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Tanya Ruka

Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka is an artist and CIRCUIT's Kaitiaki Kiriata, a curatorial position which supports a Māori curator to present artists' video in contexts framed by Te Ao Māori.

    Tanya Ruka on CIRCUIT

    A view of water is overlaid with a bilingual subtitle in te reo and English, this reads 'Tectonic plates pushed inside Mother Earth'

    Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa

    Essay
    By Tanya Ruka · December 17, 2024

    In the first of three essays, CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka explores the guiding mātauranga of Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists.

    Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau

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