Among All These Tundras

An exhibition featuring contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. 'Among All These Tundras' features at Pataka alongside the immersive installation, 'Where Memories Sleep', created by Wellingtonians Jason O'Hara and Warren Maxwell. 'Among All These Tundras' brings us art from the arctic region while 'Where Memories Sleep' explores an Antarctic legend of Aurora.

'Among All These Tundras', a title taken from the poem ‘My Home Is in My Heart’ by famed Sámi writer Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards land, language, sovereignty and resurgence.

Artists from throughout the circumpolar north share kinship with each other and their ancestors, love for their homelands, and respect for the land and its inhabitants. Yet they also share histories of colonialism and experience its ongoing legacies and are united in their desire to protect northern ecologies, languages, peoples and knowledge from the nefarious effects of climate change, encroaching industry and competition.

Featuring work by asinnajaq, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Carola Grahn, Marja Helander, Kablusiak, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, Barry Pottle, Inuuteq Storch, Couzyn van Heuvelen and Allison Akootchook Warden

Curated by Heather Igloliorte, Amy Prouty and Charissa von Harringa.