: Kaka Toi — Wearable Arts
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Approach: One to one  
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Focus:   Students can form and explain a personal response to artists’ works and consider artists’ intentions. 
Resources:  Video on laptop computer, 2 pictures.  
Questions/instructions:
Arä ëtahi tängata mahi toi, he pai ki a rätou te hanga mahi toi hei käkahu mö te tangata. Ka kïia, he “kaka toi”. Ka mätakitaki täua i tëtahi whiti ataata e whakaatu ana i ëtahi tängata e mau kaka toi ana i te atamira o tëtahi whakaari. I a koe e mätakitaki ana, me äta whakaaro ki ngä tae, te hanga, me ngä ähua i roto i ngä kaka.

Päwhiria te pätene Kaka Toi, ka timata te whiti ataata.
   Some artists have a lot of fun, and work very hard, to make art that people wear. This is called “wearable art”. I’m going to show you a video of some people wearing art at a special show. As you watch the video, think about the colours, lines, textures and shapes that have been used.

Click the Wearable Arts button. The video will start.


[No voiceover; soundtrack of atmospheric music only]
 
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Anei ngä pikitia o ëtahi kaka toi rerekë e rua.

Hoatu ngä pikitia ki te äkonga.

Köwhiria te pikitia e tino pai ana ki a koe, ka körerorero ai täua.

Tangohia tërä atu o ngä pikitia ki rahaki.
   Here are pictures of two different wearable arts.

Give pictures to student.

Choose the picture you like most, and we’ll talk about that one.

Remove other picture.

          

  
Preferred picture:
warrior woman

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graceful woman

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1. Ka kite ana koe i tënei kaka toi, he aha te whakaaro ka puta ki a koe?

What does this wearable art make you think of?
strong ideas, well explained

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strong ideas, but not well explained

6
limited ideas, some explanation

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limited ideas, no explanation

30
other responses

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2. Nö hea ngä whakaaro o te tangata mahi toi, kia pënei ai te hanga o tënei kaka toi?

Where do you think the artist got the ideas from to make this?
imagination

9
works of other artists

4
cultural or other real-life situations

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3. He aha ngä rauemi i whakamahia e te tangata mahi toi hei hanga i tënei kaka?

What do you think the artist used to make this?
3 or more appropriate materials/objects

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2 appropriate materials/objects

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1 appropriate material/object

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any other response

2
4. Ka pëhea tö ähua ngäkau ki te kuhuna e koe tënei kaka toi?

What kind of feeling would you have if you wore this?
strong positive feeling appropriate to costume

9
weaker positive feeling appropriate to costume

39
negative response or embarrassment

35
any other response

17
5. Ki töu whakaaro he aha te take e hangaia ai ënei momo kaka e te tangata mahi toi?

Why do you think artists make this kind of art?
creative enjoyment

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challenge, competition

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financial rewards, recognition

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Commentary:
There was a spread of responses to the questions about the wearable arts, with most success shown in identifying the materials and objects used.
 
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