Aukati : an exhibition report presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Māori Visual Arts at Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa
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2021
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Massey University
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Trigger warning. I speak about sexual violence white supremacy colonisation, intergenerational trauma the ‘old boys club’, NZ educational govt art institutional power imbalances, predatory violence and mental illness. I centre our power and ability to rise, birth and direct our creative spaces, navigate inner worlds, collaborate practices of mana motuhake, no matter what, our bodies, our multidimensional voices back, waters back, land back. Outshining the crumbling system, the embedded trauma lines that fractured us, we stopped giving energy to patterns, of insidious white supremacy, we centred our bodies, OUR LIVES. I called myself home to a body, held hostage for years, Kurawaka, From where we came, Te tara o Hinenuiitepō, Te tau o niho tūhua, Through where we all leave. Matatuhi, I switch out war, rage, centre mana, pleasure, body back.
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Māori Masters Thesis