ATC Video Now Online: Lisa Reihana
You can now watch the amazing lecture from our first Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the season with Maori artist Lisa Reihana as part of our Indigenous Technologies Initiative!
Inspired by the work of American and Canadian video artists fuelled my interest in non-standard formats. The freedom the art world offered, and the ability to wrestle with the tools associated with cinema, the commercial realm, magazines and broadcasting provided an opportunity to challenge and further late nineteen-eighties New Zealand society. Here was an opportunity to colonise the visual language of the time which led to much self questioning: What does it mean to be a first gen urban artist in Auckland, New Zealand - the largest Pacific city in the world ? How does gender affect access to indigenous knowledge, and what is it’s impact on the stories you tell? The resulting strategies has led to a sustained practise that attempts to both normalise and transcend ideas of what it is to be Māori.
Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program.
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