Sarah Hudson

Karakia (Ritual Chants) (2016)

2 min 9 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

A video work created as a part of Ōpōtiki: New Zealand's first drone-friendly town.

Karakia/Ritual Chants is an incantation to protect against surveillance technology. It calls on a customary platform to influence a modern concern. As stated in the māoridictionary.co.nz, "Karakia enable people to carry out their daily activities in union with the ancestors and the spiritual powers."

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