"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 three: Statue bro (gov ham)
#statuebroJohn Hamilton was responsible for driving Waikato Māori off their land for occupation and settlement of Pākehā. In 1864 Kirikiriroa was renamed, Hamilton, in honour of him. His statue was gifted to Hamilton in 2013 before being removed in 2020 by locals due to his symbol of racism and oppression following the Black Lives Matter Movement."
Taonga Talkback TV - Episode Three: Statue bro (gov ham) (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 Two: Miss Tiki (2020)
Iconic Māori taonga Miss Tiki educates us on the pronunciation of Māori words.
Suzanne Tamaki
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.
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.
Related interview
Suzanne Tamaki
Suzanne Tamaki
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.