Pacific Arts Aotearoa The powerful and dynamic legacy of Pacific arts in Aotearoa, as told by the artists themselves

by Lopesi, Lana

• ISBN13: 9781776950515
• ISBN10: 1776950518
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-09-24
• Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Summary

Dynamic, fresh, powerful; this is Pacific Arts in Aotearoa New Zealand

Pacific Arts Aotearoa tells the dynamic and powerful story of Pacific arts in Aotearoa New Zealand. This comprehensive account spans six decades of multidisciplinary Pacific creative genius, remembering the diverse, fresh and energetic contributions of Pacific artists to New Zealand, Oceania and the world.

Edited by leading Pacific writer and scholar Lana Lopesi, this book includes over 300 images and contributions from more than 120 artists, curators and community voices, providing new and previously unheard perspectives on this vast and growing legacy, in one volume.

Published in association with Pacific Arts, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa as part of the Pacific Arts Legacy Project, an initiative under the Pacific Arts Strategy.

Author Biography

Dr Lana Lopesi (MNZM) is an Assistant Professor in the department of indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. There she teaches across her research areas of Pacific Islander studies, Indigenous feminism and contemporary art. She is the author of False Divides (2018) and Bloody Woman (2021) which was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Lana is a co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (2022) and Pacific Spaces (2022)

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
11 INTRODUCTION
A Legacy Project
17 CHAPTER ONE
Early Outliers
67 CHAPTER TWO
Practising Endurance
133 CHAPTER THREE
Seeding the Vanua
177 CHAPTER FOUR
The Pacific Question
221 CHAPTER FIVE
Urban Pacific
271 CHAPTER SIX
Doing It Yourself
311 CHAPTER SEVEN
Y2K
357 CHAPTER EIGHT
International Waters
399 CHAPTER NINE
Enduring Fights
& Revolutionary
Tendencies
439 CHAPTER TEN
A New Pacific Question
477 CHAPTER ELEVEN
Niu Waves, Niu Voices
509 AFTERWORD
511 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
516 TIMELINE
521 GLOSSARY
523 CONTRIBUTORS
529 NOTES
537 INDEX