This lunchtime floor talk is a curatorial conversation between Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu and Israel Randell about the whakapapa of the exhibition Hina Sings…

An iterative collaboration between Pauline Reynolds and Sue Pearson, Hina Sings… was first exhibited at Whakatāne Museum and Arts where it was curated by Randell. The work comprises ancestral tīputa and hei, and an immersive experience made by the artists with their children of poetry, song and moving image projected onto a screen of ’ahufara tapa. Conceived of as an invocation of, and offering to, the ancestor Hina, in this talk Wilson-Hokowhitu and Randell discuss the unfolding of Hina Sings.. leading to the iteration for the Adam Art Gallery.

Israel Randell (Rarotonga, Tainui, Ngāti Kahungunu) Randell is a curator, writer and maamaa of Cook Island and Māori descent. Her art practice focuses on making and being with others through tapa. Israel is the Curator Toi Māori at City Gallery, having spent her formative years curating at Whakatāne Gallery, working alongside artist and iwi.