Word: zealander
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Visitors to new zealand these days might be excused for wondering if it really is English they speak there. The accent is but a minor distraction; it's the words that stop newcomers in their tracks. Newspapers refer casually to tikanga (Maori culture) and kaupapa (philosophy or plan). TV hosts open and close their shows with haere mai (welcome) and ka kite ano (see you later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after...
...called a halt just short of 1,000 words. But Macalister's A Dictionary of Maori Words in New Zealand English, published last month by Oxford University Press, suggests the flow of Maori into English won't be stopping anytime soon. Kiwi English is not just annexing Maori words, from Pakeha (European) to whanau (extended family). It's giving them English inflections (moko-ed for tattooed; haka-ing for dancing), and playing with them to create hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi...
...dehydration, the energy deficit and the physical battering that her body is enduring are starting to affect Rusch's mind. "You start hallucinating and falling asleep while on the bike," she says. "I've had vitamins in my hand and had them all turn into squirming bugs. In New Zealand one time, we were walking through a marsh in the middle of the night, and I saw a Vietnamese woman selling fruit at a little stand. I asked a teammate for some money to buy mangoes as I started to change course and walk toward the stand. My teammate just...
...With an exhibition budget of $A1.4 million, triple that of New Zealand, Australia can afford to be more relaxed. Which suits the artist. While et al.'s installations often feature cyclone fencing and cacophonous sound loops, Swallow's pale wood carvings of skulls and suburban beanbags speak more softly. "The Biennale is about this explosion of shows, and you've got such little time to look at everything," Swallow says. "So the idea I want is almost like a cool room away from that experience." Not that Australia is resting on its laurels. As well as the usual bags...
...world's oldest art fair, Venice is but one of a number of biennales the Australia Council targets to position its artists internationally: "it's part of a much bigger strategy and matrix of events and approaches," says Brown. But for New Zealand's Burke, it is the be-all and end-all; a one-stop shop for contemporary art. So when et al.'s "the fundamental practice" opens next Thursday, it will be the climax of a near-military campaign since the artists were chosen in July last year...