Exhibits,
Hana Pera Aoake Te Mamaeroa
Opening: Wednesday September 4th, 6-8pm Dates: 4 - 28 Sept
Te Mamaeroa is a work of memory. The moving image work retraces layers of whakapapa (genealogy) from the farms, cattle, and gates of the 21st century to the maunga (mountains) and mists of the deep past. Taking place in Matamata, better known as the home of the Hobbiton set, the work interrogates the physical and emotional distance between collective memory and individual experience.
DOP/Editor: Frances Carter
Music: Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe)
Thanks to: Frances Carter, Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly, Nova Paul, Morgan Godfery, Miriama Jean Godfery-Aoake, Pare and Uncle Waters, Autumn Royal, Peter Farmiloe, Stephen Clarkson, Joanne Aoake, Pakhi Semmens, William and Leanne Aoake, Miriama Aoake, Autumn Royal, and Chris Corson Scott.
With support from Creative NZ and Creative Australia.
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Ngaati Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui, Ngaati Waewae) is a jaded artist, and writer based in Aotearoa. Hana co-organises Kei te Pai press with Morgan Godfery and recently undertook a curatorial residency at the Delfina foundation with Metroland studios in London. Hana is also a part of a Digital Fellowship programme with Creative Australia and Creative New Zealand. In 2021-22 Hana was a participating artist in Regional Arts Australia’s inaugural Regional Assembly. In 2020 they published a book of selected writing called A bathful of Kawakawa and hot water with Compound Press and have a forthcoming collections with No More Poetry.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Hana Pera Aoake, ‘Te Mamaeroa’ (Still) 2024, Single channel moving image work with sound, 8:19s. DOP/Editor: Frances Carter. Music: Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe).