Location: Brookfields Lawyers Gallery, Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi – Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre

Join M/other curator Sarah Hudson on a quick lunchtime tour of work by three video artists. 

Come and get an insight into what contemporary video art can look like. 

This session’s featured artists are: 

Claire Harris EEG (2018)
Through an exercise in fragility and perseverance, Claire Harris ponders motherhood by testing something to destruction. EEG light-heartedly starts a discussion about the imperfect art of juggling eggs. By expanding our comprehension of the diverse nature of motherhood, works such as this can encourage understanding and acceptance. 

Justine Walker HAPPY and 100s & 1000s (2016)
Approximately one in six couples experience infertility. These two video works respond to Walker’s journey to become a mother, and the process of subsequently finding herself childless. Through the meticulous application of materials typically associated with children’s birthday parties, Walker’s meditative works try to make sense of unmet expectations. 

Tash Helasdottir-Cole Pakiaka (2019)
Helasdottir-Coles’ Pakiaka expresses her experience of takatapui (non-heterosexual) motherhood. She explores the challenges through the metaphor of a rhizome root system; connective and reconnecting with tipuna (ancestors, both queer and biological. Pakiaka is interested in the development and strength of mother support networks that can grow and spread in different directions, in a constant state of movement.

Image information: A still from Justine Walker's video work HAPPY.