Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear

Huarere: Weather Eye, Weather Ear, the exhibition programme, began its digital programme on the Winter Solstice, 21 June 2022, and took physical form in an exhibition held at Te Tuhi between 4 June and 31 July 2023. 

The e-publication features responses by writers and poets: Cassandra Barnett, Eleanor Cooper, Gabi Lardies, Liam Jacobson, Ammon Ngakuru, Talia Smith and Mairātea Mohi, with design by Caroline Powley. The e-publication also includes documentation of six projects by artists including:

Breath of Weather Collective
Denise Batchelor
Janine Randerson
Julieanna PrestonKalisolaite ‘Uhila
Layne Waerea
Maureen Lander
Mick Douglas
Paul Cullen
Phil Dadson
Rachel Shearer
Ron Bull
Stefan Marks
Stiobhan Lothian

Co-edited by Janine Randerson, Alena Kavka and Felixe Laing. Published by Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Ngaru Paewhenua. Installation by Maureen Lander with video projection by Denise Bachelor and sound by Stiobhan Lothian.

Mākū, te hā o Haupapa: Moisture, the breath of Haupapa Collaborating artists: Ron Bull (voice); Stefan Marks (coding, programming); Janine Randerson (video); Rachel Shearer (sound). Heather Purdie, glaciologist and scientific advisor, University of Canterbury.

An aeolian harp by Breath of Weather Collective members James McCarthy and Phil Dadson.

FORECAST (2023) Three billboards created by Julieanna Preston, Layne Waerea and Mick Douglas. Documentation of the billboards on Reeves Road, outside Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. Video Documentation: Joshua Lewis

Janine Randerson

Exhibition curator and lead editor of the e-publication Janine Randerson is an artist and writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her moving image and performance works are exhibited in the Asia-Moana region and internationally. Her art practice includes video installation, 16mm film, sound and online artworks. Janine’s book Weather as Medium:Toward a Meteorological Art (MIT Press, 2018) focuses on modern and contemporary artworks that engage with our present and future weathers. Janine also facilitates art events and screening programmes including Heat: Solar Revolutions (2017), Place Un-making (New Zealand International Film Festival, 2015) and fathomless (2021).

Commissioned by Te Tuhi and supported by NIWA, Creative New Zealand, Contemporary Art Foundation, AUT University and Auckland Council.

Part of the weather station: Te Moana Nui A Kiwa, Aotearoa (Great Ocean of Kiwa, New Zealand) - find out more here.