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Moving image works by Aotearoa artists Kahurangiariki Smith, Suzanne Tamaki and Russ Flatt are currently screening at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in France, as part of Vidéo Club New Zealand, a collaboration between FRAC and Te Tuhi.
The programme includes Tamaki's CIRCUIT Matariki commission, Manu does Matariki (2022), and episodes from her Taonga Talkback TV series (2020), along with Kahurangiariki Smith's 2019 work He Tangi Aroha—Mama Don’t Cry and Russ Flatt's Te Ahua, Te Wa, Te Atea (2022).
The works presented at FRAC are an iteration of an exhibition at Te Tuhi exhibition of moving image by Māori artists exploring indigenous futures, entitled Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces. In their works, Tamaki, Smith and Flatt use a variety of media, including karaoke, photogrammetry and social networks, to explore political satire, the deterioration of landscape and access to ancestral knowledge, among other contemporary themes.
The exhibition is curated by Sandrine Honliasso for FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and on view from 11 October 2024 to 12 January 2025.
