This CIRCUIT Cast Mark Amery joins Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh at the Tongan contemporary survey Tonga ‘i Onopooni at Pātaka. In Part 2 Kim Pieters walks Mark through her survey What is a life? at the Adam Art Gallery. In part 3, in mid-install of her group show with the Mata Aho collective Kaokao, Terri Te Tau discusses sending her installation work Unregistered and Unwarranted to Eyebeam in New York.
Installation view of Halo (2010) Kim Pieters, digital video, audio by Edie Stevens, in the exhibition What is a life? Kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh
CIRCUIT Cast #12
Kim Pieters, Terri Te Tau, Tonga ‘i Onopooni
· July 16, 2014A panel discussion about Tonga ‘i Onopooni, a walk through Kim Pieters' exhibition What is a life?, and a chat to Terri Te Tau.
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Works discussed in this episode
Terri Te Tau
Unwarranted and Unregistered #2 (2013)
Part of a research project that looks at the expansion of surveillance culture and the social effects of these changes on communities.
Lucy Aukafolau
Dock (from Invisible Territories) (2013)
Footage taken during Aukafolau’s first trip to Tonga with her father and uncle to their homeland in ‘O‘ua Ha‘apai.
Vea Mafile`o
Who will douse the kingdom? (riot excerpt) (2007)
Footage of the 2006 Tongan riots showing looting, burning shops and chaos in the streets.
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