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

https://www.facebook.com/sammy.sailiata/videos/421172298061670/

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.

Pitch

Tatau 

As a group full of Samoans we thought that we would work with something that we are proud of about in our Samoan culture. 

History of the Tatau....

Environmental

task -  images and respond

 “Gateway” - Chris Booth

 “Art and nature have always been important to me. My parents love of nature had a huge impact on me and my three brothers. We grew up on an organic orchard surrounded by native bush bordered by a boulder strewn river. Most weekends we were taken exploring the local coat, river or bush. Our mother, an artist, painted. They encouraged us to use our eyes - to read the land, it’s ecology and human history. A seed was firmly sown” - Chris Booth.

This peace of work was interesting to me, I thought it was beautiful the structure on the way its sculpt is very unique and complicated. This sculpture reminds me of my childhood, as a child growing up in Samoa I was open to the out doors me and my cousins will always go in to the bush and build random things out of tree brunches and rocks.

      

The work is about intelligent explorations of space and present. Combinations of cardboard, tape, boxes, bags, and plastic waste. Her work references the recycling of waste as art.

I was drawn to this work because of the way its been installed, it looks like a pile of junk but a very interesting pile. Its useless materials placed carefully in to their place. The colour pallet of this work also interest me the object with the same colour are put together carefully its like she gave value to object that are seen useless and unwanted

Dance moves

The Reebok, The Roger Rabbit, The Running Man, The Wop, and many others…

Alice Guy-Blache- from secretary to first female director of motion pictures
- the pressure of staying creative
- began her own studio film (1910’s)
- ground-breaking
- first to use plot and colour
- created short films (1-2min)
Kathryn Bielow- from painter to first female Academy Award Winner for Best Director
- not one but many genres
- “The Hurt Locker” - Zero Dark Thirty
- open to change, critique
Katherine Hepburn- Academy Award Winner for Best Actress
- her brother committed suicide, she pretended her brothers birthdate as her own
- “Box Office Poison”
- loaning herself to other movie roles
- always spoke her mind / being who she is
- career span 66 years
- fierce personality
Alison Bechdel- creator of the Bechdel test, originally meant as a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist newspaper
- “Russo Test”?
Actresses in Politics / Activism- Malika Sherwat / Emma Watson / Whoopi Goldberg / Lucy Lawless.
Parris Goebel- dropped out of school at age 14 because it wasn’t working for her
- New Zealand choreographer and dancer
- dance crew: ReQuest
Salt n Pepa- prominent female rap group
- challenging existing biases in the rap industry

Kaupapa

Women's First

Women's First

task - Choose 3 images that you like and relate to from the power point.

 

 This sequence of photographs of a burning shoe was made in 1977 as a challenge to fashion and gender stereotypes. The sequence shows the shoe gradually being burnt down to the sole. In an earlier version, the shoe is taken off and the wearer massages the incisions the shoe has made in her flesh. 

  I think that Alexis work is great, a huge inspiration to young females like my self. I believe that photo is a message saying that women didn’t have to conform to these gender or fashion roles at the expense of pain.

The large, bold artworks of Barbara Kruger assimilate images taken from the deluge of mass media in contemporary society. Pictures and words derived from television, film, newspapers and magazines comprise the media's powerful ability to communicate. Using these same media effects and strategies in a critical way, Kruger creates her own sexual, social and political messages, effectively challenging the stereotypical ways the mass media influences society's notions about gender roles, socials relationships and political issues.

The work Untitled (your body is a battleground), 1989, exemplifies Kruger's interest in addressing and interpreting heated political issues of the moment. Using a silkscreened frontal photograph of a model's face, the artist gives the image additional meaning by dividing the large canvas it occupies into sections from right to left, the image reverses from positive to negative, and from top to bottom, the face is divided into thirds emblazoned with the slogan "Your body is a battleground." Kruger critiques the objectified standard of symmetry applied in modern times to feminine beauty and perpetuated at fever pitch by media and advertising. The composition originally included more text and was designed as a poster for the massive pro-choice march that took place on April 9, 1989, in Washington, D.C.

Untitled (If you’re so successful, why do you feel like a fake), 1987, is a point blank interrogation of a contemporary society motivated by career building, money and the appearance of success and good living. The notion that such a society is unfulfilled and inauthentic is taken as self-evident, and Kruger’s assertive display demands an answer from viewers. Unlike advertising which may ask a question to compel a product purchase, Kruger uses the same technique to compel ethical change and reflection.

http://www.thebroad.org/artist/barbara-kruger#

Goddess

CREATIVE WRITING CLASS

task - 2mins tell your life story one interesting thing and re-write your partners story under 30words include one of the elements… water, earth, fire, and air.
Semira - Just a small town girl cruising on the bumpy roads of life. Moving to Auckland with the motivation and support of her self strength lifting the strengths of others around her.

WOMEN’S FIRSTS - note taking

Hinenuitepo
- Maori/New Zealand
- goddess of Death (before she was the goddess of Dawn)
- fled the world of light and into darkness
- mother to all who have died
- Mauri the trickster over came death by entering inside Hinenuitepo to eat away her heart and crawl out her mouth
- she awoke closed her legs and crushed him
- only death can enter

Pele- Hawaii
- goddess of Volcanoes/Fire
- one of 14 children
- domestic problems (her sister was the goddess of the Sea and Pele seduced her sisters husband and tried to hie from her)
- tutu Pele (madam Pele - respect)
- physical appearance… tall beautiful or old woman accompanied with a white dog… when she is angry she is covered in flames
- known for her passion, anger and jealousy

Nafanua
- Samoa
- goddess of War
- born as a blood clot (abortion or miscarriage)
- father is half man / half eel
- mother is a pair of siamese twins
- they buried Nafanua in the ground and let her grow as a goddess
- she lived in the underworld
- people being enslaved (forced to climb a coconut tree upside down)
- “please save us from this humiliation”
- she killed everyone… a blood bath
- preachified of european people and bringing their God (Jesus)

task - create a response to one of the Goddesses

 Hinenuitepo

PROTECT YOUR HEART,

This is the idea that the Goddess Hinenuitepo conveys.  Hinenuitepo is a strong and a powerful Goddess even though in her myths shes a dark goddess. But I see her as a female who protect her self she will not easily tricked.