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The TeamPaul Tapsell (Te Arawa/Ngati Raukawa): Exhibition Curator / Tumuaki (Director Maori) – Tamaki Paenga Hira/Auckland Museum With the assistance of a Marsden Fund, Paul has been working for more than 4 years on the research, writing and development of the Ko Tawa exhibition since being employed as Tumuaki in 2000. He comes from a curatorial background (Rotorua Museum 1990-1994) and completed studies at Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford (1995-1998). Paul’s goal is to challenge conventional ways of telling history by activating taonga-related narratives as remembered by the descendants themselves.
Award winning photographer Krzysztof Pfieffer has published many photography books around the world. As Auckland Museums resident photographer he was a key team member, photographing all of the images that have subsequently been used within the exhibition multimedia, the book, the film and as the artwork for the CD - Te Whiri.
Jade is a scholarship recipient of the Marsden research team and has assisted the project both as a writer and a guide. She is currently completing her doctoral studies at University of Canterbury after receiving her Masters at Te Wananga o Awanuiarangi.
Toki was our guide on Hikoi 3 when we ventured into the Urewera high country to engage with Te Kooti’s people, Ngai Tuhoe. Before taking a post at Awanuiarangi Toki was a senior lecturer at University of Auckland and then an assistant professor at Univerisity of Hawai‘i.
Rangiiria joined the Museum’s Maori Values Team in 2004 and facilitated two of our hikoi, in particular acting as our guide o Hikoi 4 when we visited her Tuwharetoa people. She was our key taonga puoro musician and co-producer of the album Te Whiri.
Don was one of our elders who guided us to little known sites of major significance to Te Arawa. Although in his 80s us young ones struggled to keep pace both physically and intellectually as he walked and talked (often in Maori) the landscapes of Rotorua and beyond as once retold to him by our Arawa elders when he was a young man.
Murray brought to the team his wealth of experience, personal contacts and sense of humour when we ventured into remotes regions like Te Urewera and Te Reinga. He continues to provide guidance as Ko Tawa is now being prepared to travel.
Sean (BSc) worked as exhibition media creative producer throughout the Ko Tawa project and travelled on three of the four hikoi, providing camera and sound assistance. He was part of the key creative team that refined the exhibition design, and guided the development of all the multimedia and technology elements of the exhibition.
Special mention to Merata Kawharu (Ngati Whatua) and Ron Crosby for research assistance; Max Riksen and exhibition team of Kelly Bewley (Te Ati Awa), Stephen Brookbanks and Heath King; Design team of Nick Eagles & Hannah Kerr; and not least Tamaki Paenga Hira Maori Values Team including Kataraina Jehly (Te Arawa) and Awhina Rawiri (Ngati Whatua) for curatorial support and data base researching; and Nicola Railton (Te Tai Tokerau) for administrative and coordinating support.
Mike Hennessy (BSc / MCPA) produced and directed all of the multimedia and video elements for the exhibition. He filmed and recorded the interviews on all four of the key hikoi, as well as subsequent separate interviews. He produced and directed the exhibition film, Echoes From Our Ancestral Landscapes, and executive produced the album Te Whiri. |
