This work departs from a transcription of a conversation between Governor Grey and Wiremu Tako Ngātata, or Wi Tako, (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Ruanui) in 1896.
This work plays with a form of “drag”, both visually and temporally, to embody the existence and continuity of queerness through time and space.
Words that are frequently misspelt, or spelt phonetically, appear against a black background.
October 1935 takes its name from a poem by Ursula Bethell, written in mourning for her companion, Effie Pollen.