Over the past decade, Ōtautahi Christchurch has been a city in rebuild. As the exhibition Memory / Lapse comes to a close, five arts practitioners discuss the role of memory in creating our individual and collective futures.
Date: Friday 16 May 2025, 5.30pm
Where: Cloisters Studio, Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, Ōtautahi Christchurch
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua. I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past.
What is memory? Where does it live? Whose memories are recalled and whose are forgotten? How should our future build on our past?
Join Mark Williams (Director, CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image), Jamie Hanton (Community Arts Adviser, Christchurch City Council), Juanita Hepi (multidisciplinary storyteller, producer, director, researcher, and writer), Stephanie Oberg (art historian, writer, poet, and curator) and Dr Reuben Woods (Creative Director, Watch This Space) as they discuss these questions and the works in Memory / Lapse, a programme of artists' moving image from Aotearoa, Malaysia, and Thailand that explores the space between memory and oblivion.
