Podcasts about te tuhi

Five new moving image works have launched as part of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, Te Tuhi's contribution to the global World Weather Network. Curated by Janine Randerson, the screening programme features the five latest sound and video commissions created by three artists: Jae Hoon Lee, Riki Pirihi, and Tia Bennett.  One of the projects, Tūhononga (Cluster and Connection) Parts I and II by Tia Barrett (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Te Rapuwai, Waitaha, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tamainupō) explores the pūrākau (stories) from our past which we can draw on to benefit the future of our whenua.  Sofia spoke to Tia about Tūhononga (Cluster and Connection) as well as Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear in general.

Today on a rainy Various Artists: Andrea Gardner is a Whangārei-based artist. The Arts House Trust are currently hosting her exhibition When Mauve Does the Tango in association with the Auckland Festival of Photography. The exhibition is an exploration of staged photography, presenting subjects in forms of disguise. Beth had a kōrero with Andrea about it. cloud ribbon is a new exhibition by Kathryn Tsui (TEE-EW) at Object Space. In beaded compositions and woven wall-hangings, cloud ribbon explores Kathryn's own cultural heritage and craft practice by reflecting on intersections of Asian and European cultural histories. Sofia spoke with Kathryn about the show. Five new moving image works have launched as part of Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, Te Tuhi's contribution to the global World Weather Network.Sofia spoke to Tia about Tūhononga (Cluster and Connection) as well as Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear in general.  Plus, a bit of Angel Olsen, Elliott Smith and Soccer Mommy to soundtrack your rainy arvo. Does it get better?!

E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today! Firstly, we have Cameron McCurdy in the studio to chat about neglect comics, their new archive of Aotearoa comics.  Liam also speaks to Creative New Zealand's Gretchen La Roche about their new funding programmes.  Frances speaks to curator Felixe Laing about Food Futures, a pop-up art restaurant, exploring the future of our food at Te Tuhi's Parnell Project Space, as well as talking with with Ruth Buchanan and Prairie Hartchard-McGill about Sunlighting opening at Artspace.  And, to round off the show, we will take you through the art guide for Tāmaki Makarau this week.

Coming up on the 19th of August, Te Tuhi will be opening up six new exhibitions in the gallery space in Pakuranga. The works all deal with conversations around migration, with half of the artists being from Aotearoa and others being from various parts of Asia and reflecting on the human perception of distance.  For a quick runthrough of each of the exhibitions, Liam had a yarn with Te Tuhi's Communications and Programme Coordinator Alena Kavka about what's coming  up.  

Te Tuhi is one of Auckland's prominent art galleries, and there's something particularly cool about its cafe.  It's providing on the job training to people with intellectual disabilities. It's thought to be the first of its kind in New Zealand. We're joined by Dr Katrina Phillips - a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Auckland, where her students are helping design the training programme for the cafe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A series called New Kid in Town - Tiktok-type videos shot around Nelson's tourism hotspots - is just one of the projects that video artist Christopher Ulutupu has roped in his extended family to create with him. Now several of these works are currently on show or about to go up in five art galleries. Of Samoan, Niuean and German descent, Chris creates work that makes us think about Pacific stereotypes and the impact of colonisation. His day job sees him advocating for the arts as a way of supporting prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration. Lynn Freeman asks Chris Ulutupu why he's so keen to involve his family in his videos. The New Kid in Town series is on at Tautai, and also at Te Tuhi. Both galleries are in Auckland.

A Very Different World is a new exhibition at Te Tuhi in Auckland promising to offer a much-needed glimmer of hope for the future, while at the same time looking at the unprecedented difficulties we face due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The curator is Ngahiraka Mason,.

Mana wāhine me te wai is an artist panel discussion featuring Alex Monteith, Natalie Robertson, Kahurangiariki Smith and Aroha Yates-Smith. The group discuss the process and kaupapa behind 'Te rerenga pōuri o nga parawhenua ki Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa', 2019,a large-scale video installation part of Te Tuhi's group exhibition Moana Don’t Cry. The work responds to the mass erosion caused over the past century at Waiorongomai. The artists follow the water flow from mist, rains and streams down the river to the moana. In this discussion, the artists and scholars trace the non-visible threads that bind the work together and significance of Parawhenuamea, the atua (deity) of alluvial waters, in the collaborative work, 'He Tangi Aroha—Mama Don’t Cry', 2019, by Smith and Yates-Smith. Renowned for her work on the Māori divine feminine, Aroha Yates-Smith discusses Parawhenuamea, and her connection to Tangaroa and Hinemoana of the ocean. About the speakers Alex Monteith (b. Belfast, Ireland. Resides Te Piha, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist and senior lecturer at the Elam School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, Aotearoa. Her participatory and video works often explore the political dimensions of culture engaged in turmoil over land ownership, history and occupation. Natalie Robertson (Ngāti Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh, b. Kawerau, Aotearoa New Zealand) is an artist and Senior Lecturer at AUT University, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Robertson’s research and artistic practice draws on historic archives and Ngāti Porou oral customs, by exploring Māori knowledge practices, environmental issues and cultural landscapes, to engage relationships to place. He uri tēnei nō ngā iwi i heke mai ai i runga i ngā waka o Te Arawa, o Tainui, o Takitimu, o Horouta, o Mataatua me ngā iwi hoki i takea mai nei i te whenua nei, i te Ūkaipō, i ngā whenua o Uropi hoki. Aroha Yates-Smith was raised in Rotorua and lives in Kirikiriroa (Hamilton). She was Professor and Dean of Te Pua Wānanga ki te Ao, School of Māori and Pacific Development, at the University of Waikato. Her PhD thesis, entitled Hine! E Hine!: Rediscovering the Feminine in Māori Spirituality, focuses on the role of atua wāhine in Māori cosmology and the marginalisation of the Māori feminine in ethnographic writings and the modern colonised Māori community. Kahurangiariki Smith’s principal focus is on mana wāhine and storytelling, which inform her art and video game development practices. Kahurangiariki’s artworks often employ digital formats, a reflection of the media we engage with, in person and online—gifs, games and karaoke. Image caption: Graeme Atkins, Alex Monteith, Natalie Robertson, with work by Kahurangiariki Smith and Aroha Yates-Smith, Te rerenga pōuri o nga parawhenua ki Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, 2019 (install view). Multi-channel video installation. Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland, with support from Auckland University of Technology and University of Auckland. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Gayle Chong Kwan's immersive installation Wastescape, 2019, weaves thousands of milk bottles into a mesmerising image that reflects our consumer habits, particularly of plastic used by the dairy industry in New Zealand. Exploring the environmental impact of excessive waste, Chong Kwan, alongside fresh water scientist Mike Joy and artist Alex Monteith, discuss the role of artists in building awareness of human responsibility in the pollution of our planet. The discussion will tease out the beauty and brutal reality of an otherworldly landscape made of waste. Wastescape is commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland, in partnership with art and environmental organisation Invisible Dust, UK, and the Humber Museums Partnership, UK.

Listen to artists Christina Pataialii, Deborah Rundle, Shannon Novak and Jeff Nusz in conversation with Te Tuhi Artistic Director Gabriela Salgado, 1 December 2018. The artists discuss the development of their new exhibitions at Te Tuhi, alongside the main lines of research that inform their practice. The kōrero is concluded with a Q&A with audience members. About the artists Christina Pataialii’s recent paintings address objective and subjective cultural narratives that focus on more recent global shifts towards cultural and national redefinition, the rise of Western nationalist ideologies and current fixations on regression to a ‘golden era,’ contemplating the concept of a shared national identity. Pataialii graduated with a BFA (2015) and an MFA (2018) from Whitecliffe College of Arts and design. Recent exhibitions include Debt, RM Gallery, 2018;Thoughts and Feelings, mother?, 2018; Projects, Auckland Art fair, 2018; Never an Answer, The Vivian, 2018; Slow Jamz Till Midnight, Blue Oyster Project Space, 2017; The Tomorrow People, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, 2017. Deborah Rundle is an artist living and working in Tāmaki Makaurau. Principally utilising text, she investigates the ways in which power plays out in the social and political domain in order to muse on possibilities for change. Frequently calling up the past, her artworks engage in both a critique of the present, and a lament for the failure of a future once promised. Recent exhibitions include Hybrid Spring, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, 2018; March Mostra, BSR Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2018; The Tomorrow People, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Wellington, 2017; DOWN TIME, Play_station Gallery, Wellington, 2017 New Zealand artist Shannon Novak works with sound and explores contemporary gay issues. He creates compositions for objects, locations, and people much as musicians might compose for/about places, persons, or experiences with emotional resonance for them. Trained initially as a pianist, his practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and installation, with a focus on using geometric forms to explore and render his understanding of the interrelationships between sound, colour, form, time, space, and social context. He also examines the ways in which the plurality and tensions of gay desire muddy and morph geometrical purity and idealism. Jeffrey Nusz is an interactive artist based in Auckland. His installations and online pieces attempt to offer new perspectives on complex and invisible phenomenon through playful interaction. Nusz enjoys collaborations as a way of exploring the creative process of other artists and discovering places neither could reach alone. In 2010, he co-founded Screens, an online gallery for interactive art, which among other work, featured his collaborations with John Ward Knox, Seung Yul Oh and Jae Hoon Lee. As creative lead of the Google Data Arts Team in San Francisco from 2014-2017 he created interactive work with international artists for a global audience. Image: Deborah Rundle Auspices 1943-, 2018 (still) looped digital animation, 15’00” courtesy of the artist

Bringing together a range of practicing artists, academics and researchers, this roundtable discussion explores issues of precarious citizenship, temporary labour and refugee resettlement in Aotearoa. The discussion brings elements of the exhibition 'I Swear' by Bruce Barber at Te Tuhi (13 May - 29 October 2017) into conversation with recent local and global political events and explore their impact upon the colonial legacy of Aotearoa and the Pacific. PANELLISTS Bruce Barber Professor Bruce Barber PhD is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural historian and curator, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he teaches courses in Media Arts, Art History and Contemporary Studies at NSCAD University. His art practice has been exhibited internationally and is documented in the publications Reading Rooms and Bruce Barber Work 1970-2008 He is the editor of Essays on Performance and Cultural Politicization and of Conceptual Art: the NSCAD Connection 1967-1973. He is co-editor, with Serge Guilbaut and John O'Brian of Voices of Fire: Art Rage, Power, and the State. Editor of Conde + Beveridge: Class Works (2008); author of Performance [Performance] and Performers: Essays and Conversations (2 volumes) edited by Marc Léger (2008), Trans/Actions: Art, Film and Death (2008) and Littoral Art and Communicative Action (2013). www.brucebarber.ca Pauline Gardiner Barber (chair) Professor of Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, Canada. Migration specialist working on Philippine global migration. Her most recent project explores the transnational effects of recent major changes to Canada’s “just-in-time” immigration system. Arama Rata (Ngāti Maniapoto, Taranaki, and Ngāruahine) After completing a PhD in Psychology, she lectured in Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. Now at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, she has research projects into a variety of Māori issues, including attitudes towards immigration and political participation. Dr Rata is also the Māori spokesperson for MARRC (Migrants and Refugee Rights Campaign). Andrea Merino-Ortiz MA anthropology student interested in the effects of New Zealand’s heavy reliance on volunteers in the resettlement of Columbian refugees. She explores how volunteers affect resettlement, and how refugees engage with volunteer-based assistance in the process of resettlement. Mua Strickson-Pua Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua is a Samoan-Chinese poet born in Aotearoa. He is a Presbyterian minister and community work chaplain practitioner of P.A.T.H. Pasifika Arts for Therapy and Healing at Tagata Pasifika Resources Development Trust serving Pacific nations communities in Auckland for the last ten years. He is also the co-founder of Street Poets Black.

"How does entanglement in the technical circuits of ‘progress’ shape not just dreams, but the capacity to dream?" In this pod guests Judy Darragh and Scott Hamilton join Mark Amery to discuss Dream Dialects, an exhibition by British artist Jem Noble recently installed at Te Tuhi, Auckland, which responds to the New Zealand film Sleeping Dogs (1977), directed by Roger Donaldson, and to the novel Smith’s Dream (1971), by C. K. Stead, on which the film is based. Both the novel and film tell a fictional tale of an insidious authoritarian power supplanting liberal democracy under familiar mantras of economic crisis and national security. Dream Dialects takes the contemporary resonance of this story as a starting point to consider the media through which narratives circulate and how they affect the nature of subjectivity and its capacity for political action.

Sasha Huber is a visual artist of Swiss-Haitian heritage. Her work is primarily concerned with the politics of memory and belonging, particularly in relation to colonial residue left in the environment. In 2007, Huber joined the transatlantic committee Demounting Louis Agassiz, initiated by the Swiss historian and political activist Hans Fässler. This long-term project has been concerned with unearthing and redressing the little-known history and cultural legacies of the Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), an influential proponent of scientific racism who advocated for segregation and “racial hygiene.” Part of the Demounting Louis Agassiz project was included in the 2016 Te Tuhi exhibition Share/Cheat/Unite. An exhibition in three parts, the show delves into the human psyche to consider how altruism, cheating and group formation appear to play a key role in shaping society, but not necessarily in the way we might assume. http://tetuhi.org.nz/whats-on/exhibitiondetails.php?id=171 This talk was presented in partnership with Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.

Can an image plane be traversed like the threshold of a building, moving from inside to outside and back again? And if so, what are the effects of this movement? Have our bodies become so used to crossing the image plane that they accept and absorb the shrapnel of this collision? What does this kind of co-existence with images mean for our social relations? Mark Amery talks to Andrew Kennedy, curator of The Non-Living Agent, an installation at Te Tuhi from 11 June 2016 - 24 July 2016 featuring work by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Fr), Dorota Broda (NZ), James Richards (UK), Sorawit Songsataya (NZ). Image: Sorawit Songsataya, Bronies (2016), Animation 3.13 min, 3D printed vases, images printed on steel commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland Photo by Sam Hartnett