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Also at Te Tuhi is U. F. O. B by Brett Graham and Rachael Rakena, which is similar to their Aniwaniwa collaboration at the Venice Biennale.
It tackles some of the challenges of getting an audience for multi-media screen-based work by hanging the screens with their sculptural surrounds from the ceiling, and supplying something comfortable, in this case beanbags, for viewers to recline on.
Lying in the gloom, punctuated by the electronic beeps and glissandos of the Paddy Free soundtrack, Rakena explains the work. "It's about Pacific migration and a kind of a homage to the people who have been brave enough to make those migrations. We were also thinking about rising sea levels in some of those islands, so maybe they are space ships taking us to the stars - maybe that's our next migration.
"The soundtrack is a combination of theremin, ukelele and Ned Ngatai played guitar - it's kind of a deconstructed Pearly Shells. We were also looking at stereotypes, the whole 50s sci-fi thing."
Graham's sculptures drew on the patterns of brain coral, and the shapes themselves are supposed to look like pods or spacecraft. Two are based on the spaceship Tem Morrison flew in Star Wars.
"You have to search for them in the dark. It could also be a school of fish travelling through the stars. We want to give people a comfortable space to ponder what it might be about. We were also thinking about the ocean being above, and sort of sinking you into a different space," Rakena says. U. F. O. B runs until November 4.
