{"id":80113,"date":"2025-03-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=80113"},"modified":"2025-03-23T06:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T06:03:31","slug":"80113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=80113","title":{"rendered":"Vortrag: Rych\u00e8l Th\u00e9rin Scott: MANA W\u0100HINE M\u0100ORI AND THE MATAAHO COLLECTIVE: The Power of Collectivity and How We Feed Our Roots, 25.03.2025, Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u00d6sterreichisch-S\u00fcdpazifische Gesellschaft (OSPG)<\/strong> (Web)<\/a><\/p>\n

Zeit: 25.03.2025, 18:00 Uhr
\nOrt: Institut f\u00fcr Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie, Univ. Wien, NIG, Universit\u00e4tsstr. 7, 4. Stock<\/p>\n

Indigenous Feminisms are not new. Mana w\u0101hine M\u0101ori envelops concepts of female empowerment, strength and integrity. This lecture discusses the work and practice of M\u0101ori artists Mataaho Collective as a holistic embodying of mana w\u0101hine in action. For many, the idea of feminism might feel like a western notion, but upon analysis it becomes clear that feminist principles are inherent to Maori and other Indigenous cultures. Mana W\u0101hine, meaning female empowerment, strength and integrity, is interwoven in various forms throughout Maori culture and society. When M\u0101ori women act, we are already moving forward from a place of respect and equality within our community. It is the interaction with western and colonial constructs that make us need to rewind and reiterate that our position as women is not suppressed from within our own communities, rather from the constructs and prejudices of the overriding (western, colonial, christian) majority.
\nThe artwork of Mata Aho Collective is firmly based in Te Ao M\u0101ori, and purposefully holds Mana W\u0101hine at the core of the work they produce. In their own words: \u201eMana w\u0101hine, namely the empowerment and integrity of M\u0101ori women, is the m\u0101tauranga M\u0101ori that forms the basis of our work, including processes of research, development, and w\u0101nanga. We employ it as a philosophy through which to view our histories\u201d (Mata Aho Collective, 2018). Taking the process, practice and artistic works of the Mata Aho Collective, and the writings of Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Leonie Pihama, Huia Jahnke and others, this paper will discuss and show how contemporary indigenous art practices operating from a transcultural position can reverberate out and beyond their communities of origin; how indigenous feminisms, such as Mana W\u0101hine are intrinsically different in priority and aim to western feminism, and how decolonised and decentralised thinking is a crucial component to moving beyond essentialist, binary understandings of what contemporary feminism can be in a interconnected world.<\/p>\n

Rych\u00e8l Th\u00e9rin Scott is a M\u0101ori\/J\u00e8rriais artist and researcher based in Vienna. She graduated from the BA Fine Arts: Painting course at Camberwell College, UAL; and holds a Masters of M\u0101ori Visual Arts with Distinction from Massey Univ., New Zealand, and is founder and Project lead of Women’s Research W\u0101nanga. Her research interests are indigenous practice and M\u0101ori studies, feminism, intersectionality, collectivity, practices of care, migration and diasporic identities.<\/p>\n

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\u00d6sterreichisch-S\u00fcdpazifische Gesellschaft (OSPG) (Web) Zeit: 25.03.2025, 18:00 Uhr Ort: Institut f\u00fcr Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie, Univ. Wien, NIG, Universit\u00e4tsstr. 7, 4. Stock Indigenous Feminisms are not new. Mana w\u0101hine M\u0101ori envelops concepts of female empowerment, strength and integrity. This lecture discusses the work and practice of M\u0101ori artists Mataaho Collective as a holistic embodying of mana […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history-of-european-womens-movements","category-migration-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80187,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80113\/revisions\/80187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}