9 August 2013
Launches
new trilingual book featuring Musqueam alongside Māori and
English
Featuring photographs by Krzysztof
Pfeiffer taken over a five-year period, and curated by Paul Tapsell and Merata
Kawharu, Te Ara is a visual survey of leadership in the Māori world – past, present and
future. It premiered in Poland in 2010 and has since shown at major museums in
the UK and Germany.
The exhibition is being hosted by the
Musqueam Indian Band, the First Peoples of the Vancouver area, and is showing at
the Musqueam Gallery in the British Columbian capital.
Accompanying the opening
was the launch of the third edition of the exhibition book. Te Ara features photographs from the
exhibition with extended text by Paul Tapsell reviewing leadership and challenges for Māori today.
The book is believed to
be the first featuring both Canadian and New Zealand indigenous languages, with
a landmark Musqueam translation – one of very few texts in the language –
alongside Te Reo Māori and English. Copies are available in Canada and
New Zealand.
"Our conversation is indigenous to indigenous with the
Musqueam, but it is a story to which everyone is invited to come along and
listen in," said Tapsell, who is visiting Vancouver.
Te Ara: Māori Pathways of Leadership
will be at the Musqueam Gallery, 4000 Musqueam Avenue, Vancouver, until 28
February 2014.
Professor
Paul Tapsell and Associate Professor Merata Kawharu teach in the Māori Studies department at the University of Otago,
Dunedin; Krzysztof Pfeiffer is an internationally recognised photographer based
in Auckland who has contributed to more than 35 books.
Te Ara: Māori Pathways of
Leadership
Release Date: 9 August 2013 | ISBN:
978-1-877514-60-9 | RRP $21.99
Paperback, 210 x 297 mm landscape, 32 pages, colour
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