Through installation, photography and archival research, After Spectacle: Photography, Authority and the Archive by Kirsten Garner Lyttle examines how nineteenth-century visual technologies, museum practices and exhibition culture shaped colonial ways of seeing, believing and knowing.
Reassociate explores how pop culture disconnects violent histories from their original contexts, eroding our collective memory of nuclear warfare and colonial violence. Through hariko dolls, animation, and archival research, Japanese artist and illustrator Yasuko Toda reconnects past and present to question how cultural dissociation enables cycles of violence to continue.
The Papua New Guinea Sublime reimagines landscape as a space of memory, identity and cultural connection. Through expansive paintings shaped by Papua New Guinea’s environments and histories, Lesley Wengembo explores the meeting point between place, belonging and the sublime.
Using the hariko technique featured in Reassociate, exhibiting artist Yasuko Toda will guide participants through making small decorative masks for wall hanging.
Join artist Kirsten Garner Lyttle for a discussion of After Spectacle: Photography, Authority and the Archive. Lyttle will speak about the research and photographic processes behind the exhibition, which examines the historical representation of Māori through photography, archives and nineteenth-century exhibition culture.