Post by Lux on May 3, 2008 10:38:03 GMT 12
02 May 2008
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Tame Iti's lawyer Annette Sykes announced that they have successfully secured Tame's
passport so that he can travel overseas. Tame is due to appear in a production of TEMPEST
II in Italy and may travel to other European cities and Japan to do further performances.
This is a major victory for the case as Tame can now continue his work in educating
people worldwide about the struggle of Tuhoe.
About the performance: TEMPEST II is the second chapter of the performance series
Tempest.
Tempest is the performance of a staged hearing, within conditions of detention and loss of
sovereign rights. The language of Tempest is dance and its oratory signals the rebirth of
an indigenous voice in the telling of the shifting conditions of political right, from the
scientific journey to witness the transit of Venus that coincided with colonial conquest, to
the current geopolitics of the Pacific reflecting the wider post 9/11 global community.
Tempest inflects towards the Shakespeare work, though draws away from being either a
staging or an adaptation of it. Rather, Tempest is the collision of the island geography of
the play and the political writings of the contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben,
concerned with our contemporary crisis of the destitution of rights, whereby any citizen
may be constituted as a detainee and any urban condition may become that of the camp.
TEMPEST II features the veteran Maori activist Tame Iti. On the 15th of October 2007,
police carried out anti-terror raids, focussing in his community in Ruatoki. Tame Iti was
arrested and is currently on bail. TEMPEST II also features the recently freed Algerian
refugee Ahmed Zaoui who was detained for four years without trial in a New Zealand
prison.
indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/75339/index.php
..
Tame Iti's lawyer Annette Sykes announced that they have successfully secured Tame's
passport so that he can travel overseas. Tame is due to appear in a production of TEMPEST
II in Italy and may travel to other European cities and Japan to do further performances.
This is a major victory for the case as Tame can now continue his work in educating
people worldwide about the struggle of Tuhoe.
About the performance: TEMPEST II is the second chapter of the performance series
Tempest.
Tempest is the performance of a staged hearing, within conditions of detention and loss of
sovereign rights. The language of Tempest is dance and its oratory signals the rebirth of
an indigenous voice in the telling of the shifting conditions of political right, from the
scientific journey to witness the transit of Venus that coincided with colonial conquest, to
the current geopolitics of the Pacific reflecting the wider post 9/11 global community.
Tempest inflects towards the Shakespeare work, though draws away from being either a
staging or an adaptation of it. Rather, Tempest is the collision of the island geography of
the play and the political writings of the contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben,
concerned with our contemporary crisis of the destitution of rights, whereby any citizen
may be constituted as a detainee and any urban condition may become that of the camp.
TEMPEST II features the veteran Maori activist Tame Iti. On the 15th of October 2007,
police carried out anti-terror raids, focussing in his community in Ruatoki. Tame Iti was
arrested and is currently on bail. TEMPEST II also features the recently freed Algerian
refugee Ahmed Zaoui who was detained for four years without trial in a New Zealand
prison.
