KAUPAPA | ABOUT

Uhia, uhia ko waikauri o roto. He wai uru, he wai puta, he wai tawhito ka tō, ka tō e.

He korowai i whakamarutia mo āke tonu atu. He kamu tawhito. Whakapūrikotia te kiri kia whakangungu, kia whakahono, kia maumaharatia ko wai tātou. Ēnei kōiwi me ngā mātātoka o te tangata, i kōwaiwaitia i runga i te tawhitotanga o te tangata. Tukua mai ngā pūmaharatanga kia whakaora ai tātou i tēnei wā me nga wā o mua. Ahakoa te aha, inā tātou e ngaro ana, ko te toto me te auraki ka niu i a tātou i te ao kikokiko. Ko te tāniko tēnā e ranga ai te tira.

WAI TAWHITO reveals the fluid rhythm of our whakapapa. Our bodies are constantly communicating between beginnings and endings, holding an immortal key to who we are. The nervous system is our internal ecosystem, a living network that requires care and balance for us to truly thrive. WAI TAWHITO invites us into a world based on a natural system, an ecosystem, a symbiotic relationship of what keeps us, pre-dates us, but also makes us exist beyond the forms of time. 

Part of a series of acknowledgement stories. Waitaketake being the ending of its seed and Wai Tawhito one tree root backwards, or forwards – however you may see time. Directed and created by Tūrongo Collective’s Mierewai & Te Wehi Kore Karena & channeled by Te Whānau Āio.

NGĀ TĀNGATA | CREATIVES

Director/Writer/Performer — Mierewai Grant-Koria
Director/Performer — Te Wehi Kore Karena Grant-Koria
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Zahara Maevaga Grant-Koria
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Ke’arn Peters
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Huia King
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Tane Tangaroa
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Hine Keira Jackson Shaw
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Ngarimu Wyatt
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Hemi Karaka
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Tuakoi Ōhia
Kaiwhakaari | Performer — Wikitoria Tuiavi’i
Kaimahi | Crew — Lomina Araitia
Kaimahi | Crew — Vaiari Ivirangi
Kaimahi | Crew — Salome Kelsch
Kaimahi | Crew — Mikhaela Grant