KAUPAPA | ABOUT

Uhia, uhia ko waikauri e kauria ko ngā tai rua o roto.

Ko wai ka tūhia ko huinga whāioio ki iaia. Whaongia te toto tokotoko o Pukepoto kia matomato te poho o Rūaumoko. Ko te kore, ko te pō, me noho ki a Rikoriko. Kapohia, e moko, ki te korokoro kanokano e.

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 Collectives Mierewai & Te Wehi Kore Karena & channeled by Te Whānau Āio.

NGĀ TĀNGATA | CREATIVES

Director/Writer/Composer, Choreographer — Mierewai Grant-Koria
Director/Stunt coordinator, Weapons Specialist — Te Wehi Kore Karena Grant-Koria
Te Reo Advisor/Stunt Woman, Translator — Huia King
Te Reo Advisor/Stunt Man/Kaitiaki — Ke’arn Peters
Stunt Man/Kaitiaki — Hemi Karaka
Stunt Man/Kaitiaki — Tane Tangaroa
Stunt Woman/Kaitiaki — Wikitoria Tuiavi’i
Stunt Woman/Kaitiaki — Tuakoi Ōhia
Stunt Woman/Kaitiaki — Hine Keira Jackson Shaw
Stunt Man/Kaitiaki — Ngarimu Wyatt
Stunt Woman/Kaitiaki — Zahara Maevaga Grant-Koria
Kaiawhina — Mikhaela Grant
Kaiawhina — Lomina Araitia
Kaimahi | Crew — Vaiari Ivirangi