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PĀNiA!, Change Ends, 2017

Goose feather shuttlecock, keyring

Dimensions variable

Photo: Arekahānara

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we met some instagram friends today! erie was pretty nervous, we havent really been having many dog play dates for a few months and she was kind of overwhelmed

but when we started walking and she had a shell she did just fine, as seen here with pānia who she walked next to for a little bit

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The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust  Part one Gallery Visit, 29th March-  Te Tuhi Gallery Works by PĀNiA!

Lunchbox Legend, 2019

Plastic container and lid (screen-printed), Light fitting, bulb, electrical cord, plug, fixings, 16 pieces, 14.5 x21 x7cm each

Lunchbox Legend, 2019 Installation View

Plastic container and lid (screen-printed), Light fitting, bulb, electrical cord, plug, fixings, 16 pieces, 14.5 x21 x7cm each

Indian Country, 2019

Inflatable cactus, terracotta pot, sand

Pa Maori Plankjes, 2019

Wood, acrylic, custom vinyl stickers, straw, paua laminate, magnets, fixings

Pakuranga Customs House/Attitude Arrival Lounge, 2019 rope, bunting, concrete temporary fence feet, furniture, bollards, tables, chairs, blanket, passports, stamps, inkpads, stationery, fixings courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland

Pakuranga Customs House/Attitude Arrival Lounge, 2019 rope, bunting, concrete temporary fence feet, furniture, bollards, tables, chairs, blanket, passports, stamps, inkpads, stationery, fixings courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland

Pakuranga Customs House/Attitude Arrival Lounge, (detail - My “new” Passport!) 2019 rope, bunting, concrete temporary fence feet, furniture, bollards, tables, chairs, blanket, passports, stamps, inkpads, stationery, fixings courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland

I enjoyed the interactive nature of this exhibit, and the imagination behind it - the artist PĀNiA! is imagining a different colonial history where the Dutch colonised NZ.  It was all bright and engaging. It worked well as an overall exhibit, each element building on the others. 

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He Pānui Anō ā Mātou ki a Koutou! Another announcement from all of us to all of you! PĀNiA!, Yllwbro and A.A.M. Bos The Dutch Embassy 1 May – 22 June 2019 In collaboration with Te Tuhi

The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust continues at Mokopōpaki on Karangahape Road in the spinoff exhibition The Dutch Embassy. Here PĀNiA! in association with Yllwbro and A.A.M. Bos interrogates relations between people and places, using humour and provocation. In painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film and foodstuffs, they propose a counter-narrative to the nationally sanctioned 2019 commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the landing in Aotearoa by James Cook. Led by PĀNiA! the participating artists mischievously explore the cultural consequences of a 'what if?' situation in reference to the first documented European to sight our islands, the Dutch merchant Abel Janszoon Tasman. In 1642, more than 100 years before Cook's expedition, Tasman abandoned all hope of a meaningful retail encounter with local Māori, and sailed away into the sunset, guilders intact.

Co-curated by Gabriela Salgado, Artistic Director, Te Tuhi; Mokopōpaki and the artists. Nau mai, Haere mai!

Whakarongo mai Whānau: Please note, there will be no opening event for The Dutch Embassy Image: Yllwbro, Internal Circulation Klosterstraβe 50 (sketch), 2019. Courtesy the artists, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland.

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PĀNiA!, Yllwbro, A.A.M. Bos, The Dutch Embassy, 2019

Exhibition view, Mokopōpaki, Auckland

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, You’ll Never Be a Kiwi, 2019

Plastic sauce dispensers, acrylic, foam, fixings

8 parts, installation dimensions variable

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, You’ll Never Be a Kiwi, 2019

Detail

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Honorary Consulate (Mobile Cardboard Detachment), 2019

Cardboard, adhesive, masking tape, plastic toy lawn mower

49 x 31.5 x 78 cm

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Customs Authority & Passport Control, Central City Office, 2019

Mobile desk, Mokopōpaki flag tablecloth, PĀNiA! passports, Visa application forms, stamps, ink pads, stationery, stickers

Installation dimensions variable

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Self Portrait, 2018

Acrylic, tape, wood chip, sand, glue, pāua shell, seaweed, sea sponge on canvas

24 x 32.5 x 7 cm

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Mashed Potato Cream Cheese Moon, 2019

Slow baked mashed potato, flour, salt, cream cheese, chive, adhesive, acrylic, wood on canvas, found stainless steel ladle

2 parts, 99 x 61 x 9 cm

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Medicine Cabinet: Art as a Political Statement, 2018

Detail 

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, Medicine Cabinet: Art as a Political Statement, 2018

Medicine cabinet, mirror, spray paint, sticker, fake flowers, ANZAC poppy, pill bottles, autographed, unpublished, hand-written original poem (c. 2011) by Heather McPherson, modified Lego Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum model, band-aids

56 x 30 x 15 cm

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust (After Bruce Nauman), 2019

Exhibition view, Mokopōpaki, Auckland

Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland From the exhibition The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust; a collaboration between Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki (23 March–19 May 2019)

Photo: Arekahānara

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PĀNiA!, The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust (After Bruce Nauman), 2019

LED neon, acrylic, fixings

125.6 x 119.4 x 4 cm

Edition of 2, 1 AP

Commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland From the exhibition The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust; a collaboration between Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki (23 March–19 May 2019)

Photo: Arekahānara

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Mokopōpaki is pleased to announce the first of our short ‘n’ sharp Taihoa Ināianei or Peek Shows. Literally a ‘stop – pause for a moment’ Taihoa Ināianei give our unknown and emergent artists at Mokopōpaki an opportunity to step up, take the floor and test out their ideas.

In the Brown Room at Mokopōpaki, our Taihoa Ināianei for November 2017 features new artist A.A.M. Bos with PĀNiA! in a playful, three-week project, Whio: Blue Duck – exploring the nature and behaviour of this handsome but most secretive of native birds.

Whio: Blue Duck: Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos

The plumage of both adult male and female Whio is slate blue-grey in colour with chestnut brown spotting on the breast. Whio have attractive pale grey bills with some greenish iridescence on their head, neck and back and piercing yellow eyes.

Whio are believed to be an ancient species of Anatidae whose evolutionary isolation and confined alpine habitat has made them one of the most highly specialised waterfowl in the world. At home navigating the clear fast-flowing rivers of the New Zealand high country, Whio have developed unique anatomical adaptations such as the protective black flap at the tip of their bills and webbed feet able to collapse and fold like an umbrella, reducing drag as they negotiate the swift rapids of torrential mountain streams.

Whio feed on aquatic insects and larvae by systematically skimming the surface of white water to nibble over the downstream faces of boulders in the shallows of rapids.

Whio: Blue Duck are an endangered species and are intensely territorial and reclusive in behaviour. Whio are watchful and ever vigilant and will always see you before you are able to see them. Should they be disturbed, male Whio will sound the alarm by making a shrill, high-pitched, wheezy, disyllabic whistle Whi-o! from where the Māori name of the species is derived.

Whakarongo mai Whānau: Please note, there will be no opening event for Whio: Blue Duck

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References:

Lindsey, T.; Morris, R., Collins Field Guide to New Zealand Wildlife, Auckland: Harper Collins, 2000, p. 45.

nzbirdsonline.org.nz