Vaka - Only the Brave

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Risky business: Engaging adolescents at the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Kylie Neagle

Published 01 September 2019
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MCAD Manila: Learning, sharing and conversation
Feature
Joselina Cruz and Paula Acuin

Published 01 September 2019
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Museum MACAN: Critical conversations through art
Feature
Aaron Seeto

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Desert Mob
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Falling in love (Or is the curatorial a methodology?)
Feature
Tara McDowell

Published 01 September 2019
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Being an artist and an art teacher
Feature
Henry Ward

Published 01 September 2019
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Trying to be at home in the world: New parameters for art education
Feature
Gert Biesta

Published 01 September 2019
NAVA
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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
Feature
Una Rey

Published 01 September 2019
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Vanishing into action: Art beyond the contemporary
Feature
Alasdair Foster

Published 01 September 2019

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

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Maori Film Images and Intellectual Property Rights - A Breakthrough?
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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
Telling it How it is: Pacific Islands Theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand
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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.

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From the Back Shed
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Exhibition review House and Home
Anne Neil and Steve Tepper
Fremantle Art Centre galleries,
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25 May - 16 June 1996

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The Land made Visible: Native Title Now
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Doreen Mellor

Written with Vincent Megaw. Looks at land claims and the role of artworks in these claims in the context of the exhibition 'Native Titled Now' shown as part of the Telstra Festival of Arts 1996. Good overview of indigenous art practice and talks about artists such as Raymond Arone Meeks, Lin Onus, Gordon Bennett, Alice Hinton-Bateup, Avril Quaill, Kerry Giles, Daphne Naden, Mick Namarari, Turkey Tolson, Danie Mellor, Jonathan Kumintjara Brown, Clifford Possum, Ellen Jose, Lindsay Bird Mpetyane, Heather Shearer and Kathleen Wallace.

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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
Soapstone Workshop
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Denise Tiavouane

April 1996 at the Pouebo Town Hall northern New Caledonia. A sculptural tradition has always been alive in this area so a workshop was held to explore the use of soapstone sculpture.

Published December 1996
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
An Alternative to the Art Market
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Tom Byra Mixie Mosby

The market must acknowledge its role in the commidification of indigenous cultures through cultural objects....What the market must acknowledge is the relationship of interdependency which exists between itself and the artists that it promotes and as such, the market must ensure that its actions do not prove detrimental to the artist and the community in the long run.

Published December 1996
Oceanic Arts Society of Sydney
Feature
Chris Koziel

Describes the establishment and membership of this new society.

Published December 1996
Neo-colonialist Precipice
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Exhibition review Secret Places
Sieglinde Karl, Hazel Smith, Kate Hamilton, Ron Nagorka
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Touring regional Australia through Contemporary Art Services Tasmania and the national Exhibitions Touring Scheme.

Published December 1996
Educating Public Taste
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Lawrence Foanaota

The National Museum's role in the development of contemporary art in the Solomon Islands. Artists Dick Taumata, Kuai Maueha, Frank Haikiu, Rex Mahuta, Jack Saemala and Billy Vina are discussed.

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The Contemporary Highland Shield: Hybrid Forms in Papua New Guinea
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The author examines shield collected in 1995 to discuss issues fundamental to the introduction of the art of emergent societies in an international art context. Issues such as the definition of art and aesthetics, art versus craft, function of art in the various contexts etc...

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