Week 8: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Art & Design
ZOOM SESSION
What time and when: 2:45pm - 5pm on the 19th of September 2022
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Resource for the week Guarding the Family Silver (NZ on Screen), a documentary presented by Moana Maniapoto (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa)
During her travel around Europe with her band, she was told that she would be threatened to be sued for her name 'Moana' because it is a trademark in Germany. But Scotty Morrison (Te Arawa), a Māori Language Lecturer, spoke of the significance of the name Moana as it has a whakapapa all the way back to the very first Māori female, Hineahuone, all way down to her descendent Hinemoana who became the main manifestation of the ocean. There was so much control from a country so far from New Zealand, you could name a trade, but for just the name of a person can be considered a copyright and worth to be sued. Even considering the sound and smell as a trademark (most likely referring to music and perfumes). Squeezing Māori laws with English laws, it is still adapting to English laws. And in English law turning Māori tradition into intellectual property.
In copyright, there is an IP system (Intellectual property) which is involved with copyright and patent. A patent being the first person who comes up with the product. Which they will have an ownership over these products they come up with on the market in the industry.
What I think is a good example of this from the documentary, the European gaming industry they mentioned. When I first watched a clip of the game, I fought it an asian game, because the main character's fighting style is like a samurai until I saw the poster of the character who turns out to be Māori with unbalanced tā moko design. They showed their Māori friends and asked them to write a list of things they shouldn't do with a Māori character and environment. But when they did write the list, they refused to do the changes.
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In zoom notes:
- Māori have ownership, but it might be in a different term, and the European point of view doesn't see what Māori regards to have value to have ownership.
- monetary gain
- difference in view of ownership from different countries
- haka is being commercialized
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INDEPENDENT STUDY
Reflection upon the reading in week 7 (Taonga Works and intellectual property)
After watching the resource, I noticed there are similarities and differences between copyright and trademark. Trademarks are more specific. Copyright determines what rights people have over the original work, while trademark is designed to protect the properties and products from companies.
Reference: Trademark vs copyright: what's the difference? British Business Back (n.d.) Trademark vs copyright: what’s the difference? | Start Up Loans (accessed 20 September 2022)
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My topic (research): Whakapapa
Whakapapa is explained to be a taxonomic (Classification of things) framework and unknown phenomena in the material and spiritual worlds. Whakapapa preserves mythology, legends, history, knowledge, tikanga, philosophies and spirituality to be passed down generations as the core of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). Whakapapa is widely known meaning is 'genealogy', even in Te Ao Māori. However, whakapapa has different terms. Whakamoe(includes intermarriages in the lines); Taotahi(Names of lines without their counterpart); The usual term Tararere(a single line of descent); tāhū(ridgepole of the house); Whakapiri (establish connections); tātai hikohiko(to emphasize the most important ancestor). Most of these terms are referred to any line (iwi, marriage, idividuals, etc) in the Māori genealogy. But Whakapiri identifies the names of significant figures, iwi or hāpū, and it's also a term to refer to revoke (recalling) important histories. In te ao Māori it is most likely referring to tribal alliances through marriage and vary between tribes.
Reference: Rāwiri Taonui, 'Whakapapa – genealogy - What is whakapapa?', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/whakapapa-genealogy/page-1 (accessed 20 September 2022)
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GROUP SESSION
Time and when: 12:30pm - 3pm, 21st of September 2022
Where: Tussock Cafe
With whom: Micah and Nesi
Absent: Ferina
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We focused on how we were doing our component. We haven't finished our Mind map yet because we thought it would be interesting to have a mannequin dressed in pieces from our cultures but couldn't identify what will be the purpose of the tool. So, we changed our visual form for an installation, while Micah was researching whakapapa, he liked a little description about it. "The Process of laying one thing upon another". So, the installation we are making is a tower of layers made out of pizza boxes decorated by what represents significant stories in our lives that we could identify as a whakapapa and stack them based on the timeline. Bricks from queer history (which is significant to Micah) as the foundation. And I added website to support the installation for it to make senses by adding pop-up descriptions for each layer.
We made a list of what to do before the next group session on the 28th of September.
Confirm concepts of 6 layers (3 at the least)
3 name suggestions for the art piece
A date attached to each layer, so we know what order to put them in