Week 5 - Pluralism and the Treat of Waitangi

Week 5 - Pluralism and the Treat of Waitangi

Pluralism and the Treaty of Waitangi

In teaching week 5 you will discuss pluralism and the Treaty of Waitangi in your tutorials.
Use this discussion, the notes in your ALVC book and the internet to respond to the following
questions;

1. Define the term 'pluralism' using APA referencing.

Pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. the cultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cultures. inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders. ideologies, abilities,ages, religions,economic status and educational levels is valued. pluralism honours differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities( ref ALVC resource book 2011)

2. How would you describe New Zealand's current dominant culture?

The culture of New Zealand is largely inherited from English and European custom, interwoven with Maori and Polynesian tradition. An isolated Pacific Island nation, New Zealand was comparatively recently settled by humans. Initially Māori only, then bicultural with colonial and rural values, now New Zealand is a cosmopolitan culture that reflects its changing demographics, is conscious of the natural environment, and is an educated, developed Western society.

Māori culture has predominated for most of New Zealand's history of human habitation. Māori voyagers reached the islands of New Zealand some time before 1300, though exact dates are uncertain. Over the ensuing centuries of Māori expansion and settlement, Māori culture diverged from its Polynesian roots. Māori established separate tribes, built fortified villages (Pā), hunted and fished, traded commodities, developed agriculture, arts and weaponry, and kept a detailed oral history. Regular European contact began approximately 200 years ago, and British immigration proceeded rapidly during the nineteenth century.

3. Before 1840, what was New Zealand's dominant culture?

New Zealand pre-1840

The Māori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) are descendants of Polynesian peoples who had arrived by 1300 AD. There is debate over the precise date and the number of vessels, but Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand refers to ocean-going waka (canoes) having journeyed during the 1200s from east Polynesia to land on New Zealand’s coast. Fifty years after Captain James Cook’s arrival in 1769 less than 200 Europeans had settled in New Zealand, whereas there were around 100,000 Māori. As early as 1792, whalers arrived as temporary visitors, and the first mission station was set up by Samuel Marsden after his arrival under the auspices of the Anglican Church Missionary Society in 1814. During the late 1820s the number of non-Māori living in New Zealand began to increase, and by 1839 totalled about 2,000 (Māori numbered about 100,000). Two-thirds lived in the North Island with a large majority being single men. An estimated 90 percent were of British background and of these almost seven in ten were English. 

4. How does the Treaty of Waitangi relate to us all as artists and designers working
in New Zealand?

They artists and designer who design and create the art work is all about New Zealand because they live and working in this country they know the history about New Zealand to related the art works. so that the history is very import part to effect the work they had made. 

5. How can globalization be seen as having a negative effect on regional diversity in New Zealand in particular?

Hard to discuss about, should increase import and export with other country can be globalization.also Labour Market Trends and Globalization's Impact on Them.

Globalization is the tendency of businesses, technologies, or philosophies to spread throughtout the world, or the process of making this happen. the global economy is sometimes referred to as a globality, characterized as a totally interconnected marketplace, unhampered by time zones or national boundaries.

6. Shane Cotton's paintings are said to examine the cultural landscape. Research Cotton's work 'Welcome'(2004) and 'Forked Tongue' (2011) to analyze what he is saying about colonialization and the Treaty of Waitangi. 

 

'Welcome' (2004) Shane Cotton 

http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/work/52293/shane-cotton-welcome.aspx

 

  

        

 

'Forked Tongue'(2011) Shane Cotton

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/shane-cotton-paintings-examine-cultural-landscape-126412

Art work above may of the Maori and Pakeha characters discuss the impoact of the Treaty of Waitangi, their ambivalence about concepts of landownership and the nation of two cultures living in the one land. is is something of this ambivalence about the land and the cultural landscape of New Zealand which is also at the heart of Shance Cotton's art. and i think all the works in the exhibition seem aged and fractured with an almost medieval feel to them. however, they also contain images which seem to provide hope with the images of natural images and lines which trace over these them suggesting links to the past and the future.

7. Tony Albert's installation 'Sorry' (2008) reflect the effects of colonization on the aboriginal people of Australia. Research the work and comment on what Albert is communicating through his work, and what he is referring to. Describe the materials that Albert uses on this installation and say what he hopes his work can achieve. Define the term 'kitsch'.

13 February 2008 is an historic date etched into Australia’s national memory. On this day, Australia witnessed one of its most overtly optimistic displays of unity and national pride, when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to Indigenous Australians. It was a day when, in the eyes of many, the country grew up.

Here, Tony Albert has captured this outpouring of emotion. He introduces us to a forest of faces, each sharing elements of history with those stolen from their people, land and culture. Each represents a false identity, manufactured black faces made to fit white society.

The artist also revels in the sense of irony in the work, with the impetus of such a momentous and joyous event being an apology. On yet another level, Albert presents us simply with a word — bold letters on a wall — indicative of an Indigenous Australian response to the apology. While it was an important symbolic gesture, many Indigenous Australians are waiting to see real change within society before fully accepting the Prime Minister’s apology and speech as more than words.

8. Explain how the work of both artists relates to pluralism.

Both artists Shane Cotton and Tony Albert art works relate to pluralism as Shane Cotton's art work refers to New Zealand culture and history and Tony Albert's art works SORRY apologies as above on 2008. world must be equal!!! 

 

 

Reference: ALVC resource book 2011

http://qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/tony_albert

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