Oceanic Arts Society of Sydney

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palawa kani: Expressing the power of language in art and the museum context
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Zoe Rimmer and Theresa Sainty

Published 01 June 2020
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Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings 90 years on
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Rebecca Carland

Published 01 June 2020
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Looking for murnong
Feature
Lou Bennett and Romaine Moreton

Published 01 June 2020
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Kin‑dling and other radical relationalities
Feature
Emily Johnson and Karyn Recollet

Published 01 June 2020
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Making Inuit art in the moment
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asinnajaq

Published 01 June 2020
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Notes from Kahoʻolawe, Ka Paeʻāina o Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea
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Drew Kahuaina Broderick and Josh Tengan

Published 01 June 2020
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Weaving memory, living embodiment
Feature
Freja Carmichael

Published 01 June 2020
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Knowledge positions in Aotearoa and Turtle Island art museums
Feature
Léuli Eshraghi

Interview with First Nations curators Kathleen Ash‐Milby (Portland Art Museum), Maia Nuku (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Nigel Borell (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki).

Published 01 June 2020

Describes the establishment and membership of this new society.

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New Developments for the Papua New Guinea National Museum
Feature
Barry Craig

Brief article outlining the current directions and focus for the PNG Museum and Art Gallery in Port Moresby.

Published December 1996
Taki Rua: Bi-cultural Theatre in Aotearoa
Feature
Mere Boynton

Taki Rua Theatre has been at the cutting edge of indigenous theatre since its inception in 1983. It has now produced a season of Maori plays in te reo Maori (Maori language).

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
Truth, Whose Truth?
Review
Ray Spiteri

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

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
Contemporary Maori Architecture - The Case for the Untraditional
Feature
Deidre Brown

One of the most insidious myths about contemporary Maori architecture is that it does not exist, since 'traditional' Maori building design has been influenced by colonial architecture. Looks at contemporary issues in Maori architecture.

Published December 1996
Tandanya - Captivating Culture
Feature
Stephanie Britton

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

Published December 1996
The Island Race in Aotearoa
Feature
Jim Vivieaere

Today the art of the Pacific Islanders is still trapped within its category. The display cases of the institutions have not been shattered. Yet the very act of exhibiting demonstrates that the making and the appreciation of art is a dynamic process. Institutions are caught by a need to both legitimise themselves and acknowledge (and perhaps attempt to control) the art of the migrant communities.

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
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
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia ed David Horton
Book Review
Katrina Power

Book review Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia with companion CD Rom
Edited by David Horton
Aboriginal Studies Press for AIATSIS
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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
 
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