Christopher Ulutupu
Christopher Ulutupu is an artist of Samoan/Niuean/German descent currently residing in Wellington.
Christopher Ulutupu’s video/performance art practice explores ongoing themes around landscape, photography, and the construction of colonial narratives. Responding to early 1900’s landscape photography and "postcard" tourism, his earlier work has looked at depictions of Pacific brown people, disseminated throughout the western world: images of Pacific people sitting under coconut trees made available for European consumption. His practice seeks to re-contextualise these stereotypes and re-imagine them through video and performance, offering new ways of exploring the effects of colonisation and diaspora.
— Heather Galbraith, SCAPE
Christopher Ulutupu on CIRCUIT · 9 works
Do you still need me (2017)
A woman and man adopt performative poses in a beach side landscape; karaoke sessions take place in a forest and at the beach.
Into The Arms of My Colonizer (2016)
The hyphen space of indigene/coloniser as a performative space of exploration, collaboration, and collage.
Writing & podcasts featuring Christopher Ulutupu
Christopher Ulutupu
Christopher Ulutupu
In this pod, host Robbie Handcock speaks to artist Christopher Ulutupu about his production process, which draws on the visual sheen of commercial film-making, but takes a sharp turn to embrace improvisation and collaboration with friends and family.
Christopher Ulutupu's The Romantic Picturesque
Christopher Ulutupu's The Romantic Picturesque
The Romantic Picturesque presents the final installment of a 3-part series that follows "the thread of a romantic relationship between indigenous and coloniser."