Part one
PĀNiA!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
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Pakuranga Customs House/Attitude Arrival Lounge, 2019 (install view)
rope, bunting, concrete temporary fence feet, furniture, bollards, tables, chairs, blanket, passports, stamps, inkpads, stationery, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!PĀNiA! Passport Uruwhenua, 2019 (detail)
published by Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki
ISSN 2537-8783
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Amy Weng
PĀNiA!The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust (After Bruce Nauman), 2019 (install view)
LED neon, acrylic, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Left: Cloakroom Motukiore Māori School, 2019
coat hooks, beanies, embroidery, fixings
Right: Portrait of the Artist as Bruce Nauman (After Bruce Nauman), 2019
colour duraprint, textured card
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Cloakroom Motukiore Māori School, 2019 (detail)
coat hooks, beanies, embroidery, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Portrait of the Artist as Bruce Nauman (After Bruce Nauman), 2019
colour duraprint, textured card
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Sore Horse, 2019 (detail)
wood, powder-coated steel, hobby horse head, dowel, glue, leather, duster, wheels, fake eyelashes, band aid, bandage, fixings, sound
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!The Merchant Was Here, 2019
plastic, steel, rubber, wood, wheels, sand, mirror, rhinestones, hazard reflectors, ceramic tokens, mini plastic/wooden spades, tennis pole, nylon cord, antique plastic orange, pennant, wire, tripod, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!The Merchant Was Here, 2019 (detail)
plastic, steel, rubber, wood, wheels, sand, mirror, rhinestones, hazard reflectors, ceramic tokens, mini plastic/wooden spades, tennis pole, nylon cord, antique plastic orange, pennant, wire, tripod, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Pā Māori Plankjes, 2019
wood, acrylic, custom vinyl stickers, straw, pāua laminate, magnets, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Pā Māori Plankjes, 2019 (detail)
wood, acrylic, custom vinyl stickers, straw, pāua laminate, magnets, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!A Little Night Music, 2019
mirror, pāua laminate on colour duraprint
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Amy Weng
PĀNiA!Lunchbox Legend, 2019
plastic container and lid (screen-printed), light fitting, bulb, electrical cord, plug, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Harnett
PĀNiA!Lunchbox Legend, 2019 (detail)
plastic container and lid (screen-printed), light fitting, bulb, electrical cord, plug, fixings
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Harnett
PĀNiA!Plastic Orange Band, 2019 (install view)
fake plastic oranges, fixings
16 pieces
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Orange Ballroom, 2019 (install view)
mixed media installation
Tennis Racket, 2019
wooden vintage tennis racquets, safety earmuffs
three pieces
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Orange Ballroom, 2019
mixed media installation
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Tennis Racket, 2019
wooden vintage tennis racquets, safety earmuffs
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Left: Ball Girl, 2019
foam tennis ball, acrylic, cement
Centre: (Do not use Marcel Duchamp), 2019 (detail)
found chocolate fountains, chocolate, tables
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Left: (Do not use Marcel Duchamp), 2019 (detail)
found chocolate fountains, chocolate, tables
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Indian Country, 2019 (detail)
inflatable cacti, terracotta pots, sand
Sore Horse, 2019
wood, powder-coated steel, hobby horse head, dowel, glue, leather, duster, wheels, fake eyelashes, band aid, bandage, fixings, sound
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
photo by Sam Hartnett
PĀNiA!Salut d'Amour: Salute to Love, 2019 (video still)
digital video, colour, sound
14min 30sec
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
PĀNiA!Te Marama Pai, 2019 (video still)
digital video, colour, sound
14min 30sec
courtesy the artist, Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki, Auckland
Te Tuhi, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, Auckland
Works by PĀNiA!
A collaboration between Mokopōpaki and Te Tuhi
Co-curated by Gabriela Salgado, Artistic Director, Te Tuhi; Mokopōpaki; PĀNiA!; and the artists
Te Tuhi and Mokopōpaki are pleased to present The True Artist Helps the World by Asking for Trust, a series of solo and newly commissioned collaborative works by anonymous, über-cool-girl, artist-about-town, PĀNiA!
PĀNiA!’s exhibition at Te Tuhi includes her Pakuranga Customs House or Attitude Arrival Lounge: an immigration and border control office, complete with passport-issuing facility, welcoming those wanting to explore a world built on trust. In architectural form, Pakuranga Customs House adapts a well-known mahi whai or Māori string figure. Its transparent walk-through walls represent the change of heart necessary for trust, allowing visitors access to the unexpected realm of PĀNiA! – where the mysterious myth-maiden and doyenne of the deep becomes a legend in her own lunchbox.
The Customs House entry point also functions as a place of departure in the homage it pays to artistic explorations of the past, particularly those of American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941, Indiana). PĀNiA! produces her own unique take on an iconic work by Nauman: his 1967 neon The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign). In this invocation of Nauman, one fantastical presence plays with another – a long-imagined idea of PĀNiA!’s. For extra engagement with the spirit of Nauman, the exhibition also includes one of his experimental films from the 1960s.
The collaboration of 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, foodstuffs and specially designed soundtracks, 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 made temporary landfall in Aotearoa, then abandoned all hope of a meaningful retail encounter with local Māori, and sailed away into the sunset, guilders intact.
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