Mānawatia Takatāpui/Defending Plurality: satellite spaces
Various public spaces around Tauranga, New Zealand, 2021.
Mānawatia Takatāpui/Defending Plurality is an expansive exhibition developed by Auckland-based artist and activist Shannon Novak. Taking a variety of forms across several galleries at Tauranga Art Gallery, as well as selected offsite venues, it foregrounds Novak’s unique dual role as both an acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist and a full-time advocate in the LGBTQI+ community. Assuming the role of both artist and curator, Novak’s exhibition is grounded in a large-scale floor-based installation and a series of distinct transformations of latent areas of Tauranga Art Gallery, each developed to subtly colour the experience of the exhibition.
Stephen Cleland, Director, Tauranga Art Gallery, 2021.
THE KOLLECTIVE
Tokomanawa, Shannon Novak, 2021.
BAYCOURT
Alien Doublet, Eliana Rubashkyn and Shannon Novak, 2021.
The Historic village
Cross Together, Shannon Novak, Paul Darragh, and The Incubator, The Historic Village, Tauranga, New Zealand, 2021.
Our Place Magazine
This magazine became a satellite space (in print and online) for the work Mānawatia Takatāpui/Defending Plurality: Measure by Shannon Novak, 2021.
Bayfair
Tūmanakotanga, Shannon Novak, 2021.
