Thank you also to my friend Manu Vaea who visited Kelston Girls and shared their expertise and helped the students develop the monologues. The school allowed me to work across disciplines which really enriched the project, and as an artist, I felt privileged to sit and watch the work unfold. These pulled together all the different elements of our collaborative work, and I encouraged the students to relate these to their own lives and bodies. The portraits are drawn from monologues performed by the Year 11 English and Art students. ![]() You seem to be reaching for a creative synthesis or 'total art' with these teenagers. Can you tell me what they’re up to? ![]() The portraits reflect your own approach in the classroom, which involved writing, costume design, and performance. I like the incompleteness and the potential of it. It's not filled in-there are no mortgage repayments or heavy responsibilities. Also, it’s really fun to work with that time of life. For me, growing up in the ‘90s and going to Auckland Girls Grammar was such a formative time in my life. He’s the writer who wrote Mystic River and Irish American guys are always making his stories into films.Īnyway, he said this really cool thing: “you don't choose what makes you who you are, your family, your schools, your neighbourhood.” That's why I come back to these massive things in life that you can’t shift. What is it that has led you back here, and to an ongoing exploration of childhood?Įdith Amituanai: I found this quote from a friend of mine, do you know Dennis Lehane? ![]() It brings together fourteen student portraits that show these young people in an elaborate costume of their own making, alongside phrases or quotes from the encounters penned on the windows. Emil Sheffmann: Your current exhibition at Te Uru, The Moon was Talking, marks your second collaboration with highschool students.
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