B NUNES PAHEKOHEKO PRESENTATION 092025

This paper describes the emergence of a framework of collaboration to support creative practice in the service of ecological alliances. This framework has been developed in a post-colonial, intersectional and embodied context, (Chandra, 2003) and as an entanglement (Harraway, 2016) between two visual arts practitioners working in very different but connected contexts. The potential exists to disrupt the colonial and imperial “distribution of the sensible” (Ranćiere, 2004) through looking, sensing and recording in different temporalities. These ideas are explored here through the undertaking of a creative long-distance collaboration between U.K based artist Becky Nunes and indigenous artist Maraea Timutimu (Tūhoe, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui). This collaboration aims to explore the possibilities of reparative art-actions between both artists and the landscapes they inhabit. Timutimu is an Indigenous artist working with whenua (earth) pigments, to connect past, present and future descendants of her tribal lands with their stories. Nunes is also engaged with projects that aim to amplify the narratives of other-than-human materials that are our planetary kin; with a particular focus on the ground beneath our feet. In an ongoing series of video kōrero (conversations), knowledge exchange and parallel art practices, Timutimu and Nunes introduce these sites to each other, sharing methodologies of fieldwork to contribute to a greater understanding of our connectedness to land, and assist in reparations for colonized and exhausted landscapes in Aotearoa and England. These methods include sensory ethnography, chromatography, and experiments with language and Artificial Intelligence. The collaborative aspect of this work is important, foregrounding an ethical position in relation to “the entangled materializations of which we are a part.”(Barad, 2007, p384)