Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
Are you sure you want to delete this address?
Pasifika Styles : Artists Inside The Museum
Paperback Edition: 1
Pasifika Styles is about a groundbreaking experiment in the display of contemporary Pacific art. The artists flung open the stores of the museum and installed their works in cases next to taonga collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver. This heralds a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums.
For two years, visiting artists (including Ani O'Neill, Maureen Lander, Shigeyuki Kihara, Tracey Tawhiao, Reuben Paterson, Rachel Rakena, Lisa Reihana, Lisa Taouma, Michel Tuffery) brought vitality to the collections by offering workshops, seminars, public activities and a festival of performing arts. This book describes the making of Pasifika Styles from the perspectives of the artists and the museum professionals and scholars involved, placing it in the midst of current debates about museums, cultural property and art.
Featured in the 2 June 2008 New Zealand newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.
Pages : 146
Publisher : Otago University Press
Publication date : 2008-05-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, Pasifika, Pacific Art And Crafts