"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. #history #educateyourself
Episode one: Statue bro (gov grey)
#statuebroA vandalised colonial war veteran boasts of his successes as Governor-general following the Taranaki war and Waikato Tainui invasion. He is responsible for the forceful confiscation of over 3 million acres of Māori land, which was subsequently used to pay for the war. He professes his disregard for Te Tiriti o Waitangi and flaunts his capitalist ideologies and white privileges.”
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode One: Statue bro (gov grey) (2020)
Other works in this series
Suzanne Tamaki
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.
Suzanne Tamaki
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.
Suzanne Tamaki
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Two: Miss Tiki (2020)
Iconic Māori taonga Miss Tiki educates us on the pronunciation of Māori words.
Suzanne Tamaki
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.
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Interview series·(ex)CLAIM
(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.