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Mairi Gunn
Mairi Gunn is an award-winning documentary maker and cinematographer. Her practice-led research creates temporary commons based on the pre-modern concept of non-hierarchical relationship-building in a shared space. Common Ground, her immersive video installation designed to support setttler/indigenous relations, was exhibited at Resilient Places/Resilient: Elders Voices Summit at first nations’ Tsawout Reserve, Vancouver Island, the Pah Homestead, Auckland, and at No. 1 Parnell St Gallery in Rawene as part of the 2017 Hokianga Film Festival. VR experience, common/place, was exhibited at the Whau Arts Festival, Arts West, Fluid Borders Festival and at local libraries (2017–19). Come to the Table!, a collaborative experiment in AR, exhibited at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, brings Māori women to the table and includes interactive capabilities. A more recent iteration, First Contact – take 2, appeared in Garden Aotearoa New Zealand, as part of Ars Electronica (2020), a global experiment in virtual exhibition of digital art and technology, using Mozilla Hubs during COVID.
Contact: University of Auckland, 26 Symonds St, Auckland, 1010, Aotearoa New Zealand.