Art Theory: BVA 313 - 26/03/2019
Cultural significance in contemporary practices in Aotearoa New Zealand
More information on New Zealand artist from Christchurch Art Gallery
All artist below has a similarity, they gave context to materials associated in their work. materials became a topic to their work too. Different material represents different meaning to their work, like Shannon associate animals in his video, Racheal sees people underwater as migrants and Lonnie uses red and black as a representative.
All artist below has a similarity, they gave context to materials associated in their work. materials became a topic to their work too. Different material represents different meaning to their work, like Shannon associate animals in his video, Racheal sees people underwater as migrants and Lonnie uses red and black as a representative.
Shannon Te Ao
Walter Prize winner talk: what is it about?
30 minutes duration. Colonial history going on in his work, represented by animals.
Annotation on The adobe of indifference
Looks into the indifference in Human society, reflecting on animals
That look between animal and man, which must have played a crucial role in the development of human society, and with which in any case, all men had always lived until a century ago, has been extinguished
Two Shoots that stretch references a Maori proverb about two gourds facing in opposite directions, “as an analogy about relationships that are inherently flawed.
references a Maori proverb about two gourds facing in opposite directions, “as an analogy about relationships that are inherently flawed.
The animal presented, a donkey, swan, wallaby, chicken, geese don't fit in any group. He reflects these animals in this work has just as much to say about animal husbandry as a marriage in trouble.
Te Ao’s performative actions also connect to his Maori background: in some Maori tribes animals are believed to be guardian spirits left behind by deceased ancestors. Believing that animal has its own rights.
How the artist has layered they work, detailing with meanings in every aspect of his work. from space to the characters in his video work.
Rachel Rakena
Digital video artist works in moving image and installation.
She coined the term "Toi Rerehiko; means if describing and locating her practice. Rerehiko plays on rorohiko the Maori word for computer, translated to the electric brain"
Pacific Flower 2
year: 2008
size: 1200 x 1000 mm
media; Digital still mounted on dibond
year: 2008
size: 1200 x 1000 mm
media; Digital still mounted on dibond
The use of Te Reo in her work
Water is a prominent feature in her work.
Lonnie Hutchinson
Lonnie’s signature works comprise of decorative cut-outs made from black builders paper, which pay homage to Pacific women and their traditional arts such as siapo, tivaevaeand weaving. Maori kowhaiwhai, koru motifs, Polynesian designs and frangipani forms alternate with pigeon cut-outs or ‘Scary Spice’ like silhouettes. These decorations create a delicate interplay of space, light and shadow expressing socio/political/gender and cultural concerns.
Colour to express:
Lonnie Hutchinson
Lonnie’s signature works comprise of decorative cut-outs made from black builders paper, which pay homage to Pacific women and their traditional arts such as siapo, tivaevaeand weaving. Maori kowhaiwhai, koru motifs, Polynesian designs and frangipani forms alternate with pigeon cut-outs or ‘Scary Spice’ like silhouettes. These decorations create a delicate interplay of space, light and shadow expressing socio/political/gender and cultural concerns.
Colour to express:
Red is a recurring hue in Hutchinson’s work, that’s because of its association with blood and blood lines. But black is the predominant colour. “Black is where TeKorekore(the nothingness) and TePō(the night) reside – not voids of fear or forsakenness, simply the spaces where notions arise and transition from one form into another. That’s where the magic happens; it’s a space of infinite possibilities.”
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