Pacific Wave: A Festival of Pacific Arts

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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
Feature
Dominic Guerrera

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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
Feature
Katerina Teaiwa

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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
Feature
Lorna Munro

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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
Feature
Tracey Rigney

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Gallipoli Art Prize
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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

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Sovereign Sight: Intersections of the historical archive and artistic practice—a curatorial perspective
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Kimberley Moulton

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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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Telling it How it is: Pacific Islands Theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand
Feature
Makerita Urale

Pacific Islands Theatre is at an exciting phase in New Zealand. Although relatively young compared to Maori and Pakeha theatre, the debut of key successful plays has placed it in the spotlight of New Zealand's national stage in recent years as it continues to gain strength.

Published December 1996
Memories - Macabre and Magic
Review
Margaret Way

Exhibition review Aadje Bruce: Domestic Bliss
Artplace Claremont Western Australia
9 May -1 June 1996

Published December 1996
Neo-colonialist Precipice
Review
Jane Deeth

Exhibition review Secret Places
Sieglinde Karl, Hazel Smith, Kate Hamilton, Ron Nagorka
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery,
Touring regional Australia through Contemporary Art Services Tasmania and the national Exhibitions Touring Scheme.

Published December 1996
Oceanic Arts Society of Sydney
Feature
Chris Koziel

Describes the establishment and membership of this new society.

Published December 1996
Dancing the Society: Performing Arts in the Solomon Islands
Feature
Lawrence Foanaota

Performing arts in the Solomon Islands Since the common determining facts in whether to keep, add changes, or reject aspects of the performing arts are based on the dollar, Solomon Islanders will continue to adopt new styles of dances, music, songs and forms of acting in the same way as some Church groups have done.

Published December 1996
The Silence which Howls
Review
Brenda Goggs

Exhibition review Second Look: Prospect Textile Biennial
Prospect Gallery
14 April - 5 May 1996

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.

Published December 1996
Fiji: Artists Carve Out Their Own Future
Feature
Nelson Salesi

Looks at issues in contemporary art practice in Fiji anticipating the construction of the new Fiji National Art School.

Published December 1996
Touch Don't Touch
Review
Mary Knights

Exhibition review Tangibility
Claire Barclay, John R Neeson, Stephen Bush & Jan Nelson Plimsoll Gallery and Powder Magazine, Hobart
10 - 31 May 1996

Published December 1996
Vaka - Only the Brave
Feature
Mereana Hutchinson

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

Published December 1996
Australia Goes to Samoa: 7th Pacific Festival of the Arts
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Overview of the 7th Pacific Festival of Arts which is held in a different country every 4 years. 1996 the festival was held in Apia in Western Samoa. Previous hosts 1992 Raratonga, Cook Islands 1988 Townsville Queensland Australia Lists the communities of Aboriginal Australians who were in attendance at the festival.

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.

Published December 1996