#tangatawhenua

[deathhairball]

kaua e whakamā: don't be shy, don't be embarrassed. go forth and make mistakes, they're how we learn. another cool kupu for your day is kīwhakarau - give it a go. I love you so much. kaua e whakamā. he waka eke noa. don't be shy. we're all in this together. we got this. . . . . . . . #māoriartist #takatāpuiartist #irakoreartist #indigenousartists #tangatawhenua #kauaewhakamā #try #dontbeshy #shy #embarrassed #keitepai #allgood #yougotthis #māori #tereomāori #tereo #reo #kākahu #tewikiotereomāori #māorilanguageweek #hewakaekenoa #indigenous #lettering #handlettering #digitallettering #threadless #threadlessartistsshops #kiakahatereo #kiakaha #languages (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPCPt8At2V/?igshid=cc5oq2rrivh6

[temanamusic]

#australiaday Blessing to all our brothers and sisters, Australia has been good to us, Thankyou for the opportunities, support and blessings you have shared with us. #tangatawhenua https://www.instagram.com/p/BtFsJ9tnUmv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=a1srayp59oj3

[iwilecomte]

♢ T A N G A R O A ♢ Tangaroa ara rau - Tangaroa of many paths. Linton Mascord bracing his locks for & board for a cleansing..🏄 #ngarutoa#maorisurfer#aotearoa#cyclonecook#maori#tangatawhenua#nativesurf#tangaroa#tearawa#ngahouewha#surfnz#surf#ekengaru#shaka#maketupies#pohutukawa#chur#1w1 (at Bay of Plenty Region)

[ardn516-harrylowe]

SDL: Can I take a photo of the marae? questions

5. What is meant by ‘a loaded and contestable set of issues connected to the act of photographing in and around marae’?

To me this means that when asking the question “can I take pictures inside a marae,” that there are many cultural and social factors which must be taken into consideration, respected and discussed with the tangatawhenua (people of the land) before such process can be undertaken.

6. What is meant by mauri? Discuss how a photography can carry mauri.

The term mauri refers to the life force carried by living things. When a photograph is taken of something such as a marae it essentially captures the mauri of the space as the photo becomes representative of the ancestry portrayed by the marae.

7. What is mana and why is it an important concept?

Mana is defined as that the spiritual and inherited force of a place, person or thing. This is an important concept as this spiritual force is considered to be sacred and therefore must be portrayed accurately and respectfully within a body of work.

8. What are the different kinds of threshold spaces? How might a photographer transgress these spaces?

The different kind of threshold spaces are conceptual , spiritual and physical. A photographer should transgress these spaces by making sure they have knowledge of the correct protocol and cultural practice within these thresholds and making sure not to overstep them both personally and in the way they craft and portray their work.

[parisvwphotography]

Lisa Reihana has emerged as one of the leading artists in Aotearoa since the 1990s. Working across a range of media – including film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, and photography – her art offers a dramatic and dynamic commentary on Māori history and identity. She translates traditional indigenous concepts and narratives from an urban Māori perspective. She examines various issues such as colonialism, gender, language and place. Myself being of Maori decent, growing up I’ve struggled to keep my Maori ties something I showed to the world. Things like kapa haka at my school wasn’t praised amongst peers but rather something which disturbed assembly. Seeing a female Maori artist who tests culture in a white-washed world is so inspiring to me. Shes a voice for tangatawhenua, and allows a new conversation to be created which hopefully in turn helps create a better Aotearoa. 

[artbyelana]

EUGENE HANSEN & JENNY GILLAM

ARTIST LECTURE

The Thrum of the Tide

Lecture notes:

Barr Cottage - 7 weeks

Whatipu - 40 minute drive from Auckland

Depleted resources - settlers took Kauri from forest then moved onto next place

Sea cave - Te Ana Ru

Settlers supposedly made dance floor out of Kauri wood - purpose of trip/residency was to go looking for Kauri dance floor

Used to be dances every Saturday 

No road access/power. Got there by boats with the changing tides

Tide used to come up to the cave, now there’s 1km of sand banks and dunes until the ocean

No photographic evidence of dance floor

To the cave - 15 min walk from Whatipu Beach

Audio and video logs/surveys of the land

Ambisonic equipment and surround sound = nice way to understand space

Developed work on the walks to and from the cave

Rahui (since 2017?) - Kauri are suffering die back

Were offered to go into Kauri Forest but chose to respect Rahui

Colonial politics

History of interrelationships between tribes

Because cave was tidal they used to hoist dance floor up to the roof - metal of cave roof gave them a point on where to start looking for floor - started digging and probing

Kauri at that time wouldn’t have been left there - repurposed maybe for someone’s Bach

About 5 caves nearby - none of them are burial caves

Got down about 2M and hit something - couldn’t find out what it was because water and sludge/sand kept coming into pipe

Idea - get down to where they think floor was - take seismographs 

Same equipment used for ghost hunting - hunting for the ghosts of the dance floor

Eugene spent 24 hours in cave while taking seismographs 

Noticed at sunset the cave glows gold in sunlight

Clinging to the ‘settler identity’ worried Eugene

Denial of pre colonial history

What go buried under the dance floor? - the Tangatawhenua 

Magical moments of cave - music in cave & sunlight from sunset

Final result - created a 3 x 3m Kauri dance floor that could be hoisted up into the air - under dance floor a 6 hr recording plays, every 5 minutes Ricky’s music plays.

Can’t always hear it but it’s playing

When you stand on the floor you can feel the vibrations from the sound - can’t always hear but you can feel

Physical presence 

Rumbling - seismic subsonic audio

Subtle shift with audio visuals with tide 

Alongside installation they created a publication - included images and what they thought about it

Both wrote text - Eugene wrote in 4 alter egos - Jenny wrote more historically

Used risograph printer at massey to print 

Michael Paramenter and Claire O’Neil will perform 4 of the most popular partner dances of the 19th century on the dance floor. 

Gallery also asked musician to respond to their work

Providing a structure for other people to respond to

Let curators curate the performances

Feel the sound /  bodily

Listening to your surroundings slows you down - makes you observe at a deeper level

Seismograph Recording was 24hrs long but to make it audible it was compressed to 6hrs - ties in nicely with the come and go of the tide

Marking the passage of time

Colonial and pre colonial history - how it all informs each other

Reflection:

I really enjoyed Jenny and Eugene’s lecture. I loved the story behind it and the excitement of discovery. It’s quite a beautiful story, I think it would be quite magical dancing on a kauri floor in the middle of a cave with the ocean lapping outside. The hope that the dance floor is still buried under the sand is quite a nice thought to have. I really like the soundscape that they created using the recording, I particularly like that you can feel the vibrations. I think that physical element gives it another emotional connection, it makes it feel very bodily and alive. 

[kiwiclara]

It was a beautiful, southern day. So we went fishing 😊 🐟 #newzealand #marlboroughsounds #nzwinter #southislandnz #fishing #bluebayou #whanau #tangatawhenua #maori #kiwi (at Anaru, French Pass)

[pimpiknows]

#Ōtara #TangataWhenua #Aotearoa (at Otara, New Zealand)

[illogicallimbs]

Whenua-Utu

If you had a mother who raised you, 

Loved you, 

Made sure you were never hungry, 

Would you take from her without asking? 

Would you carve up her skin

To take what you wanted, 

  The man who strips the skin of his mother 

And reveals her bones; 

To appear as if he has the body of a god. 

But we are nothing other than mortals.

[onenesia]

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how to prep up before a HAKA

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[pimpiknows]

“Turi & Friends”, taken by Samuel Carnell in his Napier studio, 3 December 1894. Posted on He Ao Kotahi - The One World Project Facebook page last week. Mesmerised by these portraits ✨ #TangataWhenua #Aotearoa #ManaWahine