Indigenous Arts of the Pacific
Issue 16:4 | December 1996
Examines contemporary issues facing communities in the Pacific region. Art and economics, cross-cultural issues, politics and subsidy, festival and promotions are included in the overview which looks at Australian indigenous art, Maori art from New Zealand, art from Papua New Guinea, Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa.
In this issue
The Land made Visible: Native Title Now
An Alternative to the Art Market
Tandanya - Captivating Culture
New Developments for the Papua New Guinea National Museum
Art is Land: Land is Art - Talks with Banduk Marika
The Waka and the Cattle Truck
Pacific Wave: A Festival of Pacific Arts
Nucleus: Feeling Compromised
Maori Film Images and Intellectual Property Rights - A Breakthrough?
Contemporary Maori Architecture - The Case for the Untraditional
Taki Rua: Bi-cultural Theatre in Aotearoa
Telling it How it is: Pacific Islands Theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand
The Art of Survival: The Importance of Contemporary Theatre in Papua New Guinea
Polynesian Tattoo: A Shift in Meaning
Creativity in the Forest
Spirit Blong Bubu I Kam Bak [The Return of the Spirits of the Ancestors]
The Contemporary Highland Shield: Hybrid Forms in Papua New Guinea
Oceanic Arts Society of Sydney
Acting Out the Culture: The Making of Culturally Relevant Theatre, Papua New Guinea
Art and Ritual: Aina Asi A Mavaru Kavamu
Weaving the Old with the New: Textile Art Forms in Niugini
Dancing the Society: Performing Arts in the Solomon Islands
Educating Public Taste
Pacific Stories from New Caledonia
Soapstone Workshop
The Island Race in Aotearoa
Vaka - Only the Brave
Fiji: Artists Carve Out Their Own Future
Asia and Oceania Influences - Sydney
The World Over - Wellington
Darwin Festival - A Glimpse
Australia Goes to Samoa: 7th Pacific Festival of the Arts
Alternative Festival in Samoa
Collaboration - Zhou Xiaoping and Jimmy Pike
The Necessity of Craft ed Lorna Kaino
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia ed David Horton
Doin' the Limbo
Whetting the Appetite
The Silence which Howls
Funk Junk
Truth, Whose Truth?
Memories - Macabre and Magic
Resilient Modernism
From the Back Shed
Neo-colonialist Precipice
Touch Don't Touch