ABSTRACT
The artist Rosanna Raymond is a curator, performer, artist, and lecturer and was a member of the UK-based Polynesian community until she returned to Auckland in 2014. Rosanna is also a published poet, writer and founding member of the SaVAge K'lub, with art works held in museum and private collections around the world. She has had solo exhibitions and made contributions to international collections over this time. Rosanna has collaborated with Divya P. Tolia-Kelly since 2005, in the form of interviews, conversations, joint performances and co-writing, and here talks through the role of representing Polynesian and Maori culture at heritage spaces such as the museum. Their conversation is about affect and heritage, beyond a theory-centred or ethnocentric account. The focus is on the role of affect within the heritage space and the role of emotion in shaping, producing, representing and articulating cultural heritage and values.
