54.027 - Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific SIG Business Meeting. Pushing Back Against the Post-Truth Paradigm: A Conversation With Robert Jahnke — Māori Artist and Educator

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

A Professor of Māori Visual Arts at Massey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art, Robert Jahnke is considered one of Aotearoa’s leading contemporary artists. He is a highly respected educator who works as an historian, teacher, researcher, writer, and advocate for Māori and indigenous arts nationally and internationally. His artistic practice straddles design, illustration, animation, and sculpture. His work, which exudes data-rich, multimodal narratives, focuses on the dynamics of inter-cultural exchange and the politics of indigenous identity, specifically, political issues that face Māori people, the relationship between Māori and European colonizers and the impact of Christianity on Maori culture. Ref: https://www.maoritelevision.com/professor-robert-bob-jahnke

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

Chair

• Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Massey University

Speaker

• Robert H Jahnke, Massey University

Discussant

• Graham H. Smith, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi