On Returning to the Sea: Towards Belonging Through Land, Language, & Tactile Storytelling

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aut.embargoNoen_NZ
aut.thirdpc.containsYesen_NZ
aut.thirdpc.permissionYesen_NZ
dc.contributor.advisorRedmond, Monique
dc.contributor.advisorJansen, Monique
dc.contributor.authorWalker, Arielle
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-01T01:27:55Z
dc.date.available2020-10-01T01:27:55Z
dc.date.copyright2020
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2020-09-30T05:00:42Z
dc.description.abstractStories are intrinsically connected to acts of making with fibre. Customary knowledge is passed down in stories, songs, conversations held over the extraction of muka, the spinning of wool, the weaving of harakeke, the waulking of tweed: narratives woven into the fibre, textiles and text in one. These shared histories of craft and language tie cultural memories and communities together and are irrevocably bound to cultural identity. Through systematic colonisation, migration, and the industrialisation of making, stories and craft traditions have been altered, shifted, and lost over time. I seek to reconnect with these taonga through On returning to the sea. My art practice is positioned in the spaces that have formed through the interweaving of language and craft, engaging hand-crafted textiles, poetic writing, drawing, lens-based media, being-in-place, and non-linear narrative as methods of making. I reference lines of my tūpuna wāhine – female ancestors – and look towards my ancestral homelands. Embedded in indigenous methodologies – whakapapa, whatuora, pūrākau – this research explores how cross-disciplinary, process-driven, relational practices might enable new relationships to form with these traditions and homes. By looking to the past, returning to the waters from which we came, we can untangle the threads that bind us to our traditions; and in the act of re-weaving, find new pathways to reciprocal belonging.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/13696
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectAncestral practicesen_NZ
dc.subjectStorytellingen_NZ
dc.subjectTextilesen_NZ
dc.subjectCraften_NZ
dc.subjectLanguageen_NZ
dc.subjectWhenuaen_NZ
dc.subjectWhakapapaen_NZ
dc.subjectWhatuoraen_NZ
dc.subjectPūrākauen_NZ
dc.subjectIndigenous methodologiesen_NZ
dc.subjectTūpuna wāhineen_NZ
dc.subjectTaranakien_NZ
dc.subjectScotlanden_NZ
dc.subjectIrelanden_NZ
dc.subjectShetlanden_NZ
dc.subjectSettler-indigenousen_NZ
dc.subjectTextile poeticsen_NZ
dc.subjectArt practiceen_NZ
dc.subjectPoetryen_NZ
dc.titleOn Returning to the Sea: Towards Belonging Through Land, Language, & Tactile Storytellingen_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Visual Artsen_NZ
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