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10th Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. In late 2008, the National Gallery of Australia established its first Pacific Arts department, marking what director Ron Radford has described as the 'renaissance' or 'renewal' of ...
The Danger of a Single Story by Yazmany Arboleda
A review of the BCA exhibition MANUIA! Huffington Post, NYC, April 28, 2010. I borrow this title from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, who insightfully asserted that hearing only one story about a people or nation leads to ignorance. Ms. Adichie po ...
MANUIA! Opening Speech.
MANUIA! | Opening Speech. An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 March 15 - May 29, 2010 Ladies and Gentlemen; Kia Orana Tatou Ka toatoa! My name i ...
MANUIA! Curators Talk.
MANUIA! | Curators Talk An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 March 15 - May 29, 2010 Ladies & Gentleman … Art is not a language of any particula ...
MANUIA! – Abbreviated Statement.
MANUIA! Stereotypical Banality, Cultural Dimensionality & The Key To Contemporary Pacific Art. An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 March 15 - May 2 ...
Closing speech, Pacific Arts Association 10th International Symposium, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Kia Orana! I am Ben Bergman, Director of BCA Gallery, Taputapuatea, here at Rarotonga. Your Symposium’s organizing committee kindly asked me to speak tonight, on their behalf. I want to express the thanks of so very many people to Michael Gunn an ...
Mahiriki Tangaroa, Cook Islands Contemporary Art, Origins and Prospects.
Cook Islands Contemporary Art: Origins and Prospects. CIRA 2050 Conference 2009 “Carving Out the Future of Cook Islands Contemporary Art” Mahiriki Tangaroa Introduction. Throughout history, art has played a critical role in expressing, refl ...
NYC – Sugar Free!
Between August 11-25th, 2008, Cook Islands artist Mahiriki Tangaroa, along with BCA directors Ben Bergman & Luke Brown and NZ artist Andy Leleisi’uao visited New York City….. In a New York Minute…. American writer Thomas Wolfe wrote, ‘One belong ...
Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao.
Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga, 2007. Introduction: I reckon that parameters to definition are lacking when it comes to contemporary pacific art. You all know how much deb ...
The Development of Contemporary Oceanic Arts, Epeli Hau’ofa.
Over the last three hundred years Westerners have deliberately degraded traditional standards of evaluation Pacific Cultures, imposing alien standards of judgment that have stymied original creativity in Pacific societies. At the tail end of the twentieth ...