Day 1: Create & Challenge
Day 2: Protest & Demonstrate
Day 3: Tour & Explore
The Future of Monuments
Today, many want to pull down war memorials as expressions of bad politics, especially those memorials that legitimise evil and injustice. Are there 'good' war memorials—and who decides? Can we make use of 'bad' war memorials? How do we understand miscellaneous contemporary war-memorial projects, like Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and Ground Zero in New York, or Weta and Te Papa's The Scale of War and Peter Jackson 'colourising' World War I footage? What form could future memorials take?
Everyday Mysticism: Artists Respond
8pm
Sculptor Glen Hayward’s practice brings the everyday into the gallery in profound and absurd ways. Reconsidering familiar objects is a concern shared by other artists. Join us as they discuss their practices and why they find commonplace objects compelling.
Urn (Live)
9pm
Sonic artists Thomas Carroll (Ngati Maru, Hauraki) and Rob Tyler respond to the themes of Matarau. Fusing taonga pūoro and modular synthesis, they incorporate rongoā plants as a modulation source, to create works inspired by Māori philosophy, cosmology and experimental noise music.
IMAGE Glen Hayward: Wish You Were Here City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi 2022. Photo Elias Rodriguez.
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Tracey Morgan
Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga
Tracey Morgan was initiated into Māori weaving by the Kāpiti Weavers at the age of 16 and mentored by Hereke Ethol Jenkins of Paraparaumu, who in turn was taught by Tracey’s great-grandmother, Ngawati Morehu.
“I was taught on the understanding that I would teach”, a principle that Tracey practised in her career as a tutor, educationalist and advocate for Māori weaving, serving on Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa National Committee and as Editor of their magazine,and Deputy Chair of the Toi Māori Aotearoa Board of Trustees.
Tracey focuses on customary weaving techniques, patterns and colours, and confidently deploys this knowledge in new and creative ways.
She also draws inspiration from her relationships with other indigenous weaving communities. By incorporating these influences into her weaving, Tracey acknowledges the positive impact of these exchanges and her experience of feeling part of a global fraternity of weavers.
Tracey has participated in international festivals of Māori Art and has exhibited throughout New Zealand, Australia, the Solomon Islands and the United States.
Recent exhibitions include:
Whiriwhiria: Tukua ki te Ao, Mahara Gallery, Waikanae (28 October 2023 – 21 January 2024)
Matariki Exhibition, Guest Artist, New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington (2023)
Whiriwhiria, Toi Māori Gallery, Wellington (2022)
Tiaho Mai, Kiwibank Paraparaumu (2021)
Te Ringa Māhorahora, Toi Matarau Gallery, Māoriland Film Hub, Ōtaki (2021)
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