Ariana collaborates with taoka pu-oro legend, Richard Nunns and video artist Louise Potiki Bryant to produce a spellbinding work.
Mixing whanau, whakapapa and whenua, Ariana Tikao’s show Ohaki- explores through music, the dying words of her ancestor, Tamati Tikao, spoken to his family at Opukutahi,on Banks Peninsula on 27 September 1885.
‘Her songs were sung softly yet carried incredible strength with cultural importance and historical meaning’ Canta
‘A magical and at times mystical trip...like being bundled up in a big feather cloak and transported to another world.’
Weekend Herald
