VOICES IN STONE with ROSANNA RAYMOND (workshop)
ROSANNA RAYMOND
WORKSHOP
Monday May 9th | 9 am – 4pm | AUT Manukau Campus | Tutor: Rosanna Raymond
VOICES IN STONE
A full day workshop using the Manukau Campus Sculptures to investigate the tension between language, the voice(s), the written word, the spoken word, the body and material objects. This workshop will create a series of performative interventions revealing, activating and interplaying with the hidden voices and stories imbued in the Manukau Campus sculptures. The responses will be shared with an audience later that evening.
Rosanna Images supplied by Lee Guichan and Kerry Brown.
Rosanna Raymond is a well-known figure in the NZ Pasifika movement, being an integral practitioner and inspiration from its earliest days. She has been based in the UK for the past decade where she has forged a career not only in performance, poetry and art installation and exhibition, but also as a cultural mentor, engaged at the highest level with intercultural dialogue, capacity building, empowerment and cultural understanding.
A ‘Tusitala’ (teller of tales) at heart her art practice takes a variety of forms ranging from installation works, spoken words and body adornment, fusing traditional pacific practices with modern innovations and techniques.
A published writer, with art works held in museum and private collections around the world, Rosanna has forged a role for herself over the past 15 years as a producer and commentator on contemporary PI culture, both in Aotearoa NZ, the UK and the USA working within museums and higher education institutions as an artist, performer, curator, guest speaker and workshop leader.
Rosanna’s workshops cover creative expression using Pacific stories and cultural objects, finding creativity in others and our selves, expression of identity using movement and poetry, and explaining history and cultural context using Tatau (tattoo). Rosanna has been invited by BCNZ as a collaborator and workshop mentor for this year's PIYN programme in May, in association with Colab.
OTHER EVENTS
Rosanna will also make the following presentations:
Manufacturing SaVAges - Digital appropriation, art and other acts of social intercourse and practice.
AUT University Manukau Campus
Registration essential as places are limited.
Contact katrina.bell@aut.ac.nz to register.
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