Manufacturing SaVAges

ROSANNA RAYMOND
PRESENTATION

Tuesday 10 May 2011  |  4 – 7 pm   |  AUT University Wellesley Campus, AUT Marae, Corner of St Pauls and Wellesley Street, Auckland Central | Speaker: Rosanna Raymond

Manufacturing SaVAges- Digital appropriation, art and other acts of social intercourse and practice.

Since moving to the UK I have been involved in many Polynesian based projects big and small, in various guises, as a curator, researcher, performer, artist, lecturer, workshop leader and member of the large and thriving UK-based Polynesian community groups Ngati Ranana and Beats of Polynesia. This presentation will concentrate some of the issues and insights that I have gained from working within this multitudinal position, looking at how it has changed, challenged and enhanced my art practice, using a range of performance and projects that has (re)shaped my art practice in the UK.

BIOGRAPHY:

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 WITH ROSANNA

Voices in stone (workshop)

Decorated voices (presentation)