Tāmaki Makaurau
UNIFORM
“Our work understands the city to be an Indigenous living breathing place and, with our video, we aim to represent this through a cohesive structuring of images and sounds.”
“For Indigenous people, the city is not just a central business district of high-rise buildings but all about the people and the land. This is why we chose to record and film at Takaparawhau (Bastion Point), rather than in a more European-looking urban area.”
Behind the Scenes
He aha e tangi te kainga rite? | What sounds like home?
Uniform is a Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland based collective established in 2014. Collaborative methods are essential to their practice and extend into the communities they work with. This New Zealand collective predominantly works in sound, performance, writing, print, spatial design and film.
Takaparawhau, where the marae is based, is steeped in history and looks out to the harbour and the greater Auckland area. Our work understands the city to be an Indigenous living breathing place and, with our video for the Sound of X project, we aim to represent this through a cohesive structuring of images and sounds. In documenting our home city from the perspective of Takaparawhau, we seek to represent a personal view that decolonises the predominant images of Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland.
For Indigenous people, the city is not just a central business district of high-rise buildings but all about the people and the land. This is why we chose to record and film at Takaparawhau, rather than in a more European-looking urban area.
Concept
Field recordings of wai | water, maunga | mountains, mana whenua | people, made in Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland, Aotearoa | New Zealand, provide the foundation for working with images filmed at Takaparawhau (Bastion Point). Located above Okahu Bay on the shores of the Waitematā Harbour, Orākei Marae is a living cultural hub of the Ngāti Whātua Indigenous people of Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland.Takaparawhau, where the marae is based, is steeped in history and looks out to the harbour and the greater Auckland area. Our work understands the city to be an Indigenous living breathing place and, with our video for the Sound of X project, we aim to represent this through a cohesive structuring of images and sounds. In documenting our home city from the perspective of Takaparawhau, we seek to represent a personal view that decolonises the predominant images of Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland.
For Indigenous people, the city is not just a central business district of high-rise buildings but all about the people and the land. This is why we chose to record and film at Takaparawhau, rather than in a more European-looking urban area.
