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Join artists Tihikura Hohaia, Alex Monteith and Maree Sheehan as they introduce their major new project Whiria ko te iwi tuna.
Together, the artists will speak to the development of their collaborative relationship and the process of gathering images and field recordings over many years; ongoing legislative failures which undermine efforts to enact kaitiakitanga; and the project’s ambition to amplify the submerged voices of the beings who inhabit this manga, thereby recognising their sovereignty.
Through immersive visual and sonic storytelling, Whiria ko te iwi tuna gives form to the underwater lifeworlds of Te Whanganui—a manga in the rohe of Ngāti Moeahu, which meets Te Moana-taapokopoko-a-Tāwhaki near the western-most point of Taranaki. Focussing on the ngutuawa—the last 100-meters of the manga before it meets the sea—this body of water experiences the cumulative impacts of more than a century and a half of settler-colonial land and water mismanagement.
Read more about the exhibition here: Toiaa Taiao: Whiria ko te iwi tuna