Honohono

Explore the mounting costs of climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand through the absorbing, challenging creations of local artists. Blending indigenous methodologies with their own creative practices, they explore healing, herenga (interconnectedness), ancestral ties, and our kuleana (responsibilities) to the environment, examining the borders that separate people from their land, their ancestors, the elements, and one another.

What happens when we dissolve those borders and ho‘olono - listen and feel with our full bodies? What happens when we honohono- listen and allow for reflection, remorse, forgiveness, and love?

Can we protect what needs to be preserved?

The collaborative works in this exhibition use multiple mediums- including video, projection, sculpture, land art, augmented reality, mapping, and AI - in an attempt to honohono.

The exhibition was produced with guidance from lead artist Tiare Ribeaux (Kānaka Maoli/U.S.) as part of Creative Impact Lab Ōtepoti Dunedin (2023–24), a Leonardo international exchange supported by the U.S. Embassy in Wellington and hosted by Tūhura Otago Museum. Creative Impact Lab Dunedin is a public diplomacy creative exchange that utilises community-driven digital and new media art projects to address climate change.

17 February – 8 March 2024
Beautiful Science Gallery
Free

Creative Impact Lab Dunedin is a Leonardo international exchange supported by U.S. Embassy New Zealand and hosted by Tūhura Otago Museum