Morgan
Hogg

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Morgan Hogg, Ariki Vaine, 2021. Video. Courtesy the artist.
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Morgan Hogg, Ariki Vaine (Film Still), 2021. Video. Courtesy the artist.
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Ariki Vaine is a two-part video series reflecting the story and importance of Mother Earth through Cook Island dance. The video talks to the importance of cultural linage and the connection to our ancestors. Ariki Vaine displays a graciousness toward the leaders of our culture, women. The work engages with the disconnection of being biracial, and the importance of connecting with our heritage to understand self.

The two videos, Māmā and Maine, create a conversational barrier through language and movement, between the past and the future. Utilising performance as a universal language of storytelling. The work highlights the importance of maintaining indigenous cultures that are being lost through a colonised world.

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Morgan Hogg, Ariki Vaine (Film Still), 2021. Video. Courtesy the artist.
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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Ranginui + Papatūānuku is an immersive installation, reflecting upon the Polynesian cultural connection toward the land and sea. This work encapsulates the importance of spirituality within the Oceanic culture, highlighted through traditional storytelling dance. The primal source of life, the sea, is symbolically displayed as a freestanding water wall. It is the collaboration of sound, performance, and the representation of water, that educates the audience upon the Polynesian belief systems and traditional practices. Ranginui + Papatūānuku evidently creates an individual’s experience with understanding a spiritual connectivity with their surroundings.

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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Morgan Hogg, Ranginui + Papatūānuku, 2021. Video Installation, 2.6 x 2.1m. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Document Photography.
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Bio

Morgan Hogg is an artist based on unceded Dhurag land. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Visual Arts specialising in Screen Arts and a Bachelor of Advanced Studies majoring in Film Studies, at Sydney College of the Arts.

Through the perspective of her Indigenous Cook Island and Anglo-Saxon heritage, Hogg utilises installations as a visual representation of the ongoing issues within the Pacific islands and Indigenous cultures in the Southern Hemisphere.

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Milk Acid

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Darling

Happy Birthday

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Anna
Tago

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Causality

The Maths Problem

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