Te Ara Moana Moves
Ngā Waka Pepeha: ‘Plastic Māori’
Misty
About the work
Ngā Waka Pepeha: the artist, the wayfinder, the journey of self-discovery.
'Plastic Māori': Shame, guilt, colonisation. Reclamation, restoration, respirator.
"Whāia te iti kahurangi ki te tūohu koe me he maunga teitei.
Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain."
Ngā Waka Pepeha 'Plastic Māori' is the rejection of harmful rhetoric, rhetoric designed to shame, whakamā, for the disconnect of whakapapa, whenua, tikanga, te reo. A demonstration to be one's own kaitiaki of one's own whakapapa.
"Kia whakakapi i nga whāwhārua ā ō tātou tūpuna.
Follow in the footsteps of our ancestors"
A performance using traditional and contemporary mahi toi, toikupu (spoken word poetry), taonga pūoro (traditional māori music), raranga (weaving), haka kori (movement), ataata (video) and toi pūeru (wearable art), depicting Misty’s vision of takatāpui futurism. A future of complete freedom, connection and community, where every single person is tapu, taonga, and treated as such.
"He waka eke noa.
A canoe which we are all in with no exception."
MAURI ORA!
About the artist
Misty Frequency
(Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Rauru, Kai Tahu, Scotland)
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Misty Frequency (ia/they/them) is the brainchild of Piripi Mackie (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngā Rauru, Kai Tahu, Scotland), a Takatāpui multidisciplinary artist who merges traditional and contemporary mahi toi to serve as a form of Takatāpui futurism and a koha for their community. In their own practice and as member of the Takatāpui arts collective Utu Ā Matimati, Misty is drawn to the ideas of inclusion, advocacy and celebration of fellow Takatāpui; Misty paints an ethereal scene of safety within their work.
'Ma whero ma pango ka oti ai te mahi' (With red and black the work will be complete)