Takatāpui

Daley Rangi (WA)

Takatāpui is an expansive performance work unearthing the transgenerational and collective trauma of colonisation, and the relentless journey to reclaiming sovereignty of body, mind and soul.

Daley Rangi (Te Āti Awa) is an eclectic, award-winning multidisciplinary artist. Raised on Whadjuk Noongar boodja, Daley was born in Aotearoa, with Māori whakapapa. They are neurodiverse and genderqueer, and use these lenses to explore the outer limits of humanity, generating unpredictable and uncomfortable works in a celebration of chaos, queerness and decolonisation.

Working from a deeply personal text, Daley is exploring what it means to be a Takatāpui, a queer Māori human, and what it takes to move through the world in their body, in a grounded, revealing work.

Creative Team: Creator and Performer – Daley Rangi; Video Art Director and Editor – Elham Haakansson-Eshraghian; Video Art Cinematographer – Elliott Nieves

This project is supported by Moogahlin Performing Arts, pvi collective, PICA, and Performance Space.
Image: Daniel James Grant

Published on

4 September

Live+Local

Readings/artists-in-conversation (with Mother’s Blood)
Friday September 25 at 7pm

Adhocracy In Conversation panel: Art-making, activism and lived experience: the complexities and intersections
Friday September 25 at 8pm

Residency Outcome

The team spent a day brainstorming and story-boarding a very short film concept, as a location was scouted. Being in Boorloo (Perth), there was freedom to go out and about, albeit safely, and we worked in an isolate beach location for the second day, filming a one-shot which makes up the left channel, and pick-ups for the right channel. The work was then edited into its wonderful, final form, with back and forth feedback and changes until the end of the last day. The poem was also written as a response to an incident which occurred one of the days as Daley was out in the CBD. The final work is a gorgeous (4K quality!) video artwork in response to the major themes of queerness before colonisation, and how one might reclaim their own sovereignty of body, mind, and soul. It almost acts as a gateway (or even a trailer) to the major work I’m developing through multiple avenues. How do you feel viewing it, what does it stir up within you? Do you feel like you’ve got some home truths you have to dig up for yourself?

 

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