Tissage_Métissage // Weaving_Mixing

Published on 02/05/2009

Les rêveries d’un naturel européen confrontant son histoire avec celle du pays qui l’accueille. Une rencontre après un voyage de 50.000 ans à partir de l’Afrique, une rencontre entre des hommes et deux cultures, forgées tout le long de leurs parcours. Les enfants de Maui et de Kupe, de Prométhée et de Pithéas déjouant le pire, entreprennent le plus grand des défis: assimiler la culture de l’autre tout en préservant son identité et ensemble, concilier un futur. Que ces enfants un jour, sous une pluie de méthane, surfent sur les mers givrées de Titan.

The musings of a European primitive confronting his history with that of the land which welcomes him. An encounter after a 50,000 year voyage commenced in Africa, an encounter of men and women from two cultures, forged throughout their respective journeys. The children of Maui and Kupe, of Prometheus and Pytheas, outwitting all odds to face the greatest challenge: that of assimilating another person’s culture while preserving their own identities, of overcoming distrust to build a shared future. A future where one day those same children, under a cosmic shower of methane, might surf on the frosted seas of Titan.

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Jacques Sirot is an independent French film-maker whose creations over the past thirty years range from art works including graphic, photographic and multimedia installation pieces as founding member of CAIRN artists’ cooperative in Paris, to films on live performance and creative technologies events, and documentaries commissioned by local bodies and industrial organisations. Jacques has taught video and multimedia in a variety of professional development and art school contexts. His New Zealand productions include Tane’s Revenge, a film on forest destruction by opossums which premiered on NZTV in 1992 with an ecological “possum rap” music video (co-production with The Pauas), and a documentary on Tapu Te Ranga Marae and its founder, Bruce Stewart (Island Bay, Wellington). Recent Aotearoa inspired work includes audiovisual meditations on Raranga tangata, screened as part of Sally Jane Norman and Sylvia Nagl’s joint conference presentations at Duke University, US (2007) and the Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin (2008). Video works can be viewed at http://www.dailymotion.com/user/keoracobus and http://idisk.mac.com/mirlitant-Public. Jacques’ blog as an alien discoverer of Newcastle upon Tyne is at http://vendredi.blog.lemonde.fr/

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Intercreate.org is a project based research centre which consists of an international network of people interested in interdisciplinary creativity. Project foci include interdisciplinary projects, education initiatives and residencies. Intercreate is a not-for-profit trust that is registered with the Charities Commmission of New Zealand.

About SCANZ
Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art and technology event and involves a symposium, artist residency, and public exhibition. It occurs every two years, and has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011 will be the third event.

SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a residency is to be held late January to early February 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. It seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required. Initial expressions of interest are due 21 November, 2009. Please see here for more details.

SCANZ 2009 international participants included Nina Czegledy, Brett Stalbaum, Sally Jane Norman, Jacques Sirot, Sarah Cook, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Dan Torop, Melinda Rackham and Dominic Smith of The Polytechnic. Participants based in New Zealand included Lisa Reihana, Stella Brennan, Sean Kerr, Rachel Rakena, Natalie Robertson, Danny Butt, Herman Pi’ikea Clarke, Alex Monteith, Naomi Lamb, Caro McCaw, Jon Bywater, Julian Priest (UK/NZ) and many others.

Occurring along side the 2009 residency was a two day symposium (February 7 and 8), presentation evening & exhibition (opened February 7), and curatorial workshop.

Intercreate.org gratefully acknowledges the support and partnerships of:

Creative New Zealand

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

Puke Ariki

Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT)

TSB Community Trust

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