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Keynote: Digital Whanaungatanga and Aroha: Indeterminate Infrastructures in my creative practice – Toi Rerehiko
Rachael Rakena (Ngāi Tahu, Ngā Puhi) Rakena coined the term ‘Toi Rerehiko’ to centre, claim and name digital space within a Māori paradigm. She describes and locates Māori digital/video/electronic-based art practice in terms of continuum, motion, and collaboration. Her art installations have evolved to enculturate and politicize water itself, navigating issues of ongoing Pacific diaspora, […]
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Strange land singing: the video art of Bridget Reweti by Cassandra Barnett
Bridget Reweti’s whenua-based video artworks exude an everydayness so disarming it almost camouflages their wero to colonial landscape conventions (picturesque, sublime, wild, pure, natural). Almost, but not quite – because the everydayness is the wero. Reviewed by Cassandra Barnett