MANUIA! | Opening Speech. An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 […]
MANUIA! | Curators Talk An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004 […]
MANUIA! Stereotypical Banality, Cultural Dimensionality & The Key To Contemporary Pacific Art. An exhibition by Beachcomber Contemporary Art (BCA) @ The American Indian Community House, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
VII Pacific Arts Association Conference 2003, Christchurch New Zealand, a presentation by Curator Ron Brownson. Institutionalising culture is the provocative title of the stream that […]
THIS ESSAY RAISES SOME ISSUES OF GREAT IMPORTANCE to our region, and offers a view of Oceania that is new and optimistic, What I say […]