Iona Winter

Nau mai haere mai. A warm welcome to everyone who can make this exciting exhibition I am part of next month.

Te Hau Kāika – where is home?

16 – 23 November 2019.  

Gallery on Blueskin, Waitati, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Iona, Reuben and Grace invite you to join them for Te Hau Kāika, a week-long multimedia exhibition at Gallery on Blueskin.

Te Hau Kāika seeks to address intergenerational urbanised Māori experiences of Dislocation, Storytelling, and Reconnection, explored through the creative mediums of poetry, music, film, found and created objects. The exhibition will illustrate how dislocated urbanised Māori experiences disrupt connections to hau kāika (kāinga), ancestral homes, and iwi. Te Hau Kāika will traverse the spaces between spoken and written word, sound, vision and touch. By interconnecting multi-sensory creative expression, the exhibition makes space for inclusive audience participation and feedback. Throughout the week we will perform at both opening and closing events, and during the later will engage artists in the Dunedin community invited to respond to the exhibition.

Artists

Iona Winter (Waitaha/Kāi Tahu) lives in Ōkāhau Warrington. Published and anthologised in Aotearoa and internationally, she writes in hybrid forms that explore the spaces between poetry and prose. Her debut collection then the wind came was published in 2018 (Steele Roberts). Shortlisted with the Best Small Fictions (USA 2019), and the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award (UK 2018), Iona has performed her work at the Dunedin Writers & Readers Festival, LitCrawl, Creative Cities Southern Hui, Edinburgh International Book Festival, and in 2016 won the Headland Frontier Prize.

Reuben Winter (Waitaha/Kāi Tahu/Te Aupōuri/Te Rarawa/Ngāti Kurī) lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. A sound artist who has created a multitude of stylistically disparate projects for over 10 years, he is well recognised for Totems, a project steeped in subcultures of hip-hop and electronic music. Along with playing a range of musical instruments, touring internationally and locally in numerous bands, his latest solo work is called Milk. Reuben has performed regularly at festivals including: Northern Bass, Big Day Out, Camp a Low Hum, Homegrown and supported international artists such as The    Black Keys, Mac Demarco, Lil B the BasedGod, Shlohmo, Metronomy. Reuben lives with fibromyalgia, a complex chronic illness.

Grace Verweij (Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri) lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. A curator, sonic and visual artist, her work often explores themes of abject loneliness, intimacy and spatial/psychological dissociation – creating dense and cathartic soundscapes, often utilising environmental or found-sound and heavy digital processing. Grace’s visual practice shifts between moving image, functional objects and abstract sculptural forms. She seeks empowerment through creating intuitively and collaborating with others.

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