Capturing The Airs, read by Huni Mancini by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Huni Mancini is a writer and archivist at the Archive of Māori and Pacific Sound. In Capturing the Airs she looks at some of the collection items she works with that enliven songs and cultural practices from around the Pacific.

Capturing the Airs was published by Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in Bulletin B.214, December 2023. It was commissioned to support the exhibition Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa. Throughout the exhibition storytelling emerges as a strong theme, as the artists ask us to share meaningful experiences that relate to the current moment and the challenges we face. All the contributors to this issue of Bulletin have been selected to speak to some of these wider ideas, thinking about how we communicate with each other – through sound and language – and also moments where this communication might fail.