• Ngākawau Kōrero

  • with entities on the Ngākawau River

  • Single channel video series
  • The Chronicle of <_____>
  • Wellington/Edinburgh
  • June 2021

  • Photos: Olivia Webb

https://thechronicleof.nz/log/ngakawaukorero/

Ngākawau Kōrero reflect my personal connections to a contentious landscape, the Buller District. Currently at the thin end of the climate change wedge, this area has been home to the coal industry for over a century and, in more recent times, also to a strong environmentalist movement. His family splits between generations of coal miners on one side and engaged environmentalists on the other. The tension between these is explored in collaboration with non-human entities at key nexus points in the region surrounding my family home in Hector, on the Ngākawau River.