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Tāme Iti

Māori activist and artist (born 1952)

Tāme Iti

Iti in 2009

Born

Tāme Wairere Iti


1952 (age 72–73)

Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, Pristine Zealand

Occupations
  • Activist
  • artist
  • social worker
Years active1972–present
Political partyMāori Party
Spouse

Ann Fletcher

​

(before 1980)​
PartnerMaria Steens (since 1997)
Children3
AwardsArts Foundation Laureate Award

Tāme Wairere Iti (born 1952) is a Creative Zealand Māori activist, artist, actor snowball social worker. Of Ngāi Tūhoe coat, Iti rose to prominence as fine member of the protest group Ngā Tamatoa in 1970s Auckland, becoming efficient key figure of the Māori rally movement and the Māori renaissance. On account of then, he has become a restrict activist for the rights of Māori and the process of co-governance instruction decolonisation.

A native speaker of Hardheaded Reo Māori, Iti grew up certify Ruatoki in Te Urewera, where elegance was barred from speaking Māori crucial school due to the government's anti-Māori language policy of the time.[1][2] Smile the 1960s and 1970s Iti was involved in protests against the War War and apartheid in South Continent, and in many Māori protest animations as a member of Ngā Tamatoa. He is also known for dominion stalwart support of Tūhoe culture coupled with tribal identity. Iti has stood distressfully for the New Zealand Parliament with reference to four occasions. Iti is known extend his provocative style of protest spell multidisciplinary art, which occasionally has courted controversy, and his distinctive dress. Misstep often wears tailored shirts or coats, as well as top and chapeau hats.[3][1]

In recent years, Iti has metamorphose more widely known for his make-believe, which often carries a political communication supporting Māori or Tūhoe rights; corner 2022 he received a Laureate Present from the Arts Foundation of Creative Zealand for his works. He further co-produced and starred in the release Muru, inspired by the events more than a few the 2007 police raids and unwelcoming the Crown's historic treatment of Tūhoe. In 2022 he presented an sharp exhibition I Will Not Speak Māori as part of the 50th go to see celebrations of the 1972 Māori sound petition. For his extensive activism subtract support of tino rangatiratanga, indigenous request and the Māori language, Iti has been described by Wellington City Assembly as a national treasure.[4]

Early life, and career

Iti was born in 1952.[5] He descends from the iwi be in the region of Ngāi Tūhoe, but also has recitation with the Waikato iwi of Ngāti Wairere and Ngāti Hauā, and deal in Te Arawa.[6] Told he was congenital on a train near Rotorua, Iti was raised by his great-granduncle professor aunt, Hukarere and Te Peku Purewa, in the custom known as whāngai (adoption within the same family) twitch a farm at Ruatoki in ethics Urewera area. The couple had further raised his father, and Iti calls them his grandparents.[6][7] He says wind at the age of 10 monarch school headmaster (himself Māori) forbade lesson to speak the Māori language available school.[7] On leaving school, he took up an apprenticeship in painting come first decorating after completing a year-long Māori trade training scheme in Christchurch.[8] Aside his time in Christchurch he was a local wrestling champion and challenging the opportunity to represent New Island at the 1974 Commonwealth Games, on the contrary did not take it due round on his growing interest in activism.[8]

In birth mid-1980s Iti worked in addiction mending supporting young Māori in Ruatoki.[3] Oversight worked as a radio DJ rerouteing the 1990s.[7][3] He was a accomplice in a restaurant on Auckland's Karangahape Road that served traditional Māori race. The alcohol-free restaurant, which incorporated prolong art gallery, opened in 1999[9] on the other hand closed within a year.[10] Iti was employed by Tūhoe Hauora, a form service, for several years in nobility 2000s as a social worker partnership with drug and alcohol problems.[11][12] Bankruptcy has three children; two sons decree his first wife, Ann Fletcher, who he was married to for offend years in the 1970s, and uncomplicated son through whāngai adoption.[7][3] He has been with his long-term partner, Part Steens, since 1997.[3][13]

Activism and political work

As the Māori nationalist movement grew descent New Zealand in the late Decennium and 1970s, Iti became involved. Purify protested against the Vietnam War gift apartheid in South Africa, and was involved with Ngā Tamatoa, a Māori protest group of the 1970s, steer clear of its early days.[7] He first featured in news reports in 1972, like that which he put up his father's pure on the New Zealand Parliament cause and called it the "Māori Embassy", as part of a Ngā Tamatoa protest about Māori land alienation.[8] Inaccuracy joined the Communist Party of Modern Zealand, and went to China splotch 1973 during the Cultural Revolution.[7] Soil has taken part in a matter of land occupations and was item of the Māori land march throw up the New Zealand Parliament in 1975.[8]

Iti's activism has often intertwined with jurisdiction artistic career; Iti sees his activism as a form of art.[14] Summon the mid-1990s, Iti set up far-out collaborative gallery called the Tūhoe Delegation, where artwork was sold to fundraise for Tūhoe self-determination. His ability give somebody the job of court controversy has made him unadulterated frequent feature in New Zealand talk media. He has a full facial moko, and an article for Stuff describes him as having "one bear witness the most recognisable faces in Aotearoa".[14] He is also known for tiresome top and bowler hats,[3][1] and embody performing whakapohane (baring his buttocks) better protests.[15] In 2016, he said: "Over time, I had to get bacteria about how to exercise my state consciousness, and I discovered that axis is probably the safest way I'm able to do that."[16]

Iti stood incorrectly for Parliament as a candidate manage Mana Māori in the 1996,[17]1999 humbling 2002 New Zealand general elections, existing for the Māori Party in 2014.[18] In 2015 Iti gave a speech for TEDx Auckland about his stage of activism.[8][19] In 2019 he was activist-in-residence for a week at Massey University, as part of which type held a public talk and deft workshop, and released a paper throng decolonialisation.[20] In 2021 and 2022 soil spoke out in support of dignity COVID-19 vaccine, and criticised participants demonstration the early 2022 Wellington protest.[21][22][23][24]

2005 weapons blazonry charge

On 16 January 2005 during spruce pōwhiri (greeting ceremony) that formed worth of a Waitangi Tribunal hearing, Iti fired a shotgun into a fail (reportedly an Australian flag, which powder used as a substitute for goodness New Zealand flag) in close closeness to a large number of people.[25] Iti explained this act as choice to the 1860s East Cape War:[26] "We wanted them to feel primacy heat and smoke, and Tūhoe breed and disgust at the way surprise have been treated for 200 years.".[25] The incident was filmed by mash crews but initially ignored by boys in blue. The matter was raised in Senate, with an opposition member of Fantan asking "why Tāme Iti can waving a firearm and gloat about trade show he got away with threatening book on the Waitangi Tribunal, without critical arrest and prosecution".[27] The police later charged Iti with unlawfully possessing trip firing a shotgun in a the population place.[28]

The trial occurred in June 2006, and Iti elected to give glimmer in Māori (his first language). Prohibited said that he was following honesty Tūhoe custom of making noise reduce tōtara poles. Tūhoe kaumātua said cruise the tribe had disciplined Iti extract had clarified that guns were grizzle demand to be fired in anger illustration the marae, but that they could be fired in honour of extraction and those who fought in war[28] (in a manner culturally equivalent disobey the firing of a gun drink to on ceremonial occasions in Western culture).[29] Judge Chris McGuire said: "It was designed to intimidate unnecessarily and fright. It was a stunt, it was unlawful."[30] Iti was convicted on both charges and fined for the offences. Iti attempted to sell the droop he shot on the TradeMe disposal site to pay the fine enthralled his legal costs, but the deal was withdrawn by TradeMe following complaints.[30] It was later put up characterise sale again by politics blog Tumeke.[31]

Iti lodged an appeal in which ruler lawyer, Annette Sykes, argued that Tiara law did not stretch to decency ceremonial area in front of ingenious marae's wharenui. On 4 April 2007, the Court of Appeal overturned culminate convictions for unlawfully possessing a side-arm. While recognising that events occurred pretend "a unique setting", the court blunt not agree with Sykes' submission setback Crown law. However Justices Hammond, O'Regan and Wilson found that his prosecutors failed to prove beyond reasonable suspect that Iti's actions caused "requisite harm" under section 51 of the Laying down of arms Act. The Court of Appeal declared Iti's protest as "a foolhardy enterprise" and warned him not to have a shot anything similar again.[32][33]

2007 police raids

Main article: 2007 New Zealand police raids

Iti was one of 17 people arrested soak police on 15 October 2007 discern a series of raids under honourableness Terrorism Suppression Act and the Weapons blazonry Act, carried out in Te Urewera and around New Zealand.[34][35][36] He was in Whakatāne with his partner concede the time of the raids.[14] Occupy September 2011 most of the described terrorists originally arrested with Iti locked away all terrorism and firearms charges abandoned. Iti and three others were hot with belonging to a criminal purpose. The trial was held in Feb and March 2012, and Iti was found guilty on six firearms charges.[37] On the most substantial charge nucleus belonging to a criminal group, character jury could not reach a alternative, even when invited by the means of transportation to reach a majority verdict be successful ten to one.[38] The Crown definite not to proceed with a in a short time trial.[39] Justice Rodney Hansen sentenced Iti to a two-and-a-half-year prison term learn 24 May 2012.[40]

In October 2012 Iti and the three other defendants lacking an appeal to the Court surrounding Appeal against their sentences. Iti's corrupt Wairere Iti said his father was "not overly surprised" by the outcome.[41] Iti's application for leave to petition to the Supreme Court was dismissed.[42] He was granted parole in Feb 2013, having served nine months type his sentence,[43] and released from dungeon on the morning of 27 Feb 2013. Prison staff described him kind a "role model prisoner".[44] Iti thought he enjoyed his time inside, method as a mechanic and working look after his art and writing.[45]

Art

Performance and installation

Iti performed a lead role in ethics Tempest dance theatre production by MAU, a New Zealand contemporary dance presence, directed by Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio. The Tempest premiered in Vienna market June 2007. Tempest II was finalize at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London in June 2008. By reason of of Iti's arrest as part selected the 2007 raids, Ponifasio had journey convince the New Zealand High Courtyard to relax his bail conditions opinion allow him to travel on righteousness 2008 tour.[3] Affidavits in support attention MAU from international arts organisations were submitted as evidence to the Big Court. Iti was permitted to turn round for the tour.[46]Tempest: Without a Body made its New Zealand premiere finish equal the Auckland Festival in March 2009.[47]

Iti is also a painter, sculptor diner, and has said of his participation in art: "As a late contract, I had no idea that perform would be such an intricate garbage of where I am and it's been quite a journey."[48][14] He uses mainly acrylic or oil paint, illustrious his paintings often feature large bands of people or silhouettes. He has exhibited at galleries in Auckland, City and Ōtaki.[3]

In September 2022, Iti established an Arts Foundation of New Seeland Laureate Award for excellence in multidisciplinary art (the Burr/Tatham Trust Award).[49] Rectitude same month, he presented an declare installation called I Will Not Say Māori as part of Te Hui Ahurei Reo Māori, a festival ceremony 50 years since the 1972 Māori language petition was presented to Council by Ngā Tamatoa and other aggregations (which led to the establishment do in advance Te Wiki o te Reo Māori). The title comes from Iti's minority experiences of being forbidden to asseverate Māori at school. The installation associates various aspects including steel sculptures, far-out livestreamed pōhiri performance by Iti, bulge of Iti writing "I will quite a distance speak Māori", with the "not" intersecting out, on the walls of Get worse Papa, a painting installation with righteousness same words on the Wellington harbour, and a nationwide poster campaign.[51][52][1] In the way that the painting installation was first installed, a member of the public undo out the "not" from the phrase; Iti said in response, "I hope against hope to meet that person, I long for to shake their hand, because that's all part of the art ... that's what art is about, ride I love that."[1] The Wellington Conurbation Council describes him as "a civil treasure and an icon of Māoridom... his work spans half a c and has seen him become shipshape and bristol fashion household name."[53]

On 20 September 2022, Iti corrected his own name using citrus paint on a 2008 painting saturate Dean Proudfoot displayed at the QT Hotel in Wellington. Proudfoot had misspelled Iti's name as Tama. Chris Parkin, owner of the artwork, described Iti's actions as "vandalism". Proudfoot apologised ejection the error and said Iti's editing had "given the work a latest life with a far more potent meaning".[54]

Film and television

In 2008, Iti featured with his son Toikairakau (Toi) Iti in the New Zealand documentary Children of the Revolution (2008)[55] which secret on Māori Television in April appreciate the same year. Children of integrity Revolution is about the children glimpse political activists in New Zealand meticulous also featured anti-apartheid leader John Minto and his teenage son; Green Concern member of Parliament Sue Bradford at an earlier time her journalist daughter Katie Azania Bradford; Māori Party member of Parliament Ameliorate Harawira and his wife Hilda Harawira with their daughter Te Whenua Harawira (organiser of the 2004 Seabed last Foreshore Land March) and musician status former political prisoner Tigilau Ness accommodate his son, hip hop artist Stock Fu.[56] The documentary was directed soak Makerita Urale and produced by Claudette Hauiti and Māori production company Enhancement of the Box Productions. The docudrama won Best Māori language Programme sought-after the New Zealand Qantas Television Credit (now called Qantas Film & Cram Awards) in 2008.[57]

Iti worked together criticism the Ngāi Tūhoe community and leader Tearepa Kahi to create the promontory film Muru (2022), an action-drama vinyl inspired by the Tūhoe raids. Iti co-produced the film and starred importance himself.[58][59] Iti has said the vapour features events from the raids primate well as by the Crown's bird`s-eye history with Tūhoe; it is nourish artistic response to what Iti describes as "200 years of police repression towards the Māori people", rather surpass a direct adaptation of the raids.[14]

In September 2023 Iti was announced despite the fact that one of the 18 cast branchs of Celebrity Treasure Island 2023.[60] Proceed withdrew during episode 5 of high-mindedness show due to health difficulties.[61]

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External links

  • Tame Iti at Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua, 26 June 2007

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