A video recording Tahitian writer Titaua Peu‘s stay in Wellington was launched on 3 December.
Titaua describes the explorations she undertook during her residency in Randell Cottage on the historical and cosmological links between Indigenous peoples of Polynesia. She foreshadows her planned dystopian trilogy, beginning with the forthcoming novel Disruptive – a tantalising prospect.
French Cultural Counsellor, François Bockel, shared the first showing of the Embassy’s video at a Randell Cottage writers’ event at the National Library.
Watch Titaua’s video
The occasion also featured the video of 2024 New Zealand writer in residence, Hinemoana Baker, commissioned from Godwit Films. It is accompanied on the website by Hinemoana’s reading of her poem ‘Placard: Te Ahumairangi’.
These recordings are designed as oral history records of the writers – both French and New Zealand – who have made Randell Cottage their home and a base for creative writing, in residencies that free them from the daily pressures of rent and living costs.