Abstract

Flagging the Future: Te Kiritangata – The Last Palisade (1995), by Diane Prince (Ngāti Whātua, Ngā Puhi), was a controversial installation in the Auckland Art Gallery’s 1995 exhibition ‘Korurangi: New Māori Art’. Prince’s use of a New Zealand flag, placed on the floor and stencilled with the words ‘please walk on me’ – a challenge to the flag’s symbolic exclusion and betrayal of Māori – led to the work being removed from the exhibition. This article argues that Prince’s notoriety as a ‘Māori radical’, in the eyes of the public and media, is consistent with theorist Sara Ahmed’s concept of the ‘affect alien’, as someone who conspicuously contravenes mainstream values by holding on to historical injustices. It suggests that Prince’s work was a focal point for debate in the context of Māori activism in the mid-1990s, reflecting the social relations of its moment, while also pointing up present political follies and subterfuges.

摘要

标记未来：Te Kiritangata – 最后的栅栏（1995 年），黛安·普林斯（Diane Prince）（Ngāti Whātua，Ngā Puhi）是奥克兰美术馆 1995 年展览“Korurangi：新毛利艺术”中的一个有争议的装置。普林斯将新西兰国旗放在地板上，上面印有“请走在我身上”的字样——这是对国旗象征性排斥和背叛毛利人的挑战——导致该作品被从展览中移除。本文认为，普林斯作为“毛利激进分子”的恶名，在公众和媒体眼中，与理论家萨拉·艾哈迈德的“影响外星人”的概念是一致的，因为她坚持历史不公正，明显违反了主流价值观。这表明普林斯的作品是 1990 年代中期毛利激进主义背景下辩论的焦点，反映了当时的社会关系，