Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum
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Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum by Rosanna Raymond
Documents an exhibition by 15 New Zealand artists in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK from 2006-2008. 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. The visiting artists included Ani O'Neill, Maureen Lander, Shigeyuki Kihara, Tracey Tawhiao, Reuben Paterson, Rachel Rakena, Lisa Reihana, Lisa Taouma, and Michel Tuffery who brought vitality to the collections by offering workshops, seminars, public activities and a festival of performing arts. This book describes the making of Pasfika 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.
Rosanna Raymond is an artist, performer and freelance curator who helped to establish the Pasifika Festival in Auckland. Now based in London, she has created exhibitions at a variety of UK venues and undertaken residencies in Britain, the US and France. Dr Amiria Salmond is James McDonalds great-great-grand-daughter and is an independent scholar and historian, who was earlier a lecturer in social anthropology and Senior Curator at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She is writing a book on the history of the island of Ulbha (Ulva) in the Scottish Hebrides, which was cleared of the great bulk of its inhabitants in the mid-nineteenth century. Her publications include Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and she co-edited Thinking Through Things: Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically (Routledge, 2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781877372605 |
| ISBN 10 | 1877372609 |
| Title | Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum |
| Author | Rosanna Raymond |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Otago University Press |
| Year published | 2008-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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