{"id":136397,"date":"2024-09-12T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=136397"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:37:09","slug":"he-heru-ein-kamm","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/literature\/he-heru-ein-kamm-136397\/","title":{"rendered":"He Heru. A Comb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From a seemingly simple comb, Whiti Hereaka creates a mirror work of reverence and beauty. A text in nine sections, \u201ca part for each tooth, and a part for each space between them\u201d. The parts tell stories of love, loss, longing, including tales of whales from whose bones objects were made, of a carver creating a comb, of M\u0101ori gods and the power of women, of colonial whalers fishing their prey almost to extinction in the South Pacific, of a writer who cuts her hair and moves across worlds weaving connections.<\/p>\n

Whiti Hereaka is an award-winning novelist and playwright of Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Te Arawa, T\u016bhourangi, Ng\u0101ti Whakaue, Ng\u0101ti Tumatawera, Tainui and P\u0101keh\u0101 descent, based in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. In her new text for Humboldt Forum she unfurls a stunning cosmology around the heru, combing with it through time and space to make \u201cstories of ocean blue, blood red, bone white\u201d, thus shattering the silence left by the museum description “Zugang ungekl\u04d3rt”.<\/p>\n

The event starts at 18:30 with a short tour to room 218 to see the Heru (comb) in the original. The meeting point is the Mechanical Arena in the foyer. The reading with Whiti Hereaka will also begin there at around 19:00.<\/em><\/p>\n

After the event, Whiti Hereaka’s books will be on sale. They will be signed by the author.<\/em><\/p>\n

More Informations about Heru (Comb) are available at Collections Online<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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