Pacific Wave: A Festival of Pacific Arts

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Foreign returned: Between expatriate and repatriate in Mumbai
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Balamohan Shingade

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Human flow in Melanesia: Taloi Havini's artefacts and habitats
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Nicholas Thomas

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Living and dying under surveillance: Xu Bing's Dragonfly Eyes
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Sasha Grbich

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Inhuman flow: Censorship and art in the two Chinas
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Darren Jorgensen and Tami Xiang

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Sublime Plight: Richard Mosse, Ai Weiwei and the social turn
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Wes Hill

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YARN: The art of conversation
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Coby Edgar interviews Warren Roberts, CEO of YARN Australia

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Editorial: Kanarn Wangkiny/Wanggandi Karlto (Speaking from Inside)
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Clothilde Bullen with James Tylor

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Katie West: Living well
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Katie West

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Brief article outlining Pacific Wave, a celebration and investigation of contemporary trends in art and cultural life of the Pacific taking place across Sydney November 2-17 1996.

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Pacific Stories from New Caledonia
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Susan Cochrane

Collecting Pacific Art is not a straight forward endeavour. There are really no set criteria of what 'contemporary Pacific art' might be, little interpretive literature on the subject and very few precedents for forming even small collections for cultural institutions. There is a new cultural centre 'the Jean-Marie Cultural Centre' being built in Noumea, New Caledonia.

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Truth, Whose Truth?
Review
Ray Spiteri

Exhibition review Peter Dailey: Prime Time
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University of Western Australia
17 May - 30 June 1996

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The Silence which Howls
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Exhibition review Second Look: Prospect Textile Biennial
Prospect Gallery
14 April - 5 May 1996

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Art is Land: Land is Art - Talks with Banduk Marika
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Discussion with the artist Banduk Marika about the issues facing her community of Yirrkala in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Indigenous art practice and land rights, cultural heritage, education and knowledge, environmental protection and mining intrusions are discussed.

Published December 1996
The Art of Survival: The Importance of Contemporary Theatre in Papua New Guinea
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Liz Thompson

In many developing countries where indigenous communities are faced with the rapid process of development, theatre has become an extremely important educational tool. With escalating resource exploitation, rising numbers of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS and increases in violent crimes by an unemployed and disillusioned youth, the importance of this form of communication cannot be underestimated.

Published December 1996
Acting Out the Culture: The Making of Culturally Relevant Theatre, Papua New Guinea
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Michael A. Mel

Culturally relevant theatre in education in Papua New Guinea challenges, questions, asserts, transgresses, subverts, opposes, resists and negotiates with the demands of political and cultural relations. It offers new forms of representation and contributes to the process of destabilising and decentering the domination of Western processes of teaching, learning and performance.

Published December 1996
Spirit Blong Bubu I Kam Bak [The Return of the Spirits of the Ancestors]
Feature
Ralph Regenvanu

Reflections on an exhibition in Vanuatu of old pieces of ni Vanuatu art held in European collections. Touring Exhibition 'Arts of Vanuatu' 29 June - 10 August 1996 at the National Museum of Vanuatu in the national capital of Port Vila.

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Tandanya - Captivating Culture
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Stephanie Britton

Brief overview of the current focus of Tandanya the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide, South Australia.

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Nucleus: Feeling Compromised
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Judy Watson

As Judy Watson was about the commence her residency in France, the French Government announced they would be conducting nuclear tests in the Pacific. As an Australian, an Aboriginal, a conservationist, a woman and an artist, she felt compromised. Discusses her work in this context.

Published December 1996
Darwin Festival - A Glimpse
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Overview of the Festival of Darwin with its temporary visual art installations 'art head land' by 18 artists. For the summer of 1996.

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Maori Film Images and Intellectual Property Rights - A Breakthrough?
Feature
Barry Barclay

For those depositing films with a significant Maori content, the New Zealand Film Archive has developed a Deposit Agreement which acknowledges that named Maori guardians have spiritual guardianship authority over their image treasures in perpetuity. This goes way beyond white copyright regimes.

Published December 1996
Vaka - Only the Brave
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Mereana Hutchinson

Looks at the contemporary art and the cultural and economic pressures faced by the people of the Cook Islands.

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