Toi ki roto, toi ki waho = Art in, art out: Breathing through contemporary art practices as rongoā (healing) embedded in kaupapa Māori methodologies
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Ngatai, Anonina Mata
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Master of Creative Practice
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Unitec, Te Pūkenga – New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
Date
2024
Supervisors
Tan, Leon
White, Tanya
Toki, Lynda
White, Tanya
Toki, Lynda
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Masters Thesis
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Aotearoa
New Zealand
Māori families
families
anti-social behaviour
domestic violence
Māori art
art
installation art
art and therapy
family support
kaupapa Māori
autoethnobiographies
New Zealand
Māori families
families
anti-social behaviour
domestic violence
Māori art
art
installation art
art and therapy
family support
kaupapa Māori
autoethnobiographies
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Ngatai, A.M. (2024). Toi ki roto, toi ki waho = Art in, art out: Breathing through contemporary art practices as rongoā (healing) embedded in kaupapa Māori methodologies (Unpublished document submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Practice). Unitec, Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology https://hdl.handle.net/10652/6590
Abstract
RESEARCH QUESTION
What can contemporary art practices contribute to transforming experiences of anti-social behaviour within kāinga?
TUHINGA WHAKARĀPOPOTO (Abstract)
He toi rongoa. He toi kaiao. He toi tairongo.
He toi tuku iho. He toi nō nanahi, nō naiānei mo apōpō.
Art is healing. Art is living. Art is sensory. Art is traditional. Art is contemporary. Art is our history, present and future.
(Whakatāuākī, Tonina Ngatai and Te Waimarie Ngatai-Callaghan, 2023)
As part of a larger conversation about contemporary art, culture and society, I explore a kaupapa Māori approach to the creative process of sculptural installations, investigating its potential for transformation in wellness. The underlying reason for this inquiry is a response to anti-social behaviours within communities that impact the personal space of kāinga. These research findings can lead to new developments in rongoā based on creative practices that promote overall health and well-being from a Māori-centered perspective. This study will employ whakapapa, pūrākau and rongoā as methods of enquiry, alongside those of contemporary art, informed by kaupapa Māori principles. The objective is to create three distinct, but related installation works that align with the research undertaking.
These works are tributes to the art of storytelling - pūrākau. In the realm of kaupapa Māori creative practice, the reclamation and revitalisation of our ancestral narratives are akin to awakening the mana of our tūpuna and breathing life into the whispers of our whenua. Through storytelling, we gather the fragments of our past, weaving them into our traditions and strengthening our identity. Everybody has a story - a narrative of life. Incorporating visual arts, stories of my ancestors and acknowledging the direct relationship to haukāinga weaves together.
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