NEWS
I’m very pleased to share the great news that Te Moana Meridian will feature as a major solo exhibition at Oregon Contemporary as part of the core program of the 2023 Converge 45 Biennial – a monumental, and unprecedented city-wide exhibition being staged in Portland, Oregon in late 2023.
What an honor it is to be a recipient of the Creative Capital Award 2022!!! (to develop Te Moana Meridian as a live experimental opera performance work).
Taimi O le Lalogi: by Vaimaila Urale.
Commissioned by Sam Hamilton in 2022 to submit to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations Permanent Mission along with a proposal to develop a new artist commissioning program to commission Aotearoa NZ artists to develop works of art for the covers of the annually published United Nations Handbook (that Aotearoa New Zealand publishes as it’s contribution to the UN system since 1962).
Te Moana Meridian Conference 2022
Transmediale Art & Digital Culture remote. response. request
The programme unfolds through a series of commissioned projects by artists Rhea Storr and Phanuel Antwi, and features some preliminary works from the Te Moana Meridian project, including a video piece titled: ‘-S51.4779925, 180.00’, and a double-sided A2 print (available to take) featuring A proposal for a United Nations General Assembly Resolution to relocate the International Prime Meridian, and and artwork by Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Vaimaila Urale.
Stay tuned for much more to come…
This work could not have been made with out: Creative New Zealand Arts Council, Vaimaila Urale, Janet McAllister, Rhonda Tibble, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Cat Ruka, Clara Chon, Tru Paraha, Ben Evans James and the Transmediale team, Daniel Gyu, Alex Hebler, Lauren Waude, sidony o’neal, Holland Andrews, Kai Tillman, John Akira Harold, Lana Lopesi, Zoe Nicholson, DJ, Pati Vasquez, Avantika Bawa & Martin Patrick, and Charles W. J. Withers.
My gratitude for these folks is eternal
Te Moana Meridian
Stay tuned…
In Gratitude | Exhibition at PNCA Center for Contemporary Art & Culture (Portland, OR)
A group exhibition featuring work from the Leland Iron Works Residency program. Thank you the Ford Family Foundation, PNCA, and the Leland Iron Works.
http://ccac.pnca.edu/detail/2852
Sovereignism (2011) & Sovereignism Amendment #1: the footnote asterisk (2019)
St Paul St Gallery. AUT, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Two complimentary video works (one from 2011 one from 2019), both shot at the same rubble island in the Puget Sound, Washington state USA. The works are an ongoing and evolving dialogue about how to best approach and navigate equitable land governance within contemporary post-colonial contexts. The second work offers both a critique of, and a needed amendment to, the otherwise potentially dangerous naive idealism of the first work. A recognition of a formal critical failure, and an attempt to amend it. Although general in scope, the work is mostly informed by the Aotearoa context, and an evolving understanding of position as a 1st generation pākehā in relation to tangata whenua, the rightful – and deserving – kaitiaki of the land.
Exhibiting as part of How to Live Together, curated by Balamohan Shingade
THIS IS A CHOIR
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, US.
THIS IS A CHOIR is a new experimental choral sound work developed in collaboration with, and performed by, the Camas High School Choir.
Premiering live at the Portland Art Museum, for free, April 27.
EVERYDAY FOR THIRTY YEARS, NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET
Aotea square, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
NANCY’S SUNSET…. is now installed at for several months on a billboard sized digital screen in Aotea Square as part of a 3-month public art program courtesy of Auckland Live!, and Circuit Artist Film & Video Aotearoa.
April – November 2019
EVERYDAY FOR THIRTY YEARS, NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET / DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
NANCY’S SUNSET…. is now installed at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Rear Window Project space.
Nov/Dec 2018
PERFORMANCE PAINTING / LOCUST PROJECTS / MIAMI, FL
A live performance painting titled “Portrait of an Implicit Situational Dialogue”, performed at Locust Projects Miami as part of their 20 year anniversary exhibition 20/20.
Performance: 09-08-2018. Exhibition: September 2018
UNIVERSAL POLITICS PERFORMANCE / S1 / PORTLAND, OR
UNIVERSAL POLITICS performs live at S1 gallery/performance space with Marcus Fisher, Coast2C, and Amulets. August 12th, 2018.
VIDEO INSTALLATION / MASONS SCREEN / WELLINGTON, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
“More or Less Rubbish”, a 2:45 looping anamorphic 16mm B&W film performance work is now being displayed on a public art monitor in downtown Wellington. July 2018
SCREENING / WHITECHAPEL GALLERY / LONDON, UK
“FOR THIRTY YEARS NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET” screens at Whitechapel Gallery London May 3rd, with Q&A between Dr Mercedes Vicente, George Clarke, Mark Williams, and Sam Hamilton
SCREENING / COAXIAL / LOS ANGELES
of APPLE PIE at Coaxial Art Foundation, Downtown LA, January 27th, with Felisha Ledesma.
NEW MUSIC RECORD
SUPER POSITIONS is a new 8x track suite of minimalist string meditations, emotional organ tapestries, brutalist guitar divinations, and biological musique concrete from the tropical Amazon rain forest.
EXHIBITION & SCREENING / GOVETT BREWSTER / TARANAKI, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
New scans of 2008’s BLUE TIDE BLACK WATER to show at Govett Brewster as part of the Free Radicals Exhibition along Len Lye works.
NEW SCREEN PRINTS FOR SALE
New limited edition reflective gold silk screen prints of “Dear Kenny G” – from the Standard Candles Exhibition – now available for purchase
SCREENING / THE WALL / QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA
APPLE PIE Screens at THE WALLS, Qheensland, Australia. May 4th.
SOLO EXHIBITION / WALLACE HOMESTEAD PAH / TAMAKI MAKAURAU AUCKLAND, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Apple Pie goes on show at the TSB Wallace Arts Center Pah Homestead, Tamaki Makau Rau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. opening early Nov 17, up over the summer.
EXHIBITION / PORTLAND ART MUSEUM / PORTLAND, US
STANDARD CANDLES, a 5x month solo exhibition at the Portland Art Museum goes on display featuring 7x new film installation works, ceramics, and a painting.
TOUR / US WEST COAST
Apple Pie screening tour of the US West Coast, from Orcas Island to San Diego, April 2017.
WATCHABLE THINGS
Te Moana Meridian (trailer)
Please inquire directly for more information on this project
APPLE PIE (trailer)
2016: A feature-length, 16mm, 10-part cinematic inquiry into the relationship between astronomical observation and the evolution of human agency. Filmed in Aotearoa, Sāmoa with Sala Ioane Papali’i, and at a remote mountaintop astrophysics observatory in the US NW desert.
SELF DEFENSE
2020: A 20-minute film adaptation of Joni Renee Whitworth’s essay-poem “Self Defense”.
THIS IS A CHOIR
performing live at
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
Sovereignism (2011) & Sovereignism: Amendment #1 (2019)
Like a Villain: My Hands
THIS IS A CHOIR
@ Brick Bay Sculpture Park
TAKING SOLOS
DEAR KENNY G
@ Portland Art Museum
More or Less Rubbish
PROJECTS
TAKING SOLOS
TAKING SOLOS