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Tide of Returns opens in Venice
End Smoke – new video installation in LA – Wende Museum
November 11, 2023 to April 7, 2024 Visions of Transcendence: Creating Space in East and West highlights the resilience and creative power of people deprived of their freedom or their own place to live.Reflecting on the parallels and differences between two competing political systems, the exhibition presents a range of artistic forms, including drawing, painting, Read More
Orchidism – performance in Queensland
Orchid House Party performance, curated by Danni Zuvela: https://www.elevatorari.org/up-next-1/orchid-house-party You can listen here: Orchidism is a performance that explores the perspectives and love lives of orchids and bees. Using the voice and sound this meditation looks in a macro way at the markings and lures the orchid creates for bees. It reflects on species Read More
Tiny Unpredictable Material Objects exhibition at at Forum Wissen Göttingen until October 14, 2022
Installation of Te Moana film, Cook‘s New Clothes, Tupaia plant and Processions for Tupaia films - all at the new Forum Wissen museum Göttingen during Documenta in Tiny Unpredictable Material Objects exhibition, which is about colonial herbaria and the plant named after Tupaia. The caricature Tupaia made of Joseph Banks is enlarged on a lightbox. Read More
New book – The Contested Crown – out now
New REPATRIATES project book - The Contested Crown - out now in hard back and Open Access online at the Chicago University Press website: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo116106417.html Read More
Fluc Vienna shows Properties of a Presence – REPATRIATES exhibition on billboards
VBKOE exhibition of Bordered Lives – Vienna Sept 2021 – Opens Sept 3
Performative Lesung aus “Mit Fremden Federn” , Das Weisse Haus, Wien, Mai – Juli 2021
This activation of the objects/subjects addresses the copies of the looted and not yet returned. Reading to these figures rotating around the centre of an axis on which this time of return turns, Khadija picks up the book, whose shadow encases the object. The book is Der Königsweg and Psychologie de l’Art: Le Musée imaginaire by André Malraux, the figure in Lisl Ponger’s Read More
ERC artistic research project “REPATRIATES” and New Originals
From March 2021 the European Research Council will support me as PI with lots of collaborators on a five year project about the repatriation of culture from museums back to communities. We are working on contemporary art works that take the place of the "repatriates" and offer new originals. Please be in touch if you have ideas or want to contribute! Read More
Manifesta premieres Te Moana film
In the cinema La Criée - Théâtre National in Marseilles as part of Manifesta [click for link] from October 2nd, 2020. Since most of us can’t travel at all at present, it can also be seen online in Ocean Archive [click for link]. Ka nui te Aroha Read More
Productive Universals? The Aesthetics of Classification
New book released with ETH Zurich featuring my writing on Indigenous Taxonomy and the Aesthetics of Classification [link to text] in response to the thorny subject of universals Read More