blackmail press 26

Andy Leleisi'auo

New Zealand /Samoa

index

from: Angipanis of the Abanimal People - Andy Leleisi'auo

The Malo Conversations:

The following text exchanges are between two middle-aged New Zealand-born Samoan friends. Muta lives in Otara, after work he spends his time repairing his 1974 Valiants. Niu is an artist from Mangere and has recently completed a mural on panels for the community centre which they did not like.

Monday morning, May 20th:

Muta – Bad luk abot yur mural uso mayb people can use it 4 a toilet

Niu – Bad luk being born wit one polo

Muta – Wanker

Niu – Wher did yur otha polo go?

Muta – Go fuk yurself

Afternoon:

Niu – Rubish colection dis wekend uso push yur cars 2 da curb, put yur life in da glovebox

Muta – Ufa

Niu – Remember when u once said u had a dream 2 own a flatdeck towing truck? U talked abot being yur own boss an being independent. Turn 2 shit did it?

Muta – Fuk u cunt

Muta – I read in da paper artist told to get fuked

Niu – I know i was ther

Evening:

Niu – Its nitetime. Turn da outside lite off, go inside an gt sum sleep. Those cars r a

         piece of shit jus like u

Muta – Take yur cok off da dog ass got no shame bro go 2 zoo smely ashole ther an wank

         yurself wit yur left hand kio lo mulipipilo ai kae kefe tama valea susu poki

Niu – Malo

Muta – Malo

Tuesday morning, May 21st:

Muta - Fuken coconut get up 

Muta - I got a trailor 2 dump yur panels 4 scrap i kno it hurts but its da rite thing 2 do. 

Muta - More cheaper 2 burn it

Muta – Want sum more coconut cunt

Niu – Yeah bring it on

Muta - Slag

Muta - Dipshit

Muta – Tiny dik

Muta – Wana b arthole

Tuesday afternoon:

Niu – Bro my ass is itchy can u com ova an scratch it

Muta – U com ova i get my dog

Niu – I want u to scratch it

Muta – My dog do it 4 free

Niu – But u got mor experience

Muta – Com ova so i can kill u

Niu – Wot time

Muta – Anytime kefe

Niu – Say a time

Muta – Anytime ufa

Tuesday evening:

Muta – All good bro

Niu – All good

Muta – Did u say u got a blow up doll an needs air uso slow down i get u a vacuum beta 

         sakisaki on yur small dik

Niu – U com sakisaki my dik

Muta – Fuk u komo

Muta – U left yur taro shit 4 brains at da mural

Niu – U stil lift 1 leg when u take a piss

Muta – Im goin to piss an kio on da wall an write wana b was here

Niu – Good. When yur done use da flax in da garden 2 wipe yur ass wit, its da same

         type of flax u wipe yur ass wit at home

Muta – Fuk u wana b

Niu – I kno u on a budget but u don’t have 2 use da same flax ova an ova

Muta – U fuken cok

Niu – Malo

Muta -  Malo

Wednesday morning, May 22nd:

Muta – Hey beta com bak 2 yur mural loks like people r shitting on it

Muta – I go save it 4 u i bring petrol

Niu – Dont 4get da matches r up yur bum

Muta – Fuk dis wall needs cleaning artist wana b

Muta – I sort it out my piss bag full

Niu – Take it easy u only got 1 polo

Muta – U cok

Muta – Fuk up jandal

Muta – Fuken red neck

Muta – Eat shit an die

Muta – Wana b arthole 

Muta – Want sum mor cunt

Wednesday afternoon:

Niu – Useless Muta, Muta da useless how many times u heard dat in yur life uso

Muta – I am going to kio on dat wall ova an ova 4 da rest of my life ufa

Muta – Fuken jandal boy kiss my ass ai kae kefe ufa

Muta – Komo

Muta – Mangere fob

Muta – Fuk u

Wednesday evening:

Muta – Bad news bro da palangi man we saw at mural he having a kio on yur wall

Niu – Its ok he shit in yur car first

Muta – Malo

Niu – Malo

Thursday morning, May 23rd:

Muta – Sole nofo luga moe umi ai kae alu kapega le fale alu fufulu faleuila

Muta – Sole nofo luga alu sue galuega ai kae moe umi lo ufa

Muta – Found new shit on da wall uso

Muta – Com bak n clean yur shit man

Muta – Uso sori abot calling u arthole wana b fiapoko ma ai kae but it’s wot u r a stupid

         coconut who knows jack shit

Niu – Muli elo

Muta – Oi want sum mor mr fiapoko

Muta – Alu faigaluega u lazi jandal boy

Muta – Ai kae

Muta - Faken blak coconut

Muta – Kefe

Muta – Jandal boy go put da lapisi out an put yur skirt on

Thursday afternoon:

Muta – In da toilet an feels good letting u out

Niu – Do u carry a piss bag around?

Muta – Fukn idiot

Muta – Cok suka

Muta – Polo breath

Muta – Juju lips

Muta – Want sum mor jandal boy

Thursday evening:

Muta – Went pass dat shit wall a man said he didnt undastand wot its abot

Niu – U should of suked his dik

Muta -  U left teeth marks on his dik

Niu – No dat was u nobody else has a wider gap in their front teeth

Muta – Kefe

Muta – Piece of shit

Muta – Cat fuka

Muta – Bunga feshie

Muta – Go put yur skirt on

Muta – Fuken 4 eyes

Niu – Malo

Muta - Malo

Friday morning, May 24th:

Muta – Clean da house an fufulu ipu bro cos u cant paint 4 shit

Muta – Fufulu da toilet 2

Muta – Kope sole

Niu – Useless samoan

Muta – Fuk u mata 4

Muta – Ufakomo

Muta – Slut

Muta – Fogi eyes

Muta – Wear da skirt uso

Muta – Go fufu yur banana

Muta – Yeah dats rite cant see yurs

Muta – Lost 4 words

Muta - Shit 4 brains

Friday afternoon:

Niu – Can u ask yur mum if i can move in

Muta – Fuk ass

Niu – But I cant afford rent

Muta – Hold yur cok an pull it

Niu – Go on ask yur mum

Muta – Ufa

Niu – Does she still dress you

Niu - Do wear pants wit only 1 testicle pocket?

Muta – Alu ai lou kio

Muta – Fuken dik

Muta – U bitch

Muta – Mata fuka

Muta – Cunt face

Friday evening:

Niu – U know deep down inside yur cars are worthless a

Muta – Ufa ai kae kui lau kefe kio le muli fuken 4 eyes

Muta – Go fuk yur dog

Muta – An da kat

Muta – Don’t 4get possums

Niu – Malo

Muta - Malo

Saturday morning, May 25th:

Niu – Whrs mr. silly tit

Muta – Cunt

Niu – Oi there he is

Muta – Cok

Niu – Which is it

Muta – Both u mata fuka

Muta – Chiken shit

Muta – Fafa 4 life

Muta – Yep go bak 2 sleep skank

Muta – Mangere bitch

Muta – Okay if i clean yur wall wit a fork

Muta – Then i kio on it

Muta – Then i piss on it again

Niu - U egg foo yong

Muta – Oi u want sum more mata fuka

Muta – Moe kio

Muta – U momo

Muta – Mr midget

Muta – Dog lova

Muta – Da zoo is waiting

Muta – Bring it cunt

Niu – Bring wot?

Muta – Fuken wana b

Saturday afternoon:

Muta – Wot u want 2 borrow my cok

Niu – No u only got one polo

Muta – U cunt

Niu - 1 is da loneliest numba in the world

Muta – U dog face bitch

Muta – Jandal boy

Muta – Fuken cokhead

Saturrday evening:

Muta – Did yur cok grow 2day

Niu – Yes did yurs

Muta – Use yur left hand it mite grow

Niu – U com do it for me

Muta -  Fuken loser

Niu – Malo

Muta - Malo

Sunday morning, May 26th:

Muta – Malo uso fuk u u loser get a job wank yur small cok an say i am a real fafa

Muta – Now u know whose da matai

Niu – U 4get we both matai

Muta – U matai of empty village

Niu – U our village idiot

Muta – U not a matai u still walking wit 2 left feet

Niu – U still walk wit yur dik between yur thighs

Muta – Kefe does da high chief know how to plant a taro or just taukala le guku ai kae freshie

Muta – U taro brain matai from village valea

Niu - U polo matai

Muta - Fuk u fuken sad cockhead ai kae matafucka eat shit and die u fuken 4 eyes cunt

Sunday afternoon:

Muta – Lets be mates

Muta – Did u wash yur skirt

Niu – Did u wash yur foreskin

Muta – They found yur village yet?

Niu – U jus got confused walking around a coconut tree

Muta – Fuk u clown

Muta – Mr backwards

Niu – Kaka brains

Muta – Ai kae

Muta – U cheap coconut

Muta – U fat ugly bunga wit 2 left feet

Sunday evening:

Muta – Wana susu my polo

Niu – Yur one polo?

Muta – Fuken coconut

Muta – Mata fuka

Muta – Kio

Niu – Bum whispherer

Muta – Kefe

Muta – Wana b arthole

Niu - I looked up yur name in dictionary don’t know if u kno but it has several

meanings lik 1 example said yur name refers 2 da hanging dry shit around

an elephants bum         

Muta – Mangere fukwit

Niu - Im serious uso

Muta – Fuken cock

Niu - Anada example was da dry shit around a baboons bum   

Muta – Kiss my ass mata fuka

Niu – Malo

Muta – Malo.

Glossary:

Ai kae – Eat shitElo – Stinky

Fiapoko – Know it allFaiai - Brains

Kefe – FuckwitKio – Shit

Komo – FuckwitMalo – Well done

Matai – Chiefly titleMuli – Bum

Moe umi – Sleep inMuli – Bum

Polo – TesticlesSusu – Suck

Ufa – FuckwitUso – Brother

Valea – Dumb.

Andy Leleisi'auo has always been aware that his visual art has a public agenda. His art is about people and how they get on together, as lovers, as families, as insiders and outsiders. As immigrants. News can be good and bad and it must be lived with. Initially he demarcated injustice, while ranging over the continuity and discontinuity within Pacific heritages. He saw Samoans accepting and rejecting fa’a Samoa because of their immigration to New Zealand. He invented language systems that unite spoken Polynesian and English expressions, and showed how such opposing traditions transform one’s personal identity. He shows how some lives are lived way over the line while also attempting to maintain and affirm love. Inconsistencies are included because opposites always co-exist... Andy’s prescient talent for seeing who we are, what we are like and what we do is a signature of his art. By revealing the ways that the effects of migration still exist within us, he symbolizes an essential characteristic of our culture. (excerpt from essay by Ron Brownson, Pacific Islander Arts curator for the Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand’s national art museum) ................................... The latest body of work marks a culmination of recurring concerns and motifs in subdued, otherworldly environments. These are characterised by a restricted palette of teal wash or horizontal striations, with smudgy black line drawings and small figurative silhouettes. Flashes of white, flaming orange and crimson provide dramatic ignition points in an otherwise cool and moody field. The choice of so much teal and black may, in iconographic terms, be incidental but for non-Kiwi viewers these ubiquitous colours nevertheless convey overtones, not only of the Pacific deep but also of its shallows, exemplified in corporate branding of New Zealand sport and the national airline.

(excerpt from essay by Pam Zeplin)