Zoe Thompson-Moore, To feel with the hand (tickling potatoes), 2020. Photo: Tim Whitaker
Aroha Gossage, Kumara Tipu (I,II,III), 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Artis Gallery. Photo: Tim Whitaker
From The Ground Up: Community, Cultivation and Commensality, installation view. Photo: Ted Whitaker
Artists BC Collective in Conversation With Grace Ryder
Listen to artists BC Collective and curator Grace Ryder discuss artistic practice, indigeneity, food politics, and The Dowse Art Museum exhibition, From The Ground Up: Community, Cultivation and Commensality.
BC Collective (BC stands for ‘Before Cook’ and ‘Before Columbus’), was initiated at the Corban Estate Arts Centre as a way to share, engage and exchange Indigenous ideas and concepts by partners and collaborators, Cora-Allan Wickliffe (Ngāpuhi, Tainui, Alofi and Liku) and Daniel Twiss (Lakota Sioux, Rosebud Reservation).
A multidisciplinary artist from Waitakere, Wickliffe returned to Aotearoa in 2016 after working at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Canada. Her practice often examines constructed identities of Indigenous people, developing platforms for the self-determination of such representations. Raised in Vancouver, Washington, Twiss’ family relocated for a year to the Coeur D’alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho. His late father Richard Twiss was the co-founder of the Wiconi Organisation and a Professor of Native American Studies at Portland State University.