If you’re in Tamaki this weekend @public_record_ Silo6 show is open 10-4pm today and Sunday. Last chance to get along to experience this amazing event.
Immersive and cleansing soul experience. Ritual with the water from the waterfall in northern land…
Artist5 - Rona Ngāhuia Osborne
Collection:
Purea
Kahumaku - A Cloak of Tears
Te Puna Waiora
2020
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Purea (puu-reh-ah) refers to spiritual cleansing – the clearing of negative energy and restoration of balance. Practices of purea often include karakia and the use of wai māori (fresh water). This installation brings together two video works and a collection of natural materials gathered from the Wekaweka Valley in Hokianga.
Projected onto the silo wall is Kahumaku-A Cloak of Tears, a dreamlike rendering of a waterfall from the valley near our home. Te Roroa are the iwi of this area, and one of their early names for the valley is Te Kahumaku o Te Taonga – The Sodden Cloak of Te
Taonga. Te Taonga is a prominent ancestor of Te Roroa. His “sodden cloak” refers both to the valley’s heavy rainfall and to the protection offered by its remote landscape – a place shaped by water, shelter, and renewal.
Kahumaku-A Cloak of Tears was included in the Toi Tū, Toi Ora exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery in 2020.
The second work is projected onto the floor centrally in the space.
Te Puna Waiora depicts Hineparawhenuamea, a deity associated with earthly waters and the source of rivers and streams that flow from land to sea. This new work is an evolution of our 4-screen installation Elemental, which was originally shown at the ImagiNATIVE
indigenous arts festival in Toronto in 2011.
Te Puna Waiora is framed by a selection of hand-crafted ceramic ipu holding water from the Kahumaku waterfall. We invite you to dip a hand into an ipu and flick the water over yourself participating in the act of purea.
The artists would like to acknowledge the support of some very special people who
have come together to help make this installation happen: Jon Baxter - Perceptual Engineering, Hannah Walker, Huia Marama Osborne, Ngāio Matariki Osborne, Finn Manu Bellingham, Simon Barker - Lotech Media.
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Last video from ‘Kindred’ last Friday performance.
Our hearts are full after opening for @public_record_ last night. It is more than a show, it is the coming together of makers whose connections stretch across culture, material and the landscapes they are made from - we are ‘kindred’
Forever grateful for the opportunity @yukaandtristan open every day until the 10th May 10-4 at Silo6 Tamaki Makaurau 🖤
Stunning new pounamu carved by Dean, designed and bound by me, modelled by Huia, accompanied by a special card with its kōrero drawn by Dan and housed in its own gold embossed box. Many hands and lots of AROHA ❤️
