Filmed above the train station in Okayama, Japan on an iPhone during a thunderstorm, 2023
Tamsen Hopkinson (b. 1986, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Pāhauwera) is an artist and curator from Aotearoa based in Naarm. She is interested in systems of measurement, and the fraught application of these systems to ideas of sovereignty and agency. Her curatorial practice is informed by collaboration, artist run initiatives and community organisations. Over the last decade Tamsen has worked across art institutions including West Space Inc., TCB Art Inc., UN Projects, Footscray Community Arts, The Substation, Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) and RMIT University. She is the co-founder of STUDIO and a board member of InPlace artist residency program.She completed a BFA (hons) / BA majoring in Painting, Art History and Philosophy from University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts (2010).
Recent exhibitions include Signal Detection, Mejia (2024), Octopus 23: THE FIELD, Gertrude Contemporary (2023), Open Glossary with James Nguyen, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (2023), Neighbourhood Contemporary Arts Festival co-presented by Footscray Community Arts and The Substation (2022), CONNECT I & CONNECT II, Footscray Community Arts (2021)
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This video is included in the exhibition 'Exterior Monologue', curated by Olivia O'Donnell and Virginia Overell as part of the 2024 MSD x Melbourne Design Week program.
See videos from all contributors on the Exterior Monologue playlist:
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