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Megan Tamati Quennell, MAori Contemporary Art

New Zealand International Arts Festival floor talks series

This talk takes you from the 1960s, to the 1980s and finishes with the contemporary focus Kura kura Ngāi Tahu.
Recorded on Tuesday 26 February 2008.

Part 1 - The 1960s

Works presented during this talk are:
> Kohatu, by Selwyn Muru
> Whiti te ra, by Para Matchitt

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Part 2 - Te Māori - The 1980s

No specific objects from the Traditions part of Toi Te Papa are presented. Here are a few selected items:
> Hei Matau
> Kahu kuri
> Hei Tiki

Works presented during this talk are:
> Ka Awatea, by Emily Karaka
> Mandala 3, by Para Matchitt
> Puketi, by Warren Viscoe

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Part 3 - Kura kura Ngāi Tahu

Works presented during this talk are:
> Sweet Things, by Peter Robinson
> Host, by Peter Robinson
> Lair, by Peter Robinson
> A demure portrait of the artist strip searched: with 11 details of bi-polar disorder, by Jacqueline Fraser
> Hei tiki (female), Ngai Tahu, Christchurch, Banks Peninsula Area (Wari), Okains Bay Museum, by Fiona Pardington
> Hei tiki – Inanga, North Island (toru tekau ma rua), Okains Bay Museum, by Fiona Pardington
> Ornithology store #2, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa from the series ‘The vault’, by Neil Pardington
> Postmortem room #4, from the series ‘The clinic/Te whare o rangiora’, by Neil Pardington
> Asleightofhandmanoeuvringofastillimageintosomethingmoving, by Nathan Pohio

The Kura kura Ngāi Tahu exhibition will be on display until October 2008.

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