Nat Tozer, Erotic Geologies, 2024 (film still)
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ngutukaka.aut.ac.nzLeonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous Talks Aotearoa (L.A.S.E.R) presents Knowing the Living Volcanic Field
Speakers:
-Sylvia Tapuke (Tūhoe/Samoa) Kaupapa Māori scientist and PhD Candidate
-Kate Lewis (Tangata Tiriti) Volcanologist
-Nat Tozer (Tangata Tiriti) Artist
-Sam Tozer (Tangata Tiriti, Kati Māmoe) Moving Image innovator
In Tāmaki Makaurau the ground beneath our feet is a living field; in the shape of ancestral maunga and in sacred lava caves, we find the youngest volcanic mantle in Aotearoa. The base rock that our islands rest upon stretch back 500 million years into the deep time of Gondwana, while Rangitoto is only 600 years old, the newest of the fifty-three volcanoes of the 200,000 year old Auckland Volcanic Field. The memory and prescience of future volcanic events are inscribed into the names of our maunga, existing and excavated, the subject of scientist and researcher Sylvia Tapuke’s Kaupapa Māori approach to toponymic research. Volcanologist Kate Lewis (Auckland Council) recounts the fiery formation of the lava caves and the intermingling of geological and cultural heritage. She works to transform imminent threats of development into opportunities to get to know our volcanic relations. In resonance with the process of connecting cultural narratives, artist and film-maker Nat Tozer explores the underground as a site of human meaning-making drawing on science fiction, catastrophe and mythic journeys to the underworld. Her moving image artwork Erotic Geologies, which presents cyclical time and highly mobile geology as main characters, will be shown during the panel. Moving image innovator Sam Tozer will discuss his work on compositing an emergent whenua from geo-data in this imagined world. The panel will be hosted by Janine Randerson and Ziggy Lever, artists who also explore our geological pasts and futures.
This is a free event. More information here
Price
- Free - All Welcome
Date
- Thu 29 May
Time
- 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm
Address
- WG404, The Paul Reeves Building
- AUT City Campus
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous Talks Aotearoa (L.A.S.E.R) presents Knowing the Living Volcanic Field
Speakers:
-Sylvia Tapuke (Tūhoe/Samoa) Kaupapa Māori scientist and PhD Candidate
-Kate Lewis (Tangata Tiriti) Volcanologist
-Nat Tozer (Tangata Tiriti) Artist
-Sam Tozer (Tangata Tiriti, Kati Māmoe) Moving Image innovator
In Tāmaki Makaurau the ground beneath our feet is a living field; in the shape of ancestral maunga and in sacred lava caves, we find the youngest volcanic mantle in Aotearoa. The base rock that our islands rest upon stretch back 500 million years into the deep time of Gondwana, while Rangitoto is only 600 years old, the newest of the fifty-three volcanoes of the 200,000 year old Auckland Volcanic Field. The memory and prescience of future volcanic events are inscribed into the names of our maunga, existing and excavated, the subject of scientist and researcher Sylvia Tapuke’s Kaupapa Māori approach to toponymic research. Volcanologist Kate Lewis (Auckland Council) recounts the fiery formation of the lava caves and the intermingling of geological and cultural heritage. She works to transform imminent threats of development into opportunities to get to know our volcanic relations. In resonance with the process of connecting cultural narratives, artist and film-maker Nat Tozer explores the underground as a site of human meaning-making drawing on science fiction, catastrophe and mythic journeys to the underworld. Her moving image artwork Erotic Geologies, which presents cyclical time and highly mobile geology as main characters, will be shown during the panel. Moving image innovator Sam Tozer will discuss his work on compositing an emergent whenua from geo-data in this imagined world. The panel will be hosted by Janine Randerson and Ziggy Lever, artists who also explore our geological pasts and futures.
This is a free event. More information here
