Join us for the final in our series of lunchtime talks from Te Upoko-o-te-Ika-a-Māui based artists in response to ‘A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa’:
'Through a Contemporary Lens: Artists in response – Maija Stephens'
Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
12noon, Thursday 5 June
Free, all welcome, no rsvp required
In responding to ‘A Different Light’, Maija Stephens is reminded of the importance of acknowledging one’s positionality; who is behind the camera matters just as much as who is in front. In this talk developed in response to the image above, Stephens will draw on her interest in photography’s role in colonisation that has shaped her approach as an Indigenous photographer, to explore two terms vital to this discourse: mana and mauri.
This is the fifth and final installment in a series of talks, developed in collaboration with artist and educator Caroline McQuarrie, brings local contemporary lens-based artists into dialogue with ‘A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa’. Each artist has been invited to offer their response to particular photographs. Drawing on their own approaches, whakapapa and interests, these artists offer fresh and varied insights into the political, social and technological dynamics of photography and its implicit relationship to settler-colonialism in Aotearoa.
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[Image caption:
John McGarrigle, ‘Wahine Māori wearing a tiara’, 1869–77, albumen silver print mounted on album page, 97 × 60 mm, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena, University of Otago, P1911-001-016b.]
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