CURRENT programmes

Pataka Education, Term 1 & 2, 2012

Happy New Year from the Education team at Pataka.

 We are going to show you the money this term with our new exhibitions Money Talks and The Art of Money. Discover stories about the people depicted and the places where the notes originate from in Money Talks. Your students will marvel at the intricate work demonstrated by artists who turn bank notes into art in The Art of Money.

 For secondary school media studies, film or drama students, we recommend renowned South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s Nollywood. This exhibition explores the film industry of Nigeria, in a series that goes beyond simple documentary photography. The multi-layered reality of the Nigerian film industry is explored in a series of other-worldly portraits of the bizarre characters that typify Nollywood productions. * We advise viewer discretion as Nollywood contains nudity and violent imagery.

 In Ka Awatea, Te Rongo Kirkwood interweaves the disciplines of glass and customary Maori weaving to represent a spiritual journey through life. She is an award winning glass artist whose work reflects her love of pattern and form.

 Our permanent programmes, offered all year round, cover a range of topics.You'll find them listed on the Education page on our Pataka website: 'www.pataka.org.nz'. Contact the education team to discuss your programme needs.

 

Money Talks – An exploration of the world through the imagery of banknotes

 25 February – 23 June 2012

   The design of banknotes has traditionally included imagery of   politicians, statesmen and women, of heroes and of man-made and natural wonders.

This exhibition features selected banknotes from around the world and tells the stories of the people and places depicted on them using large back-lit graphics, text, photographs and objects.

The exhibition will also look at some of the world's most beautiful banknote designs and discusses the influences that contributed to their design.

 The Art of Money

25 February - 23 June 2012

 

Let us show you the money!

The works in this exhibition are all created from banknotes and   feature artists from Japan, Belgium, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Korea.

Collage, origami and sculpture are some of the processes used to form animals, necklaces, bracelets, a map and a flying carpet.

Artists include Fiona Hall, Abdullah Syed, Justine Smith, Marc Sky, Taika Waititi and the origami creations of Tine de Ruysser, Won Park and Yosuke Hasegawa.

 

CURRICULUM LINKS

Learning Areas: Social Sciences, The Arts - Visual Art, Mathematics and Statistics – Number and Algebra.

 

PRE AND POST VISIT ACTIVITIES

FIND OUT how bank notes are designed and made in New Zealand.

MAKE your own class currency to add a fun factor to maths.

DISCOVER how and why the value of money changes from country to country.

CREATE a money quiz to test your knowledge of the people, animals or landforms featured on New Zealand bank notes.

COLLAGE an object to create a money sculpture using fake money.

TRY making some origami shapes out of photocopied money.

DEVISE a money game that helps you learn about spending, saving and earning.

SHARE stories about the money you or your students have collected from other countries,

MARK the places on a world map where examples of money have come from.

DESIGN a bank note created especially for a fictitious country and/or culture.

 

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Pieter Hugo: Nollywood

11 February - 13 May 2012
 

 Nollywood, an industry whose prolific output is second only to Bollywood, releases up to a thousand titles a year onto the local home-video market using cheap equipment, basic scripts, actors cast on the day of shooting and real locations.  Hugo was so intrigued by Nollywood that he asked a team of actors to pose as various film characters and photographed them. The deadpan portraits of the actors staged in 'real life' settings in Southern Nigerian cities, evoke a strangely unreal world where everyday reality and myth, fact and fiction are closely intermingled.

'Poriwood studios' would like to invite you and your students to produce a series of portraits or a short movie shot on location at Pataka. Groups will select from a range storyboarded ideas and add their own personal flair to their production.

 

In the style inspired by Nollywood  film making, your students will:

• create a low - no budget movie
• in a short time frame have a movie to screen
• make stars of their peers
• use resources and props provided
• edit their movie in camera
• have lots of fun

 

CURRICULUM LINKS:

Learning Areas: The Arts -Visual Art and Performing

Arts [Drama], English -Media and Film Studies,

Social Sciences.

 PRE AND POST VISIT ACTIVITIES

COMPARE and discuss the different characteristics of the Bollywood, Hollywood and Nollywood film industries.

PROVIDE your students with the background information they need to know about Nollywood before visiting Pataka by watching and discussing this Ted Talks video:

http://www.ted.com/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html

EVALUATE the whole experience of producing and filming a film with such a short time frame with no budget!

HOLD a world premiere of your completed film back at school.

  

Te Rongo Kirkwood

KA AWATEA

4 March - Mid May 2012

 

Glass artist Te Rongo Kirkwood, is primarily of Tainui descent and feels a strong connection to her cultural roots, particularly since her return from 12 years in the UK and Europe. Her designs are influenced by her Māori and New Zealand heritage combined with inspiration drawn from a sense of connection to the land and sea. Since 2005, Kirkwood has turned her interest in design and colour from painting to kiln-formed glass.

Combining the disciplines of glass and weaving, four cloaks tell the story of an awakening and a progression. Te Rongo says "I see it as a progression of stages in life. Each cloak symbolizes a stage of life, morning, mid-day, afternoon and evening and how that stage feels to me in colour and pattern."

 

 

CURRICULUM LINKS

Learning Areas: The Arts - Visual Art [all levels], English [L3, 4] - Students will develop and revisit visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation and imagination supported by the study of artists' works.

Social Sciences - Cultural Diversity.

 

PRE AND POST ACTIVITIES:

FIND out what the ingredients of glass are and how it is made and formed.

SEARCH for interesting videos on how glass is made.

INVESTIGATE how to extract muka (fibre) from harakeke (flax) 

CREATE poems using different times of the day as a metaphor.

DISCOVER ideas about how different cultures view colour.

 

Image: Te Rongo Kirkwood

 

 

LOOKING FORWARD

Pataka will be contacting local schools this term about an end of year zoo-related exhibition of Year 7/8 students' work. Contact us for more details!

May – August: Green Issues Explored; Bio Security; Wayne Barrar photography.

September – October: Glass Show– 'The Crystal Chain Gang; Joe Sheehan: Jade Sculptures of everyday object. 

End of Year: Wildlife Photography of the Year; Local People and their Pets; Wallace Art Awards.