Vital Machinery

201 Eastbourne St East, Hastings

25 Noema - 25 Pēpuere 2024
25 November – 25 February 2024

Ka tūhuratia e Vital Machinery ngā hononga i ngā mahi a te tokorima ringatoi wāhine o Aotearoa i roto i te hopu whakaahua me ngā ata nekeneke. Hei tēnei whakaaturanga, ka noho te kāmera hei hangarau, hei wāhanga o te tinana me te ara whakaaro anō hoki.

Ka tōia mai e ngā ringatoi o Vital Machinery hītori toi ā-mōhiti, kātahi ka toroa te paunga, te kahawhiri me te pūmau o te ata i te ao matihiko. Mārakerake ana mai te mana taineke me ngā matarua o te kāmera, ā, i whakamahia ērā kia whakaaroarohia tō te wāhine wheako me te mōhiti; te pupuri o wheako whaiaro, o auaha; ā, te tohu o te whakaahua i te hītori o te tāmitanga. Hei whakatere i te ao whatungarau, ka toro te whakaaturanga nei i ngā āhuatanga o te whakaata me te hopu i a tātou anō i taua wā tonu.

I whakaatungia tuatahingia i te 2022 ki Ōtepoti ki Te Whare Whakaatu Toi Tūmatanui o Ōtepoti, ka pau te kotahi tau ka whakahoungia, ka whakaroangia te whakaaturanga nei e taua tira ringatoi tonu mō Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga, ka mutu, he toi hou, he tono toi kua āpitihia.

He mea rauhī e Sophie Davis rāua ko Lucy Hammonds

Vital Machinery explores intersections in the practices of five Aotearoa women artists working across photography and moving image. In this exhibition, the camera has been engaged as a technology and an extension of the body and thought process.

The artists in Vital Machinery draw on the history of lens-based art practices and interrogate the consumption, agency, and stability of the image in a digital age. Ever-present are the power dynamics and ambiguities of the camera, which are exploited to consider women’s experiences of the lens; the entanglement of lived experience and creative practice; and the implications of image capture within histories of colonisation. Navigating the networked world, this exhibition reaches inside the mechanisms at play in the processes of representing and recording ourselves within the contemporary moment.

First presented in late 2022 in Ōtepoti at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, the exhibition has been revisited and extended with same group of artists a year later for Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga-Hastings Art Gallery, and includes new and commissioned works.

Curated by Sophie Davis and Lucy Hammonds

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When

Tue 12th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Wed 13th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Thu 14th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Fri 15th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sat 16th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sun 17th Dec 2023, 1:00pm

Mon 18th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Tue 19th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Wed 20th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Thu 21st Dec 2023, 10:00am

Fri 22nd Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sat 23rd Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sun 24th Dec 2023, 1:00pm

Mon 25th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Tue 26th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Wed 27th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Thu 28th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Fri 29th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sat 30th Dec 2023, 10:00am

Sun 31st Dec 2023, 1:00pm

Mon 1st Jan 2024, 10:00am

Tue 2nd Jan 2024, 10:00am

Wed 3rd Jan 2024, 10:00am

Thu 4th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Fri 5th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sat 6th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sun 7th Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 8th Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Tue 9th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Wed 10th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Thu 11th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Fri 12th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sat 13th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sun 14th Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 15th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Tue 16th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Wed 17th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Thu 18th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Fri 19th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sat 20th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sun 21st Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 22nd Jan 2024, 10:00am

Tue 23rd Jan 2024, 10:00am

Wed 24th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Thu 25th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Fri 26th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sat 27th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Sun 28th Jan 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 29th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Tue 30th Jan 2024, 10:00am

Wed 31st Jan 2024, 10:00am

Thu 1st Feb 2024, 10:00am

Fri 2nd Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sat 3rd Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sun 4th Feb 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 5th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Tue 6th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Wed 7th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Thu 8th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Fri 9th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sat 10th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sun 11th Feb 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 12th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Tue 13th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Wed 14th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Thu 15th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Fri 16th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sat 17th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sun 18th Feb 2024, 1:00pm

Mon 19th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Tue 20th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Wed 21st Feb 2024, 10:00am

Thu 22nd Feb 2024, 10:00am

Fri 23rd Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sat 24th Feb 2024, 10:00am

Sun 25th Feb 2024, 1:00pm

Where

Hastings City Art Gallery, Hastings, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne

201 Eastbourne St East, Hastings