Rachael Rakena
Rachael Rakena is a digital video artist, with an international reputation as a collaborator with unique vision and artistry. Of Maori descent, she draws inspiration from close family ties, the intricacies of personal relationships within a Kai Tahu, Nga Puhi and Päkehä ancestry and their interrelated histories and narratives, and from digital media technology. Her practice may be described as digital video work, with a performance and installation aspect of execution, but she mainly describes herself as a video artist. Rachael will be welcomed to the Dunedin School of Art on the 12th of August where she will be spending time over the next month working on a new project. She will be giving a seminar on Recent Work on the 26 August at 12.15pm-1.15pm in P152. All interested members of the public are invited to attend Rachael's seminar.
During her residencey at the Dunedin School of Art Rachael will be working on a new video called "So many men under the bridge", part of He Waiata Whaiaipo series. For this work Rachael will be using the river like current of the pool Swimming Flume at the Otago University PhysEd School, the only of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
To learn more about Rachael's work please see the following sites:
Rachael Rakena is Artist Adjunct to the School in 2010.
(image above Rachael Rakena, video still from "One man is an island")