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Contemporary HUM is a central hub for Aotearoa New Zealand arts abroad. Launched in 2016. contemporaryhum.com Paris, France Joined April 2017-
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✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Sámi journalist Dávvet Bruun-Solbaak speaks with Ngāti Porou artist and educator Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa about the international tour of his exhibition 'Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space’ and about some of the guiding ideas of his practice.
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Taking the form of an experimental glossary, José B. Segebre’s conversation with artist Juliet Carpenter jumps from personal memories & notes on their most recent works to discussions of iconic characters, technology & the representational politics of fiction.
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Deep in northern Turtle Island Canada, artist and writer Emily Jan encountered the trees and timbers held in ‘Collective’, an exhibition by Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie. Read Jan's new text here: contemporaryhum.com/writing/collec…
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Paris-based writer and curator Clémentine Dubost reacts to Amit Noy’s ‘A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope’, a three-act, interdisciplinary performance by Noy and his immediate family, staged in Paris and Marseille this September. Read it now on HUM!
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Curator and writer Emma O’Neill looks at the work of 12 Aotearoa artists in the exhibition ‘The Polyphonic Sea’, at @bundanon in the Dharawal Country of south eastern Australia. Read it here in full: contemporaryhum.com/writing/the-po…
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ Jennifer Pastore writes on the exhibition 'I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea' by printmaker and metalworker Grace Mirams, at @GALERYcrossing in Gifu, Japan, from 6–20 August 2023. Read the publication in full: tinyurl.com/hum-grace-mira…
“do you think it is rather natural to fear excess in the same way we fear lack?” - daniel ward Last week HUM published a letter from Berlin-based poet daniel ward to artist Ella Sutherland, about her 12-month residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Read it now on HUM!
✧ FROM THE HUM FILES ✧ In a part-essay, part-dialogue published in September 2020, Maya Wilson-Sanchez examines Shannon Te Ao's (Ngāti Tūwharetoa) major project in Canada, meditating on the relationships between indigenous populations in colonised nations. Read it on HUM!
✧ LUND ✧ From 28—29 September, Maddie Leach hosts ‘Fountains Failures Futures’, a public symposium at @lunduniversity that thinks through the afterlives of public art. All welcome – follow the link on HUM to register before 20 September! tinyurl.com/hum-lund-sympo…
✧ BADEN-BADEN ✧ Julian Dashper and Juliet Carpenter are included in ‘Auditions for an Unwritten Opera’, an experimental exhibition dedicated to the oeuvre of artist Mutlu Çerkez (1964-2005) at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. On through 08 October 2023. More info on HUM!
✧ TORONTO ✧ Running from 07—17 September, this year's @TIFF_NET includes the world premiere of two films from Aotearoa talent: 'The Convert' by #LeeTamahori & 'Uproar', directed by Paul Middleditch & Hamish Bennett & co-written by Sonia Whiteman. contemporaryhum.com/calendar/
✧ NEW on HUM ✧ poet & musician daniel ward writes a letter to artist Ella Sutherland about her @CreativeNZ Berlin Visual Arts Residency at #KünstlerhausBethanien, continuing the commitment to queer storytelling deep within Sutherland’s practice. tinyurl.com/hum-dear-ella
✧ LILLESTRØM, NORWAY ✧ From 19 Aug—24 Sept 2023, #NitjaCentreforContemporaryArt presents ‘Te Whare Pora: A Sacred Space’, a series of bold quilts by artist Maungarongo (Ron) Te Kawa (Ngāti Porou). 'Te Whare Pora' will open at #SámiDáiddaguovddáš from Oct 2023—Jan 2024.
HUM contributor Ash Kilmartin's top picks from the HUM Calendar: ✧ Alicia Frankovich, Art Forum lecture at @UniMelb, 07 Sept ✧ Fiona Connor, Continuous Sidewalk, Los Angeles, 18 Aug—23 Sep ✧ Ilke Gers & Tanu Gago, @IntoNature_art outdoor biennale in Drenthe, 29 July—29 Oct
✧ SEOUL ✧ Until 08 October, Yona Lee presents ‘Fountain in Transit’, a new site-specific installation, as part of the group exhibition ‘off-site’ at the @artsonjecenter. Read more about Lee's practice in this publication by curator Aaron Lister: tinyurl.com/HUMYonaLee
✧ BERLIN ✧ Matthew Cowan has been nominated for the Art Prize of the Haus am Kleistpark 2023, for his collaborative project with Jana Müller, Background of the Background. The winner is to be announced on 31 August at Haus am Kleistpark! See HUM for more info.
✧ SÃO PAULO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & CESENA ✧ New York-based artist Brit Bunkley is currently included in events at Torrance Art Museum, Gallery 23, FILE São Paulo 2023 & the Malatesta Short Film Festival. Search the artist's name on HUM to learn more!
“Looking away is not an option: to get to grips with the oppression of capitalist patriarchy means grabbing it by the greasy pistons.” - Ash Kilmartin Head to HUM to read Kilmartin's text on the work of #AlexisHunter in 'An Emergency Exit Sealed Shut' at Kunstverein, Amsterdam.
✧ LES LAPIDIALES, PORT D’ENVAUX ✧ Over the weekend HUM's Director Pauline Autet visited James Webster & Paora Toi Te Rangiuaia (Ngāti Porou) who are both in residency at Les Lapidiales in France, a former stone quarry turned into a sculpture park over twenty years ago.
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