Onions Talk: Change making through social engagement

Teiti Majik Nepia is a Māna Wāhine and art activist from Aotearoa. She is a fiercely independent and curious maker of art. She spent over a decade in central Australian desert, living in a swag under the dark skies. She is an avid cyclist and star gazer who moved back to Aotearora in 2021. In this episode, Ti shares about her Home project which saw her living as a responsible freedom camper living outside with strength and dignity on her whenua. She peacefully resisted the high cost of living and unsustainable rent in Aotearora. Home project is an account of her journey of art activism.

Support her documentary here: https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/home?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR31KQ7Xok84YNyj8fbKcE1RYxg-SoNWixgQ9dtLByb9dTsBm4Y0ichlKDw_aem_AQWS7PZyzZuE9VrhDTgotQoKYcomnnNU7xnUyzYOEzIve0sMK6tg77qUNlaLS7KcgQBs5AH8c7O5eir8VBuPHC__

Debbie Fish is a set designer, installation artist and performer, and co-director of GoldFish Creative. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Victoria University and a Graduate Diploma in Economics from Massey University. Her theatre, performance, and set design background feeds into her practice as an installation artist, unfolding the enduring drama of social and biological life and the often-messy collisions between the two. Fish is an alumnus of the Keelung National Museum of Marine Science and Technology International Environmental Art Residency in Taiwan (2017), for which she made a site-specific artwork connecting marine science and contemporary art. Her work is also included in several public and private collections, including the Arts House Trust.

In this episode we talk about:

https://www.goldfishcreative.co.nz/

@debbiefish_art

References in episode:

13:22 - East Coast Exchange [https://eastcoastexchange.toha.nz/]

24:10 - Report: Arts Funding, Value & Tech [https://www.goldfishcreative.co.nz/resources]

Also referred to:
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast & Slow - [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11468377]

Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics - [https://www.kateraworth.com/]

Ecological Economics - [https://www.isecoeco.org/]

Christiana Figuerez & Krista Tippet, Ecological Hope & Spiritual Revolution - [https://onbeing.org/programs/christiana-figueres-ecological-hope-and-spiritual-evolution/]

Donella Meadows, Systems Thinking - [https://donellameadows.org/]

Deirdre Kent - Healthy Money, Healthy Planet - [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/4505519]

B-Corps - [https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/]

ArtsPay - [https://artspay.com/]

Max Haiven - Art After Money, Money After Art - [https://maxhaiven.com/aammaa/#INTRO]

Jacqui Moyes is the creative director of Home Ground, a collaborative creativity and wellbeing initiative for women in the justice system. Home Ground creates space for women to pause, nurture hope, activate social change and create better lives for themselves and future generations. On a Home Ground project, artists (inside and outside of prison) make creative works using dance, performance, photography, writing, painting and music to address the issues women and whānau face in the justice system.