TEZA PEOPLE
For information on TEZA artist projects go here. For information on TEZA concept go here
For the TEZA we have established a balance of skills to manage the project: a Kahu committee for guidance with relational leadership (led by Sophie Jerram with Te Urutahi Waikerepuru, Kura Puke), and a production team (led by Mark Amery, James Charlton and Tim Barlow).
Sophie Jerram - curator (relationships) is an independent Wellington-based artist, curator and writer, with an interdisciplinary practice involving commentary and interaction with the commercial world. With past experience in business and communications, she is inspired by trade, negotiation and collaboration. She has recently exhibited as part of ISEA in Istanbul in September 2011 and in the Article Biennial, Stavanger, Norway, www.article.no-en in September 2010.
She has long been interested in our attempts at creating difference and managing boundaries and as a curator her work has concerned artistic intervention into public sites. This includes the leading art-as-commons project Letting Space with Mark Amery (2010-2011) the inter-disciplinary lecture series Dialogues with Tomorrow with Dugal McKinnon around New Zealand.
Other curating includes Bombs Away (Physics Room Christchurch and Adam Art Gallery Wellington), Posted Love (National Library 1998, touring NZ 1999) Letting Space (Auckland 1993). Together with composer Dugal McKinnon she established an ongoing partnership to examine and promote artistic responses to climate change, Now Future.
Sophie Jerram - curator (relationships) is an independent Wellington-based artist, curator and writer, with an interdisciplinary practice involving commentary and interaction with the commercial world. With past experience in business and communications, she is inspired by trade, negotiation and collaboration. She has recently exhibited as part of ISEA in Istanbul in September 2011 and in the Article Biennial, Stavanger, Norway, www.article.no-en in September 2010.
She has long been interested in our attempts at creating difference and managing boundaries and as a curator her work has concerned artistic intervention into public sites. This includes the leading art-as-commons project Letting Space with Mark Amery (2010-2011) the inter-disciplinary lecture series Dialogues with Tomorrow with Dugal McKinnon around New Zealand.
Other curating includes Bombs Away (Physics Room Christchurch and Adam Art Gallery Wellington), Posted Love (National Library 1998, touring NZ 1999) Letting Space (Auckland 1993). Together with composer Dugal McKinnon she established an ongoing partnership to examine and promote artistic responses to climate change, Now Future.
"The TEZA is a curatorial extension of my enquiry into boundaries which first began with a project for the Tawharanui Open Sanctuary in 2010. This was a summer residency which resulted in a short animated film and installation, the Mud People of Tawharanui dealing with the attempts to define cultural and physical zones and maintain them."
see:
www.stealthfoundation.net
www.nowfuture.org.nz
www.lettingspace.org.nz
Mark Amery (Co-curator - production) was previously director of Playmarket and is well known as an arts writer, developer and commentator. He was part of the curatorial team at City Gallery 2000-2002, involved as a curator and editor on numerous projects, and formerly worked at New Zealand International Festival of the Arts and Artspace. He has 17 years of extensive experience as an arts manager, curator, writer and editor in New Zealand. He is a current member of the Wellington City Council Public Art Panel and a board member of Kapiti Coast's Mahara Gallery. Together with Sophie Jerram (under the Letting Space umbrella), Mark has managed the realisation of mamy complex and socially sophisticated artistic projects.
www.nowfuture.org.nz
www.lettingspace.org.nz
Mark Amery (Co-curator - production) was previously director of Playmarket and is well known as an arts writer, developer and commentator. He was part of the curatorial team at City Gallery 2000-2002, involved as a curator and editor on numerous projects, and formerly worked at New Zealand International Festival of the Arts and Artspace. He has 17 years of extensive experience as an arts manager, curator, writer and editor in New Zealand. He is a current member of the Wellington City Council Public Art Panel and a board member of Kapiti Coast's Mahara Gallery. Together with Sophie Jerram (under the Letting Space umbrella), Mark has managed the realisation of mamy complex and socially sophisticated artistic projects.
Te Urutahi Waikerepuru (advisor/kahu committee) is a practitioner in Maori visual culture, a storyteller, wahine ora practitioner. She has also been an education consultant, cultural advisor and pouwhare designer, highly experienced in community development. She is a company director working across a range of fields, with an extensive project track record in education, high-end Maori tourism, Te Reo, and business management. She is committed to ensuring that Mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori knowledge) interfaces successfully with mainstream knowledge by sharing her knowledge of a Māori world view through visual culture, korero, tikanga and performative presentation. Te Urutahi exhibited the ‘Wai’ and ‘Te Taiao Maori’ projects for ISEA: Uncontainable Nature in 2011 (Istanbul) alongside her father Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru. Concomittant to these presentations, are other artistic explorations regarding visual culture, space and people for meaningful, interactive, empowering experiences.
Te Urutahi has contributed invaluably to Maori and indigenous dialogue forging pathways for new knowledge and understandings. Conferences Te Urutahi has presented at include 2011 ISEA Istanbul, 2010 Indigenous Television Broadcasting conference, Taiwan. 2008 South Pacific Indigenous Cultural Tourism Workshop, Samoa. 2005 Opening of NZ Embassy, Warsaw, Poland, 2001 Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual leaders, Geneva.
Kura Puke (advisor/kahu committee) is an artist working with fibre-optics and light-emitting diodes. She is also a lecturer at Massey University at the College of Creative Arts (CoCA).
(http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/colleges/college-creative-arts/people/faculty/school-of-visual--material-culture/kura-puke.cfm). Kura is a member of various research groups including the WATT who hosted the international conference Wellington Lux 2011 (http://wellingtonlux.wordpress.com/) and SuRe, the CoCA Sustainability forum. Kura works with contemporary lighting technologies to create 2D & 3D animated, illuminated installations. Her latest projects include responsive, portable panels driven by customized software, sensors and solar power capability. These works explore how visual culture can continue to communicate and foster cultural sustainability and well-being in the 21st century based on a Maori based aesthetic and cultural methodology. Key areas of interest include; Maori visual culture, globalism, Maori cosmology, sustainability technology, innovation and cultural identity.
Exhibitions include Muramura, 2008, at Pataka Museum of Culture & Art, Muramura Puke Ariki Museum, Te Takapou Wharaiki o Taranaki, 2009. Group shows at Te Manawa Museum, Palmerston North (2009-2010), Wellington Lux, 2011, Whakanuia Kate at the Federal Gallery, Whanganui and Mahara Gallery , Waikanae 2011.
James Charlton (Interactive Technologies and Academic project co-ordinator) - James Charlton gained his BFA from Elam School of Fine Arts and his MFA at the State University of New York at Albany. He exhibited extensively throughout the USA, and lectured in sculpture at the University of New Hampshire, Monserrat College of Art and the State University of New York at Albany. Returning to New Zealand in 1991, Charlton became one of the founding members of the ASA School of Art Visual Arts Degree, and was subsequently appointed Curriculum Leader of Sculpture at Auckland University of Technology. He is now Programme Leader for the newly established Bachelor of Creative Technologies at AUT where he lectures in Sculpture and Interactive Media and is currently Director of the Interdisciplinary Unit.
Web site: http://idot.net.nz
Tim Barlow (Technical project co-ordinator) - Tim Barlow is a Wellington artist (MFA Massey University Wellington) with extensive experience nationally and internationally in film and television art departments, and specialises in crossing barriers of film production and art production. He has worked on collaborative projects with community and film based organisations. Commissioned projects include Manawatu Art Gallery, MONZ, Artspace (Auckland), Dowse Museum, Wellington Activity Centre, Vincents Art Workshop and many film production departments and will be the technical project leader for the TEZA.
Tim Barlow (Technical project co-ordinator) - Tim Barlow is a Wellington artist (MFA Massey University Wellington) with extensive experience nationally and internationally in film and television art departments, and specialises in crossing barriers of film production and art production. He has worked on collaborative projects with community and film based organisations. Commissioned projects include Manawatu Art Gallery, MONZ, Artspace (Auckland), Dowse Museum, Wellington Activity Centre, Vincents Art Workshop and many film production departments and will be the technical project leader for the TEZA.
Principles of our engagement
The TEZA comes with the intention of looking to bridge cultures and work in conjunction with the local people of the area in order to build renewal and connectedness.
We observe common Maori tikanga - customs (such as blessing of the food before we eat together, or of welcoming our visitors as a group).
We operate as a community and engage and collaborate to share stories and skills with visitors and local people.
We are committed to model alternative inclusive cross-cultural cohabitation, exploring ways in which visitors to a land can respectfully visit and exchange knowledge.
The TEZA comes with the intention of looking to bridge cultures and work in conjunction with the local people of the area in order to build renewal and connectedness.
We observe common Maori tikanga - customs (such as blessing of the food before we eat together, or of welcoming our visitors as a group).
We operate as a community and engage and collaborate to share stories and skills with visitors and local people.
We are committed to model alternative inclusive cross-cultural cohabitation, exploring ways in which visitors to a land can respectfully visit and exchange knowledge.