Lailani Kake is a lecturer at M.I.T her area of art is in video instillation. Her art can contain a very long process from start till finish as in some of her work it was over a year before she started to film. In my opinion Kake is a very passionate artist she also says that she does what she does for the love of it and not for the money.

some of her influences come from such artist as Merata mita, Ron Crocombe, Epeli Hau,ofo, and Sir Peter Buck-Te Rangi Hiroa

Kake art mainly revolves around documentation and experimentation. In my opinion Her first art piece 'Ariki' as experimental. The idea for Ariki was created from Kakes thoughts of the Maori word (tamariki) as it mean children or can be translated as god-child. As she looked at her son she thought about the word and wondered what god-child he would be. She come to the conclusion Tangaroa- god of the sea. She used her son as the character in the film having him move around and spinning around in water gracefully and with a maori karakia and a cookisland waiata being played in the background which created a ambients, spiritual and god like feeling and visual.

Kake has a strong sense of being maori with her whanau being very in touch with maori tikanga and her dad being a strong maori figure in her whanau. She is very in touch with her cookIsland side with her mum being cookIsland American. Her film Tinorangatiratanga is a very deep and emotional film about her dad were she documents him receiving his moko which is a very special and proud moment. Then it goes on to her dad fulling ill with a stroke and then passing away.

Filming some very power and unique moments in the process of the tangi, through this she learnt and realized how many others have a piece of her farther with them and the importance of waiata in his life. With every part of his life being fulled with waiata the last piece of the film has images of him through his life with himself singing Tangi a te ruru which is a song about bringing or wishing someone back which to me was deep and created even more emotion to the film.

Kake also experiments with language using text in amongst patterns.

Ad in her piece Nga hau e wha she works on the female perspective of there body. she talks to many women about getting check ups also about being naked and encountering nude people in a non sexual sense. Each women represents 4 different life and life style. the hole instillation was shot in 1 day.

On display at Te Tuhi was a large scale size photo by Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune of a house completely covered in ice. For the photo there was a lot of work that went into it before taking the photograph. they used Hollywood set up lighting even in the far ground. the context behind the art was a series of things from global change, urban planing, mortgage problems and increase of empty houses in Detroit due to these changes in the area. The house in the photo was covered in water continuously for 30 days in winter to create this effect.