Curating
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Ecocritical contemporary art slips into the mists of the atmospheric often. Allusions to environments have to be multi-sensory to evoke the richness of the bubbling quantum foam from which it all springs. The atmospheric and the bodily are closely woven. Prickling hairs on the back of the neck, eyes and nostrils widening to let in…
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Studying art history suited me because of its inherently interdisciplinary nature. I’m chronically curious. My undergraduate degrees were concerned with what I felt were fundamentals – political structures, global religions, Aotearoa history, conflict, how people interpret, what stories they express and why, how art and language function in these contexts, and to what end. In…
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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 20 June – 5 July 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. The two questions we should ask of any strong landscape are…
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Exhibition Text CoCA Toi Moroki, 1 – 18 June 2024 Ways of Knowing was a two-part exhibition that I co–curated with my fellow Emerging Curator in the inaugural year of CoCA’s Emerging Curator programme. Part I consisted of paintings, Part II contained objects. Swaying or dancing outright long strips of layered rice paper hang like…
