Current ExhibitionsNgā Arotakenga o te Wā

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A young Pasifika woman leans steadfastly against the bonnet of a boy racer style car, which has speakers mounted on the roof

Legacies

ExhibitionArotakenga
ADM Gallery (Singapore); Stelo (Portland USA); LUX (UK); Adam Art Gallery (Wellington, NZ); Storage (Bangkok, Thailand) · Various Dates 2023

Five short films for cinema by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Solomona-Tyrell, Sriwhana Spong

Legacies
Otherwise-image-worlds

Otherwise-image-worlds

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Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery · June 3, 2022 - September 3, 2022

An exhibition of new moving image commissions by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Juliet Carpenter, Tanu Gago, Ary Jansen, and Sorawit Songsataya.

Otherwise-image-worlds
Multiple images of people playing in and laying next to a stream are overlaid in layers of cyan magenta yellow and black.

Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows

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City Gallery Wellington · April 29, 2022 - August 13, 2022

Recent artists' moving image work from Aotearoa exploring indigenous histories and current discourse through an array of filmic languages.

Tai timu! Tai pari!
A close up of a natural organism that has rotted or decayed into a new form somewhere between the grotesque and beautiful. The organism sits on top of another green organic material with patches of liquid which appear to be stretched as if they have turned into a gooey substance

Laura Duffy: Spawn

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Australian Center of Moving Image · November 30, 2021 - March 5, 2022

An experimental new work by Laura Duffy commissioned specifically for the online context by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) + CIRCUIT.

Laura Duffy - Spawn
Mirroed to reflect one another, small waves on a gray ocean break, overlaid with digital tekoteko and tukutuku

Whakapapa/Algorithms

ExhibitionArotakenga
The Audio Foundation, Auckland · March 18, 2021 - April 9, 2021

A new exhibition of multi-media work by Jamie Berry.

Whakapapa / Algorithms - an exhibition by Jamie Berry
A person sits in a lounge room on a comfortable couch wearing a pink beanie with jewels hanging out of from the beanie. They are listening to something on their Bluetooth speaker

Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns

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March 30, 2021

2020's Artist Cinema Commissions are five new works by Rangituhia Hollis, Ana Iti, Alex Monteith, Sione Monu, and Gary-Ross Pastrana.

CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions: Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns
Three plastic characters are all dressed in white in front of a bright pink and blue swirling background. One character is wearing a headpiece with sharp horns, another is wearing a white cowboy hat.

In the Shadow of Wellywood

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Plumbers Supreme, Wellington · Saturday 30 September–Saturday 6 October 2019

Mike Heynes, Max Fleury, Anna Brimer, and Pippy McClenaghan show new work that reuses cast-offs and found materials.

In the Shadow of Wellywood
A person with dark hair sits in a domestic setting facing the camera. Their eyes look to something offscreen. The background is blurred, but shows, at left, a pastel coloured curtain. At right, we see a window through whichappears to be nature.

Projection Series #6: A Little Faith

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Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth · May 5, 2017 - June 23, 2017

Seven artist videos examining the pitfalls of trust. As confidence in political systems plummets worldwide, what alternative belief systems might we choose to explore?

Projection Series #6: A Little Faith

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