Keri-Mei Zagrobelna, Still from ‘Te Pito’ moving image artwork, 2023, featuring Jahra ‘Rager’ Wasasala. Videography by Pikihuia Haenga. Sound by Emily Bernard.
Yarn circle / kōrero with artists of Bagurrk Murrup–Kotahitanga
Date: Sunday 25 October
Time: 2-3pm
Level 2, Room 204
What can a piece of jewellery carry?
Bringing together the wāhine artists of Bagurrk Murrup – Kotahitanga, this kōrero looks at jewellery and adornment as ways of holding stories, connections to Country and whenua, memory and resistance.
Across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa and beyond, Indigenous women have carried knowledge through making — holding stories, materials, techniques and ways of seeing, while also finding new ways to speak, create and imagine.
But what does Indigenous jewellery and adornment mean today? Who gets to tell our stories and how do we carry culture, identity and ancestral knowledge through contemporary practice?
The artists will share what they carry from those who came before, what is being renewed and transformed now, and what might be carried forward to those coming after. The conversation will also touch on cultural exchange, sovereignty, appropriation and reclamation, and the evolving place of Indigenous adornment today.
Join us for a yarn between artists about adornment, making and the things we choose to carry with us.
Read more about Bagurrk Murrup–Kotahitanga exhibition here →