Ki te kapu o takau ringa - In the Hollow of my Hand: Abordagens fotográficas baseadas em Wānanga para a representação de lugares
Resumo
Ka matakitaki iho au ki te riu o Waikato
Ano nei hei kapo kau ake maaku;
Ki te kapu o taku ringa,
"Eu olho para o vale de Waikato,
Como se quisesse segurá-lo
No oco de minha mão".
As palavras acima são da maioha (canção-poema) do rei maori Tawhiao, uma representação de seu amor por sua terra natal, Waikato, e pela região conhecida hoje como King Country. Agora imagine uma fotografia em grande escala: um close-up de mãos em concha, segurando um objeto com cuidado. A frase acima informa o projeto de pesquisa atual do professor Tom Roa e do Dr. Rodrigo Hill, intitulado "Te Nehenehenui - The Ancient Enduring Beauty in the Great Forest of the King Country". Com esse projeto ainda em seus estágios iniciais, a equipe de pesquisa apresentará desenvolvimentos de práticas criativas iniciais e em andamento, discussões e ideias sobre a prática da fotografia, wānanga e representação de lugares. O projeto promove o uso de wānanga (fóruns e reuniões de grupos focais por meio dos quais o conhecimento - mātauranga - é discutido e transmitido) e outras práticas reflexivas, envolvendo-se e sendo liderado por mana whenua (guardiões da terra), fornecendo um fio condutor que guiará a construção das imagens fotográficas. A pesquisa funde wānanga, ou seja, Mātauranga Māori (Conhecimento Māori), e a prática da fotografia de maneiras novas, com o objetivo de se afastar e desafiar as principais convenções fotográficas e os modos eurocêntricos de representação de lugares. Roa e Hill entendem wānanga como uma prática fluida de engajamento, que pode ser com mana whenua ou com o taiao - o ambiente - por si só ou com o mana whenua. Essa é a essência da pesquisa Kaupapa Māori.
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