Anahera-Jade in residence
The first gathering in the Parallax: programme is a five week artist residency followed by a three week open studio. Since early May, Anahera-Jade has been occupying the Kit as her studio to work, think, play and build. This gathering reiterates the need to rethink time and space as resources and opens the space up for this process.
Within the arc of this year’s programme, several short term residencies will occur throughout the year. These residencies act as a flexible and open beginning, activating the space into a dynamic container that holds and transforms with the presence of artists. It listens before it speaks. It follows what the artists already have and embraces the latent possibilities within their practice.
To support this responsiveness, there will be offsite trips during the residency that expands the studio, creating space for inspiration and ideas to emerge. The public presentation then is the trace that unfolds itself in time.
The studio will open to the public on Thursday 12 June, 6pm. Please join us to celebrate.
Biography
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HE PIKO HE TANIWHA RAU!!
Anahera-Jade is a Sāmoan/Māori moana maker/ringatoi. Her work has evolved to intersect rave culture, revolution and te ao Māori, developing an enchanting and instinctive style with industrial references to indigenous cyberpunk and alchemy. She offers expressions through the medium of dreamlike airbrush painting, hypnotic sound and installation. She is a staunch believer in the power of toi Māori as rongoā (healing) and she is the current kaiwhakamana for Kū Kāhiko Gallery at Moana Fresh. Always pono!
She participated in the Hononga X Aroha Residency with Hoea! Gallery and is a member of the Interis*land Collective, a tagata Moana, queer-led collective based in London UK and Aotearoa me Te Wai Pounamu, New Zealand. Her work has been shown at Te Tuhi, KARE, The Physics Room and Tautai.