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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Ko ngā taonga tuku iho a Te Waka Huia, i whakaemihia e George Pain i te rau tau ki muri. He reo ngū, he kōrero kua ngaro ki rāhaki, takoto noa.
I pōhiritia ngā ringa rehe toi o Te Upoko o Te Ika a Māui ki te whakaoho i te mauri o ngā taonga nei.
Nā te wānanga, me te koi o aua ringa rehe, ka hangaia ngā taonga hou hei hoa mo ngā taonga o nehe kia puawai ano.
He mea tauawhi te whakaaturanga e Te Waka Huia me Toi Māori Aotearoa.
Wellington Museum |Te Waka Huia O Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho holds taonga Māori collected by George Pain, a late-nineteenth-century businessman based in Martinborough.
Unfortunately, the history of these taonga was not documented and they have been sitting silently in the collection store.
So we invited Māori artists from Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui (the greater Wellington region) to bring their knowledge to the collection and give life and warmth to these taonga.
The artists have not only enhanced our understanding of the Pain collection, they have also created new works that awhi (support, embrace) selected taonga and kōrero (speak) to the original makers.
This exhibition was developed by Wellington Museum in partnership with Toi Māori Aotearoa – Māori Arts New Zealand.
School Holiday workshop. 19th & 23rd April.
Local artist Tayla Hartemink joins Wellington Museum for 2 special School Holiday Workshops inspired by tikanga, whānau and pūrākau.
Art materials provided by Gordon Harris The Art and Graphic Store
Event: Mahi Toi with Tayla Hartemink
Mahi Toi for ages 6-8
Friday 19 April, 10am – 12pm
Exploring temporary exhibition Te Ohonga: The Awakening, tamariki will learn how pūrakau passes down through the generations and create art for their whakapapa.
Please note: Parents will be signing in their tamariki at Wellington Museum and picking them up at Capital E.
Mahi Toi for ages 9-12
Tuesday 23 April, 10am – 2pm
Exploring temporary exhibition Te Ohonga: The Awakening, tamariki will learn how pūrakau passes down through the generations. Tamariki will then use traditional techniques to make natural paint pigments and create artworks for their whakapapa.
Please note: Parents will be signing in their tamariki at Wellington Museum and picking them up at Capital E.