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Arihia Latham05:00, May 01 2021
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Lady Diva says Tohu, bold wood flag inspired pieces showing stylised whetū in shades of the coastline represent navigation including her own journey from graffiti to gallery walls.
Graffiti art is like coded communication, it’s a medium of expression for many communities and cultures that feel oppressed or voiceless, it’s a way of expressing political thoughts and feelings or is simply political because it is reclaiming spaces that have been taken by capitalism, gentrification, ultimately colonisation. It’s an art form that has often sat beside hip hop in an uprising of indigenous voice in colonised spaces.
Press Release – Builders’ Fringe
City-makers Willis Bond and LT McGuinness have teamed up with Maverick Productions and the Wellington Fringe Festival to turn a major CBD construction site into an interactive event space for The Builders’ Fringe.
Kicking off at the Victoria Lane Apartments site on March 8, The Builders’ Fringe turns construction action into a fun, free and fully commentated sporting event for members of the public.
Jason Muir, the mind behind Maverick Productions, is spearheading the event and says the work happening behind construction site hoardings is “pretty epic.”
“Construction sites are the epicentre of our city’s constant evolution – places where people work together to create new, transformational spaces. However, what actually happens on site remains a bit of mystery to most people,” says Jason.
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A way of crossing Te Waipoumamu s treacherous braided rivers has inspired an art project in Ōtepoti.
As part of the Off the Ground series curated by Dunedin s Urban Dream Brokerage, which encourages art in unconventional and often abandoned spaces, Waiariki Parata-Taiapa, Heramaahina Eketone and Alex Whitaker are creating a storytelling mural on Princes St made up of 3D objects.
Parata-Taiapa says Tūwhana is based on his research into early Ngāi Tahu migration.
It s named after the driftwood the settlers would use to cross rivers. You had like the stronger members on each end and the less capable ones scattered throughout and Tūwhana is the name of that log and what is carries for us is the aid of working together to cross over the rapids of time to reach the end goal, he says.