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Pasifika styles : artists inside the museum /

Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, U.K. : University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ; Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 146 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781877372605 (pbk. : Otago) :
  • 9780947595173 (pbk. : Cambridge)
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Contents:
Preface / Nicholas Thomas -- Acknowledgements -- Pasifika Styles, a waiata / Che Wilson -- 1. Introduction / Rosanna Raymond and Amiria Salmond -- 2. Islands of opportunity: Pasifika Styles and museums / Deidre Brown -- 3. An interview with Lisa Taouma / edited by Amiria Salmond -- 4. Pasifika Styles: where the bellbird sings / Billie Lythberg -- 5. He Tautoko (2006): a new media installation / Lisa Reihana -- 6. Relational understandings: connecting people and things through Pasifika Styles / Anita Herle -- 7. Fieldwork in a glass case: artistic practice and museum ethnology / Carine Ayélé Durand -- 8. Fusion/confusion / Reuben Paterson -- 9. Some anxious moments: the mechanics and pragmatics of a collaborative exhibition / Mark Elliott -- 10. The Pasifika Styles visiting artists programme / Sarah-Jane Harknett -- 11. Tikanga Māori and art / Che Wilson -- 12. Awakening sleeping objects / Fanny Wonu Veys -- 13. Kōrero mai / Sarah Robbins -- 14. Dad's chair / Niki Hastings-McFall -- 15. Pasifika Styles: a visual essay / Kerry Brown -- Pasifika Styles exhibition: list of artists and works.
Summary: "In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, a groundbreaking experiment in the display of Pacific Art. Installing their works in cases next to taonga or treasures collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, the artists flung open the stores of the museum to bring more of the museum's unparalleled Oceanic collections to light. At the opening of the exhibition, the song of ancient instruments played by contemporary musicians called historic artefacts to life, heralding a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums. Over the next two years, visiting artists continued to bring vitality to the collections, offering workshops, seminars, public activities and a festival of performing arts. This book describes Pasifika Styles, from the perspectives of artists, museum professionals and scholars involved in this pioneering project, placing it in the context of current debates about museums, cultural property and art"--Back cover.Review: "In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, an experiment in the display of contemporary Pacific art. Installing their works next to taonga or treasures collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, the artists flung open the stores of the museum to bring more of the museum's unparalleled Oceanic collections to light."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library NZ & Pacific NZ & Pacific NZ&P N 7406 PAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0012027

Published to accompany the exhibition Pasifika Styles, held 5 May 2006 to 23 February 2008 at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-146).

Preface / Nicholas Thomas -- Acknowledgements -- Pasifika Styles, a waiata / Che Wilson -- 1. Introduction / Rosanna Raymond and Amiria Salmond -- 2. Islands of opportunity: Pasifika Styles and museums / Deidre Brown -- 3. An interview with Lisa Taouma / edited by Amiria Salmond -- 4. Pasifika Styles: where the bellbird sings / Billie Lythberg -- 5. He Tautoko (2006): a new media installation / Lisa Reihana -- 6. Relational understandings: connecting people and things through Pasifika Styles / Anita Herle -- 7. Fieldwork in a glass case: artistic practice and museum ethnology / Carine Ayélé Durand -- 8. Fusion/confusion / Reuben Paterson -- 9. Some anxious moments: the mechanics and pragmatics of a collaborative exhibition / Mark Elliott -- 10. The Pasifika Styles visiting artists programme / Sarah-Jane Harknett -- 11. Tikanga Māori and art / Che Wilson -- 12. Awakening sleeping objects / Fanny Wonu Veys -- 13. Kōrero mai / Sarah Robbins -- 14. Dad's chair / Niki Hastings-McFall -- 15. Pasifika Styles: a visual essay / Kerry Brown -- Pasifika Styles exhibition: list of artists and works.

"In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, a groundbreaking experiment in the display of Pacific Art. Installing their works in cases next to taonga or treasures collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, the artists flung open the stores of the museum to bring more of the museum's unparalleled Oceanic collections to light. At the opening of the exhibition, the song of ancient instruments played by contemporary musicians called historic artefacts to life, heralding a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums. Over the next two years, visiting artists continued to bring vitality to the collections, offering workshops, seminars, public activities and a festival of performing arts. This book describes Pasifika Styles, from the perspectives of artists, museum professionals and scholars involved in this pioneering project, placing it in the context of current debates about museums, cultural property and art"--Back cover.

"In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, an experiment in the display of contemporary Pacific art. Installing their works next to taonga or treasures collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, the artists flung open the stores of the museum to bring more of the museum's unparalleled Oceanic collections to light."--BOOK JACKET.

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