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Pasifika Style
Sally Rooney
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Description for Pasifika Style
Paperback. Editor(s): Salmond, Amira; Raymond, Rosanna. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 1QSPS; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 209 x 14. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 contemporary 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 museums unparalleled Oceanic collections to light. At the opening of the exhibtion, the song of ancient instruments played by contemporary musicians called historic artefacts to life, heralding a new era of collaborative curatorship ... Read more
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 contemporary 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 museums unparalleled Oceanic collections to light. At the opening of the exhibtion, the song of ancient instruments played by contemporary musicians called historic artefacts to life, heralding a new era of collaborative curatorship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Otago University Press New Zealand
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, New Zealand
ISBN
9781877372605
SKU
V9781877372605
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About Sally Rooney
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 ... Read more
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