Kainga a roto | Home within | Innerlijk huis - museum beelden aan zee, Scheveningen

2 Feb 2011, 7.30 p.m., there's a video screening see - http://sonjavank.blogspot.com for more info

In the Unwanted Land exhibition, my canoe-home, positioned underneath the mountain range of the scaffolding, is a space for inner or metaphysical movement. The videos function like windows onto the land we inhabit. In particular they show the diverse beauty of New Zealand rivers, forests, beaches and farmlands.
The carpet landscape underfoot feels like the mossy ground in a New Zealand forest.
Piupiu courtesy of nga iwi o ngati hinemanu/ngati paki + Jerome Kavanagh

This suite of videos also weaves between various worlds - the world of Tāne (the forest and the land), the world of Tāwhirimatea (the winds) represented by sounds of breathing and signs of the wind (such as in the flags filmed at the Parihaka Peace Festival), patterns on the surface of water, and a storm.

In "The Moving Heart", the world of Rangi (the heavens) is referred to through Toroa Pohatu's lyrics about the celestial inspiring and providing illumination.
In the Māori language, Whānau Mārama means both family of the stars and family which inspires.

More about this installation: http://www.sonjavank.com/kainga.htm
About "Tablets", cast resin slabs incorporating text by New Zealander author, Katherine Mansfield: http://sonjavank.com/tablets.htm
More about the videos + credits: http://sonjavank.com/kaingadvd.htm
More about the exhibtion: http://www.theunwantedland.com

Category:

Film & Animation

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