Black and white footage of a bird flying

Installation view of Halo (2010) Kim Pieters, digital video, audio by Edie Stevens, in the exhibition What is a life? Kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh

CIRCUIT Cast #12

Kim Pieters, Terri Te Tau, Tonga ‘i Onopooni

Hosted by Mark Amery · July 16, 2014

A panel discussion about Tonga ‘i Onopooni, a walk through Kim Pieters' exhibition What is a life?, and a chat to Terri Te Tau.

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This CIRCUIT Cast Mark Amery joins Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh at the Tongan contemporary survey Tonga ‘i Onopooni at Pātaka. In Part 2 Kim Pieters walks Mark through her survey What is a life? at the Adam Art Gallery. In part 3, in mid-install of her group show with the Mata Aho collective Kaokao, Terri Te Tau discusses sending her installation work Unregistered and Unwarranted to Eyebeam in New York.

Works discussed in this episode

halo
Kim Pieters

halo (2010)

Shot in black and white, a cloudy sky against which a seagull, wings outstretched, moves in slow motion across the frame.

halo
In the back seat of a CGI car, a purple digital streetscape passes by outside.
Terri Te Tau

Unwarranted and Unregistered #2 (2013)

Part of a research project that looks at the expansion of surveillance culture and the social effects of these changes on communities.

Unwarranted and Unregistered #2
At night people of all ages get off a small boat carrying luggage, while others wait to get on.
Lucy Aukafolau

Dock (from Invisible Territories) (2013)

Footage taken during Aukafolau’s first trip to Tonga with her father and uncle to their homeland in ‘O‘ua Ha‘apai.

Dock (from Invisible Territories)
A large crowd of people riot on a street in Tonga, there is a building afire in the distance.
Vea Mafile`o

Who will douse the kingdom? (riot excerpt) (2007)

Footage of the 2006 Tongan riots showing looting, burning shops and chaos in the streets.

Who will douse the kingdom? (riot excerpt)

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