
Ito who since the mid-1970s has become one
of the world's most innovative
and influential
architects. Animated computer graphics &
video-installations
give an insight into Ito's work.
*
LAST DAYS: BEHIND THE CURTAIN - PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SEX
INDUSTRY BY ANS
WESTRA / Until 28 Oct
Ans Westra is
one of New Zealand's most significant
documentary
photographers. This series of 38 black and
white photographs depicts sex
workers in massage
parlours, strip-clubs and a brothel as the women wait
for
clients, dress, socialise or strip.
* LAST DAYS: A
TOURIST IN PARADISE LOST: THE ART OF MICHAEL ILLINGWORTH
/
Until 28 Oct 2001
GALLERY SEVEN (10,000 METRES) -
MADDIE LEACH / 6 Oct - 4 Nov
Michael Hirschfeld Gallery
With this site-specific installation Maddie Leach
continues her
investigation into spaces which house
idleness, moments of leisure which are
imbued with
silence and stillness. Gallery Seven explores the activity
of
ice-skating, incorporating life-size video projections
of a lone circling
ice-skater and sealing off the gallery
space to evoke an atmosphere of
structured idleness.
ENDS