The Ocean is Calling Me Home: Settler-Indigenous Relationships of Te Moananui a Kiwa
| aut.embargo | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.contains | No | en_NZ |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Jansen, Dieneke | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Robertson, Natalie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Parr, Emily | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-02T01:06:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-02T01:06:01Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2020 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-10-01T07:45:43Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 'The ocean is calling me home: settler-indigenous relationships of Te Moananui a Kiwa' seeks to understand whose waters I come from, what my waka look like, and how I might come to know my stories. Through looking to specific settler-indigenous relationships I descend from, my moving-image research project considers the macrocosm — the web of relationships we are all a part of — and the microcosm — my own relationships with whakapapa, ancestral stories and homelands. Within a paradigm of relationality, my research is guided by whakapapa and storying methodologies emerging from indigenous worldviews. Whakapapa — the placing in layers — offers a filmic language through which to connect relational fragments, while storying is a framework through which to weave these layers together into living narratives. Seeking stories in mountains, burial places, archives, museums, and waters, this research journeys to three ancestral homelands: Tauranga Moana in Aotearoa, Upolu in the Sāmoan Islands, and Tongatapu and Vava’u in the Kingdom of Tonga. Moving-image works traverse seven generations, from Europe to Oceania, through layering video, sound, drawings, and narrative voiceover. Stories unfold across a series of six works, and act as portals to an additional two works. The camera is relational, connecting my ancestors and I through time, as we are tethered by place. Each story links to another, threading loops through space and time, spinning the web of relationships. Against a backdrop of expanding empires, this research untangles questions: How have colonial logics of blood quantum become tools for the dispossession of identity? Who is missing from the archive, and how might I connect more deeply with my ancestors through ritual and ceremony? Whispers, traces, and stories of my tīpuna wāhine coalesce: in gathering and braiding these threads with my own, I honour their lives and strengthen our collective story through moving-image practice. This transformational research project is a haerenga — a journey — of reconnection with whakapapa, with ancestral relationships, and with Te Moananui a Kiwa: the ocean and her islands from which these relationships emerged. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/13699 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Relationality | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Storying | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Whakapapa | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Haerenga | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Archives | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Museums | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Layering | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Colonisation | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Ceremony | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Early encounters | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Land Wars | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Empire expansion | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Ancestral homelands | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Moving-image artwork | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Settler-Indigenous relationships | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Reconnection | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Whatuora | en_NZ |
| dc.title | The Ocean is Calling Me Home: Settler-Indigenous Relationships of Te Moananui a Kiwa | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_NZ |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters Theses | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Visual Arts | en_NZ |