Pokepoke, 2017

Hong Kong 2018
Pokepoke

Mujin-to Production

Video/Film
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For the April 2017, Taguchi was resident in Tāmaki-makau-rau to develop Pokepoke in response to the city. Taguchi employed clay, referring to the legacy of ceramics which is strong in West Auckland, from the formative brickworks and crockery manufacturing industries to thriving studio potters’ communities. Pokepoke – “to knead” in te reo maori – indicates Taguchi’s different approach to the locally-resonant medium, working with clay in its plastic, unfired state for his stop-motion photography over locales including Avondale, New Lynn and the West Coast beaches.