Luminocity: Ahilapalapa Rands

Rands' animation uses traditional practices to imagine radical change.

On Wed 3rd March 2021 we were delighted to premiere new short film by Ahilapalapa Rands, specially commissioned for our new Forecast programme. 'E Kū mālo`elo`e' (To Stand Firm) is a hypnotic narrative film which disrupts ‘Western’ notions of time, delineation and certainty. It re-focuses the lens to an indigenous perspective, and asks the viewer to confront the ongoing violence inflicted by the colonial project. The facts it recounts are harrowing and urgent. Find out more at: https://invisibledust.com/projects/artist-performance-ahilapalapa-rands

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Moana Fresh is a marketplace and community space celebrating Pacific and Māori artists, creatives and authors indigenous to Moana Nui a Kiwa. We stock and sell works on behalf of more than 50 creatives including artworks, jewellery, ceramics, books and accessories. We actively seek to include and support artists who can face barriers in mainstream art spaces due to race, age, sexuality or formal education. Our whanau includes established artists, newly emerging, self taught and everyone in between. Alongside this we provide studio space, mentoring and exhibiting opportunities through our community hub in Avondale and via our window gallery Kū Kahiko.

Produced abroad, HT22 marks Lift Off’s long-overdue homecoming. A work on view at Bishop Museum.

The third essay in 2018's Summer Reading Series, Lana Lopesi sees radical change proposed in the work of Ahilapalapa Rands.