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Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment

Objectspace, Auckland

12 November 2021 – 20 February 2022

Toro Whakaara: Responses to our Built Environment, curated by Kim Paton and Zoe Black and exhibited at Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, presents a series of enquiries by five practitioners into the histories and economies of our shared environs. HOOPLA, Isobel Thom, Lindsay Yee, Ngahuia Harrison and Raphaela Rose have together produced a series of new works that celebrate Objectspace’s commitment to the development of heterogeneous creative practices in Aotearoa.

Against a homogenisation of arts practice – from globalisation to decentralisation

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