Vaka - Only the Brave

Cover of Vaka - Only the Brave
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Wardlipari Homeriver: Vulnerable observations
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Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien and Ali Gumillya Baker

Published 01 March 2019
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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
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Julie Ewington

Published 01 March 2019
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Hi-vis commodities: A body corporate's toxic economy
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Tessa Laird with Debris Facility

Published 01 March 2019
Churchie
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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge
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Amelia Wallin

Published 01 March 2019
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Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

Published 01 March 2019
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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

Published 01 December 2018
ACE Open
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

Published 01 December 2018
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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018

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

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Creativity in the Forest
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Christine Delany

In 1994, the small Balai community of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, commenced paper making which led to the development of printmaking. Small enterprises and ecotourism may well be the future of these small island communities.

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
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
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
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
Collaboration - Zhou Xiaoping and Jimmy Pike
Feature
Fotis Kapetopoulos

Chinese Australian artist Zhou Xiaoping and Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike exhibit collaborative works in China later in 1996. The author discusses Zhou's new work and his collaboration with Jimmy Pike.

Published December 1996
Educating Public Taste
Feature
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.

Published December 1996
Taki Rua: Bi-cultural Theatre in Aotearoa
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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
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
RRP $150

Published December 1996
Soapstone Workshop
Feature
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
Touch Don't Touch
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Mary Knights

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