For the second international edition of Vidéo Club, the French contemporary art fund FRAC Champagne-Ardenne is partnering with Te Tuhi, building a bridge between France and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Each institution provided a selection of moving image work for the other to select from and present as a continuous screening programme at their respective gallery.
All the work is presented in collaboration with FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and Te Tuhi with the support of Contemporary Hum.
FRAC screening programme | Vidéo Club New Zealand, Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces
The works presented at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne are taken from Te Tuhi's exhibition Takiwā Hou: Imagining New Spaces, a collection of Māori moving image works that explore Indigenous spaces and possibilities that have yet to see the light of day. The collaboration with Te Tuhi allows the French public to discover works by Russ Flatt, Kahurangiariki Smith and Suzanne Tamaki.
→ Russ Flatt, Te Ahua, Te Wa, Te Atea, 2022 (8 min)
→ Kahurangiariki Smith, He Tangi Aroha—Mama Don’t Cry, 2019 (15 mins 57 secs)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Manu does Matariki, 2022, (2mins 26sec)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Taonga Talkback TV - Episode One: Statue bro (gov grey), 2020, (1min 24sec)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Three: Statue bro (gov ham), 2020, (1min 16sec)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Two: Miss Tiki, 2020, (24sec)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Four: Good Golly, 2020, (1min 48sec)
→ Suzanne Tamaki, Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Five: Plastic Māori, 2020, (1min 32sec)
Te Tuhi screening programme | Vidéo Club
The works presented at Te Tuhi are three videos by artists Anouk Nier-Nantes, Émilie Pierson and Marina Smorodinova, allowing the New Zealand public to discover contemporary art from the Grand Est region in France.
→ Anouk Nier-Nantes, The Hills Are Alive, 2019, (20 mins 40 secs)
→ Émilie Pierson, НA ЧЕРНО МОРЕ – A la Mer Noire, 2018, (10 mins 7 secs)
→ Marina Smorodinova, Swimming Pool, 2018 (17 mins)
Read more about the artists and their moving image works here.
About FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
FRAC is an acronym for “Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain” (Regional Contemporary Art Funds), which were created in France in 1982. The mission of these institutions is to develop public collections of contemporary art in the regions, display them to wide-ranging audiences and develop ways of raising awareness of contemporary art. Te Tuhi has collaborated with the Contemporary Art Fund of the Champagne-Ardenne region, based in Reims.
There are 22 FRACs in France, their combined collections comprising more than 35,000 works by 6,000 artists of different nationalities. Their collections, which are essentially nomadic in nature, rely on original approaches to dissemination and education, travel around their regions, throughout France and internationally.
Every year, a third of their works are shown to the public, making the FRACs the most widely distributed public collections in France. Thanks to their mobility, they are defined as essential to territorial cultural development, aiming to reduce geographical, social and cultural disparities and thus facilitate the discovery of today’s art by the most diverse audiences.