Celebrate music from across the Pacific and enjoy a playlist curated by contemporary artist Christopher Ulutupu.
On display in Art of the Pacific: From the NGV Collection, Christopher Ulutupu’s The Fall, is a two-channel video installation that explores what endures in the wake of chaos, instability and change. With a background in film and theatre, sound plays a crucial role in Christopher’s performative moving images works. Integrating a diverse range of sources, from pop songs to 1970s Samoan love songs, his practice explores music’s capacity to transmit across diasporic, cultural and intergenerational contexts.
About the artist
Christopher Ulutupu is a contemporary artist of Samoan, Niuean and German descent. Born in 1987, he lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington. Christopher uses the conventions of cinematic storytelling to interrogate the relationships between landscape and indigenous identities. He employs a cast of actors consisting almost entirely of friends and family to produce vibrant video-based works.
This playlist is apart of NGV Pacific Community Day. Come and celebrate the creativity and diversity of Victoria’s Pasifika community with a vibrant day of festivities showcasing Pasifika art, culture and community.