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Alena Kavka

Alena Kavka is a writer based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland

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    An artificially made waterway bisects a green field.

    To See Obliquely: Kate van der Drift’s Listening to a Wet Land

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    By Alena Kavka · February 1, 2023

    "The reality of being in this country as descendants of settlers is something that is more akin to the reality of swamplands" — Alena Kavka writes on Kate van der Drift's show at Pah Homestead

    Listening to a Wet Land

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