Pasha Clothier. Juried Artist
Constellations
The Loft at QUT Kelvin Grove
Artist Statement
In a Tahitian world view, everything has a mauri, an essential being or energy, a vital presence. In this video I aim to express the transformational Hihili (Energy) of Ahi (Fire). It opens and closes with the sound of the putorino tane (traditional instrument) by Darren Robert Terama Ward, includes fire audio by Dynamicell, sonified carbon nanotube experiments courtesy Ayen Deng (Nanotechnology Institute University of Texas at Dallas), with NASA and ESA images of comets and meteors. Carbon flies around the universe; everything is interconnected from the smallest level to the largest.
About the artists
Pasha Ian Clothier is an artist-writer of Tahitian and Aotearoa New Zealand descent. With Nina Czegledy and Trudy Lane, Clothier co-founded Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) an international, Indigenous engaged electronic art residency, hui and workshops hosted in Ngāmotu New Plymouth. Between 2006 and 2016 they worked alongside Te Huirangi Eruera Waikerepuru of Te Matahiapo Indigenous Research Organisation (TeMIRO) to present SCANZ 2006 Environmental Response, SCANZ2009 Raranga Tangata, SCANZ2011 Eco sapiens, SCANZ2013 3rd Nature, SCANZ2015 Water and Peace, and Water, Peace, Power 2016. Together they also worked on Te Kore Rongo Hungaora Second Nature exhibition for the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2011 in Istanbul and Cultura Digital in Rio de Janeiro, and Wai for ISEA2012 Albuquerque. Pasha Ian has presented work at seven ISEA – Tallinn, Montreal, San Jose, Istanbul, Albuquerque, Montreal, and Gwangju – delivering 120 projects to the public in seventeen countries. They recently completed the PhD thesis Ngaru Whenua: Diffracting Indigenous Practices, Quantum Theory, Electronic Art and the Anthropocene and are awaiting examination.
Credits: Pasha Ian Clothier