My throat/a shelter
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ISBN 9780473711559
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My throat/a shelter is a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition My throat/a shelter, curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi.
The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi follow family narratives embedded in oral histories, home videos, material portents and screen histories. This publication features written contributions by Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta and Amy Weng. Weng’s extended essay expands on her curatorial interest in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee, and brings Tapsell-Kururangi and Ershadi’s work into contact with other writers and theorists to think about intercultural cinema, translation and temporalities. Aoake reflects on the unknown dimensions of parents and tūpuna in relation to Tapsell-Kururangi’s film Homman. Revuelta’s poetic response to Ershadi's two-channel film چشم چشمه elucidates Ershadi’s distinct filmic language across this and previous works.
Accompanied by stills from Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi’s films, My throat/a shelter is an incisive document of this significant moving-image exhibition.
By Amy Weng (editor), Selina Ershadi, James Tapsell-Kururangi, Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta
Published by The Physics Room
Released June 2025
Soft cover
62 pages
170 x 250mm, upright
Designed by Shaun Naufahu
Printed by Crucial Colour
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Author and editor bios
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui) is an artist and writer, who lives and works in Kawerau. They live beneath Pūtauaki maunga, where they write, read, parent, garden, make books and try to make art. They are currently working on a PhD from AUT. In 2024 they undertook a residency at the Delfina Foundation and will be publishing books in 2025 with Discipline (AU), no more poetry (AU) and Compound Press (NZ).
Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist working within a lineage of experimental film forms. She holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts and a BA majoring in English Literature from the University of Auckland.
Manon Revuelta is a poet and arts writer living in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work can be found in Michael Lett Documents, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, and The Art Paper. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, and was awarded the 2019 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.
James Tapsell-Kururangi (Te Arawa, Tainui, Ngāti Porou) is a curator and artist based in Ōtautahi. Recent exhibitions include Indigenous Histories, Museo de Arte de Sāo Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sāo Paulo, 2023; The long waves of our ocean, National Library, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022; twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022; and Matarau, City Gallery Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022.
Amy Weng is an independent curator, art writer and editor based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She was the former curator of The Physics Room (2022-24), and has curated projects at Te Tuhi, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, RM, Meanwhile and Window Gallery. She was the organiser of the inaugural Asian Aotearoa Artists Hui (2017) and the founder of Hainamana, a website dedicated to Asian New Zealand contemporary art and culture (2016-2020).
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473711559
Arts and Culture
My throat/a shelter is a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition My throat/a shelter, curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi.
The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi follow family narratives embedded in oral histories, home videos, material portents and screen histories. This publication features written contributions by Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta and Amy Weng. Weng’s extended essay expands on her curatorial interest in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee, and brings Tapsell-Kururangi and Ershadi’s work into contact with other writers and theorists to think about intercultural cinema, translation and temporalities. Aoake reflects on the unknown dimensions of parents and tūpuna in relation to Tapsell-Kururangi’s film Homman. Revuelta’s poetic response to Ershadi's two-channel film چشم چشمه elucidates Ershadi’s distinct filmic language across this and previous works.
Accompanied by stills from Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi’s films, My throat/a shelter is an incisive document of this significant moving-image exhibition.
By Amy Weng (editor), Selina Ershadi, James Tapsell-Kururangi, Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta
Published by The Physics Room
Released June 2025
Soft cover
62 pages
170 x 250mm, upright
Designed by Shaun Naufahu
Printed by Crucial Colour
Download NTI Sheet
Author and editor bios
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui) is an artist and writer, who lives and works in Kawerau. They live beneath Pūtauaki maunga, where they write, read, parent, garden, make books and try to make art. They are currently working on a PhD from AUT. In 2024 they undertook a residency at the Delfina Foundation and will be publishing books in 2025 with Discipline (AU), no more poetry (AU) and Compound Press (NZ).
Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist working within a lineage of experimental film forms. She holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts and a BA majoring in English Literature from the University of Auckland.
Manon Revuelta is a poet and arts writer living in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work can be found in Michael Lett Documents, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, and The Art Paper. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, and was awarded the 2019 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.
James Tapsell-Kururangi (Te Arawa, Tainui, Ngāti Porou) is a curator and artist based in Ōtautahi. Recent exhibitions include Indigenous Histories, Museo de Arte de Sāo Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sāo Paulo, 2023; The long waves of our ocean, National Library, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022; twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022; and Matarau, City Gallery Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022.
Amy Weng is an independent curator, art writer and editor based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She was the former curator of The Physics Room (2022-24), and has curated projects at Te Tuhi, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, RM, Meanwhile and Window Gallery. She was the organiser of the inaugural Asian Aotearoa Artists Hui (2017) and the founder of Hainamana, a website dedicated to Asian New Zealand contemporary art and culture (2016-2020).
Wholesale $15.65 + GST
RRP $30.00
ISBN 9780473711559
Arts and Culture
My throat/a shelter is a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition My throat/a shelter, curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi.
The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi follow family narratives embedded in oral histories, home videos, material portents and screen histories. This publication features written contributions by Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta and Amy Weng. Weng’s extended essay expands on her curatorial interest in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee, and brings Tapsell-Kururangi and Ershadi’s work into contact with other writers and theorists to think about intercultural cinema, translation and temporalities. Aoake reflects on the unknown dimensions of parents and tūpuna in relation to Tapsell-Kururangi’s film Homman. Revuelta’s poetic response to Ershadi's two-channel film چشم چشمه elucidates Ershadi’s distinct filmic language across this and previous works.
Accompanied by stills from Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi’s films, My throat/a shelter is an incisive document of this significant moving-image exhibition.
By Amy Weng (editor), Selina Ershadi, James Tapsell-Kururangi, Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta
Published by The Physics Room
Released June 2025
Soft cover
62 pages
170 x 250mm, upright
Designed by Shaun Naufahu
Printed by Crucial Colour
Download NTI Sheet
Author and editor bios
Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Waikato/Tainui) is an artist and writer, who lives and works in Kawerau. They live beneath Pūtauaki maunga, where they write, read, parent, garden, make books and try to make art. They are currently working on a PhD from AUT. In 2024 they undertook a residency at the Delfina Foundation and will be publishing books in 2025 with Discipline (AU), no more poetry (AU) and Compound Press (NZ).
Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist working within a lineage of experimental film forms. She holds an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts and a BA majoring in English Literature from the University of Auckland.
Manon Revuelta is a poet and arts writer living in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her work can be found in Michael Lett Documents, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, and The Art Paper. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, and was awarded the 2019 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.
James Tapsell-Kururangi (Te Arawa, Tainui, Ngāti Porou) is a curator and artist based in Ōtautahi. Recent exhibitions include Indigenous Histories, Museo de Arte de Sāo Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sāo Paulo, 2023; The long waves of our ocean, National Library, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022; twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui + queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2022; and Matarau, City Gallery Wellington, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 2022.
Amy Weng is an independent curator, art writer and editor based in Tāmaki Makaurau. She was the former curator of The Physics Room (2022-24), and has curated projects at Te Tuhi, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, RM, Meanwhile and Window Gallery. She was the organiser of the inaugural Asian Aotearoa Artists Hui (2017) and the founder of Hainamana, a website dedicated to Asian New Zealand contemporary art and culture (2016-2020).