Exhibition text for “Legacy Issues: Lens-Based Investigations of Waitaha Canterbury Whenua” - a kōrero with Emily Lazare

Feat: MITCHELL BRIGHT /CONOR CLARKE /ELLA HICKFORD /MOANA LEE /MIKE O’KANE /TIM J. VELING HANNAH WATKINSON - Ashburton Art Gallery, 27 April - 14 June, 2024

// \\ piki, heke (or “floundering with friends” - exhibition text for Peaks and Troughs - Conor Clarke and friends, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Aug 18 - Sept 16, 2023

hello friends we made cool things for a cool thing!

our contribution to The Physics Room’s Issue No. 2 of Correspondence Vol. 1 features a tamafreaky collab (chur Āio and Kāhu) and includes Godzilla, rainbow arero, nick(ed) names, and other such silliness (but also super-seriousness too, of course) - and heaps-rad kupu / musical offerings by Kommi aka Komme

ps - “pīrata” means to be conspicuous (and watch out for those rinorino wera)

love yous (massive mihi to Hamish and The Physics Room fam)

Tongue || Tide (and musings on vulnerability, collaboration, and the beauty and weirdness and hilariousness and awesomeness of learning te reo Māori ) is out in the world now, via Correspondence Issue 1 - published by The Physics Room.

Big ups to Kommi for saying “ok” to doing the thing with me and the ever-encouraging and lovely Hamish for bringing me in on the kaupapa. And, as always, thanks to the ika (and all that inquisitive water that I continue to return to whatever the weather).

Mauri ora, e kare mā