Rameka Tamaki
Music/Sound
2022
Read MoreLives / works: Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand)
Salvādor Brown is a Aotearoa born Samoan/Tuvaluan, Gaelic, Norsemen. He is a child of the Pacific Sisters and the hier apparent to the SaVĀge K’lub. Using his knowledge of Taonga Pūoro o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa, Photography and Videography he creates works that reimagine the sounds of the past in to the present. His recent exhibition at Tautai called “Moana Waiwai, Moana Pāti” curated by Nigel Borell showed his soundscape DigiTā VāSā that explored these ideas in side of a digital space.
Previously Salvādor was the Kaiwhakatangitangi for the opening of the Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery. He was the Acti.VA.tor for In*ter*is*land Collective in London for the Oceania exposition and at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris in 2019 and participated in the Inaugural London SaVĀge K’lub in 2011 and documented them for the Queensland Art Gallery’s 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in 2015.
In residence at Bundanon
The SaVĀge LAB is a Performance Space initiative created for Liveworks led by Australian – and New Zealand-based Moana artists; Kilia Pahulu, Rameka Tamaki, Salvador Brown, Sela Vai. Facilitated by leading Tagata Moana artists Rosanna Raymond (New Zealand/Samoa) and Latai Taumoepeau (Australia/Tonga), this project explores collaborative cross-cultural exchange in an artist-led environment maintaining the mana of Moana-based practices and protocols. The SaVĀge LAB unfolds across several stages of development in 2022, with a view to an outcome across Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
