Book Launch: My throat/a shelter

24 July. Free entry.

Thursday 24 July 2025 
5.30pm
All welcome, no RSVP required

Join us to celebrate the release of this beautiful new pukapuka, My throat/a shelter, with readings from the contributors and some kai. 

Copies can be purchased through our website or in the gallery, and will be available on the night for $30.

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My throat/a shelter is a new publication by The Physics Room. It developed from the 2023 exhibition My throat/a shelter, curated by Amy Weng, with newly commissioned moving-image works by artists Selina Ershadi and James Tapsell-Kururangi. The exhibition was situated in embodied and intangible systems of knowledge, as Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi follow family narratives embedded in oral histories, home videos, material portents and screen histories.

This publication features written contributions by Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta and Amy Weng. Weng’s extended essay expands on her curatorial interest in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee, and brings Tapsell-Kururangi and Ershadi’s work into contact with other writers and theorists to think about intercultural cinema, translation and temporalities. Aoake reflects on the unknown dimensions of parents and tūpuna in relation to Tapsell-Kururangi’s film Homman. Revuelta’s poetic response to Ershadi's two-channel film چشم چشمه elucidates Ershadi’s distinct filmic language across this and previous works.

Accompanied by stills from Ershadi and Tapsell-Kururangi’s films, My throat/a shelter is an incisive document of this significant moving-image exhibition.

My throat/a shelter
Edited by: Amy Weng
Contributors: Hana Pera Aoake, Manon Revuelta, and Amy Weng
Designed by: Shaun Naufahu
Printed: Crucial Colour
Published by The Physics Room
ISBN 978-0-473-71155-9