Statement

This year in our creativity class was fun and diffrent. I'm my work as a visual artist student I never liked or embrace my culture in my work it just feels too cliche. In our creativity group this year it was diffrent I did some in new and got to express and embrace my culture through our work. I have learnt alot from my group, we were a group of full Samoan but we wereally all different we all had diffrent knowledge and idea of what our cultural is about, with the fact that we didn't really have much knowledge about samoa or her cultural I would see my group as a bunch of plastick Samoan but we didn't see that as something negative because we made that as our strength. We all put in our knowledge and ideas of what costume of the tatau might be with a help of research and we came up with an idea. What I really liked and enjoyed this year about creativity was that we got explore diffrent culture and how amizingly diffrent they are, from myths to keeping different culture alive through western influence. What I didn't find intresting in creativity this year was that we could've had more time to work with our group because we didn't have enough time to have aa dress rehearsal and it made us worried for our final presentation but over all creativity this year was great. Next year in creativity I would like to be more opened minded to diffrent ideas I want to do something completely diffrent from what we did this year I want to work with diffrent people and mix and build ideas with diffrent artist.

NEUROFYN

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NEUROFYN

Song 

We started our practice with our song, it was hard because the song was all in Samoan and it was a bit of a tongue twist and a struggle, we practice as a group twice a week.

 Our costume 

 We had the men tatau drawn on the boys with a vivid, the drawing were not acuter drawing of a tatau.
 

We also draw the tatau on the girls with vivid, because in the song the girls were originally tatted first until the the song changed and the men get the tatau now.   

We used the siapo as our main clothing costume because we wanted to stick to something that is strong with in our culture. 

We also used glow paint to because we wanted to create a spiritual and ghastly fell to our performance 

    

Fassion

Task

Think of a piece of clothing or jewellery that is important to you because it has memories or emotions attached to it. Discuss it with your partner and describe the clothing/jewellery using the structure printed on the sheet. Then try turning your piece of writing into a pantoum.

 The most important piece of jewelry that is important to me was a ring from my mum on my 18 birthday. I believe that the ring is a sing of love that my parents have for me, how shows me that I'm precious and i mean alot to them.

Clothes

Indigenity

Definition - Indigenous people (or first peoples) are defined international or national legislation as having a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory and their cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations that are often politically dominant.

  Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus took six years to make.

 

Wayne Youle, Sir, you dropped your hat, acrylic on paint, 2012 |

Artist: Wayne Youle
Sir, you dropped your hat, 2012- acrylic on paint 95 x 180mm
- aboriginals
- red dots could symbolize diseases carried by the Europeans
- the lost generation

Note: Taking cultural objects and placing them in a wrong place
“Rihanna got a traditional Maori tattoo and then covered it with a hindu design.
- disrespectful
- questioning why she got it in the first place

Vee, 2010- shrunken heads
- heads of famous chiefs when they died they preserve the heads
- when the colonists invaded NZ they traded/sold their heads to the British

Note: “Museum Red” carvings painted red originally used in the wrong way and now its become right.

Shane Cotton, Whakapiri atu te whenua, oil on canvas, 1993 |

Indigeneity

 Djuki Mala- community performance
- performed on Australia’s Got Talent, comedy festivals
- Zorba the Greek Yolngu style (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-MucVWo-Pw)- Djuki Mala 2014 Promo (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfuZ8bTHEE)- “Dance is in our blood, it’s the rhythm of our ancestors”
- disrespectful/hilarious
- contemporary has made it okay

ABC’s Black Comedy- A White Fulla’s Guide to Black Comedy (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul6Dmm922w8)- racist - “white dressing up as black people protesting”
- ABC Black Comedy BLAKFORCE (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ8iAjhiJNk)- Police Ten 7 mockery - intruding into a black home?
- husband charged for not being black, for not eating KFC, and other scenarios
- wife rages at her husband for not telling her that he hasn’t been eating it
- mostly Maori and Polynesians
- subconsciously raising awareness and bringing understanding, slang?
- Meet the Tiddas (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_lQBKbnUGs)

Tiny Toones Cambodia- started by KK (Krazy Kat)
- was involved in gang life
- deported to Cambodia
- changed his life by teaching kids how to breakdance
- Tiny Toones A Fresh Start (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qhgBNlYlNc)- met a kid named Fresh" - he wore tennis shoes, tucked in shirt looking real “fresh” how he got the name
- KK plays the parent role since there is no one who can
- pass a kid to the next kid -> next generation
- “every dance teacher started as a student” - KK

Breakdance Project Uganda- Bouncing Cats - Breakdance Project Uganda (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbF6UPmVhJA)- started up by Abraham Tekya
- “kids who are experiencing things that they never should of had” - poverty, struggling to survive
- no stereo or music so kids created their own beats
- they don’t have studios or mirrors so they didn’t have the chance to see what they look like dancing but thats how it’s expressive
- bringing their pride through dance

Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- singing traditional african songs
- acapella
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo Homeless Live (youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFQ1TSzdpRA)
- musical heritage
- featured Dolly Parton, The Lion King, Mean Girls, etc…
- using their culture

Indigenty

INDIGENOUS - note taking and activities
activity - pick a slip of paper off the ground remember your lines then match the meaning with the word

Diaspora - A large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have moved out to places all over the world.

Indigenous - are people of the land the original native people of a place (Tanga Te Whenua).

Colonialism - a big group of people that take over a country… takeover.

activity - form a group and discuss one of the poems given to you and how you relate to it
Spoken Word Poem - What is Afakasi? by Grace Taylor

 Grace Taylor is a spoken word poet, teaching artist and youth development worker. She believes in the empowerment of words, in particular through creative manifestations and providing spaces for people to tell their own stories. Grace's poetry ciphers strongly around dialogues about identity, with her believing that the exploration of a sense of belonging is underestimated in many facets of society. Grace is co-founder of the South Auckland Poets Collective and the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Movement.