Ruth Buchanan’s new publication EVACUATION TAPES is now online! A collection of writing that posits the very real paradox of the precarious and staunch (female) body as lived and encountered within society, front and centre. It looks at the ways in which certain life structures draw out or exaggerate the relationship between these forces—the weak, the strong. The collection explicitly folds out from a selection of poems by J. C. Sturm, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant Māori women writers of the twentieth century. Sturm’s poetry is placed in relation to new writing by five women working today: Ruth Buchanan, Anna Gritz, Sarah Hopkinson, Hanahiva Rose, and Sriwhana Spong.
Ruth Buchanan co-organises Uneven Bodies, a weekend long symposium at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 6-8 March as part of the exhibition The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong. Speakers include Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Jenny Harper, Tina Barton, Dr Amber Aranui, Lana Lopesi, and Samoa House Library.
Ruth Buchanan has a major exhibition project, The scene in which I find myself / Or, where does my body belong at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, that engages with the institutions collection and the mechanisms that produced it. The exhibition runs 7 Dec 2019 – 22 Mar 2020. As part of the exhibition Buchanan is co-organising a symposium, Uneven Bodies, on the 6 – 8 Mar 2020. Speakers include Gabi Ncgobo, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Tina Barton, Jenny Harper, and Luke Willis Thompson.
Ruth Buchanan has work in Feminist histories: artists after 2000, at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, from 23 Aug – 17 Nov 2019.
