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 |