Australian artist duo Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro were artists in residence in with Te Whare Hēra from August 2016 to January 2017. In their introductory lecture, Healy and Cordiero introduced their collaborative working practice, focusing on key works throughout their oeuvre. Huhana Smith at Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s lecture. 2016. Photograph by Daniel Boobyer. Ann Shelton introducing Claire Healy and...
Matiu/Somes Island is a fascinating place, even more so when one understands the many intricate historical layers that give shape to the island - as it is today. After decades of isolation as a quarantine island, this island of secrets has been returned to the tangata whenua Te Atiawa, and opened to the public as a predator free reserve. ...
Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency presented an exclusive screening of Spectacles without Objects (2016) and A Recess and a Reconstruction (2011) by Louise Hervé and Chloé Maillet. Spectacles Without Objects (2016) locates performance art precedents in historic utopian social experiments, considering a ban on theatre in England 1642 to revolutionary celebrations staged by students of Jacques Louis David in Paris 1791, and the...
Louise Hervé is one half of the artist duo collaboration - Louise Hervé & Chloé Maillet. Both artists were Te Whare Hēra’s international artists in residence in 2017. Acts of narration are a central theme in Hervé & Maillet’s artistic practice. Their stories bring together historical facts, popular fiction and museum dioramas. They produce genre film, installations and perfo...
The Green Vessel, is an ongoing project produced by Etienne de France’s which sets out to tell the story of a scientific team researching large scale water contamination in a remote river, in distant lands. The team’s discovery of a new form of bacteria reveals the dramatic consequences of era’s of industrial farming. de France mixes reality an...
