“It’s kind of talking about how trauma and memory can be both allies and nemeses how things that you remember one way might not be the case…” says Rangi, emphasising that it’s not so much about the details as how you remember the events. It is an amalgam of truth and fiction, with facts grotesquely twisted using hallucinatory elements. The story is told in five movements: getting ready at home on a train heading into city at a restaurant on the date heading in a taxi back home the assault, the escape, and dealing with it. “That’s not what the work is about, that’s one of the events that happened within the night, but the entire work kind of unpacks different parts of a night out and how queermisia, homophobia, transphobia, racism – all these things can contribute to violence being enacted on a body,” explains Rangi.
It is an enhanced monologue that explores the events on a particular night Rangi experienced around 10 years ago, essentially unpacking a sexual assault. Their work, Takatāpui, does not conform to any genre, nor can it be categorised by subject matter. AdvertisementRangi is a Māori anti-disciplinary artist.
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