Suzanne Tamaki
Suzanne Tamaki (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tūhoe) is an artist and social provocateur. Working across fashion, photography and moving image, she creates visual narratives that respond to cultural-politics in Aotearoa. Her works often investigate the nature of indigenous feminisms in the South Pacific, challenging the colonial gaze. Likewise, her works also critique Western ideas of nationhood within a bi-cultural nation.
Suzanne Tamaki on CIRCUIT · 5 works
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Five: Plastic Māori (2020)
Manu the plastic Māori doll draws our attention to the cultural appropriation of Māori culture and taonga.
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Four: Good Golly (2020)
A daily episode of TAONGA from AOTEAROA telling you how it is and disrupting the narrative. If you don't like it, change the channel.
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode One: Statue bro (gov grey) (2020)
A vandalised colonial war veteran boasts of his successes as Governor General following the Taranaki war and Waikato Tainui invasion.
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Three: Statue bro (gov ham) (2020)
The statue of John Hamilton, who drove Waikato Māori off their land for settler occupation, speaks to the camera.
Writing & podcasts featuring Suzanne Tamaki
Suzanne Tamaki
Suzanne Tamaki
(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this first interview, Suzanne Tamaki discusses a new suite of works made in response to Black Lives Matter.
CIRCUIT projects featuring Suzanne Tamaki
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CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022
Six works speaking to the present through archives, tourist souvenirs, familial legacies and pandemic histories.