PACIFIC SUPERHEROES

Lets go people!!! Supporting wats all gud n da hood and the hard work of Craig Fasi for keeping this running over the years. All stories for us by us 100%. Check the dates:

Sunday 7th March, Galatos, Auckland City

Tuesday 16th, OMAC, Otara, Manukau City

Thursday 18th, Corbans Estate Art Centre, Waitakere City

For more info at www.mic.org.nz

… Pacific Superheroes owt!!! 2010 we on attack! Mauri Ora famz!

After the tragic lose of life in last weeks tsunami that hit our Pacific Islands of Samoa and Tonga, NZ artists have banded together to hold a relief concert for Samoa’s request for aid. An amazing line up of local artists PACIFIC SUPERHEROES WORLDWIDE at anytime!!! So get there famz!!! This in respect to those tragically lost and more importantly for those living survivors who need our support to recovery!!! Superhero UP!!! click here for ALL those tickets your gonna buy,  and lets make it a SELL OUT manuia!

ethKnowcentrix

museums inside the artist

Shigeyuki Kihara – George Nuku – Roseanna Raymond – Lisa Reihana

Check it out 10 days to go UK famz get to it, PACIFIC SUPERHERO up and support whats good in your hood! There is a private viewing/opening to this on the 9th Sept so arohamai if you didn’t get an invite go find a friend that did! But there’s plenty to see, do and interact with these culturally inspiring, proud to represent Aotearoa and the Pacific Islands worldwide, hot Dam!! Artists!!!  Get to it!!! Mauri Ora , kia ora Precious.

The first exhibition of its kind in London, ethKnowcentrix Museums Inside the
Artist features mixed media and performance work exploring the idea of the
ethnographic gaze, by four leading artists from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the Pacific Islands.

Visions of exotic beauty and mystery have dominated British perceptions of the Pacific Islands since the time of Captain Cook. Fuelled by the fantastic narratives of returning explorers, anthropologists and artists, this exotic imagery provided the basis for museum displays and underpinned the emerging discipline of ethnography (the classification of people and cultures). Yet, while the Europeans were busy imagining ‘Noble Savages’ and ‘Dusky Maidens’, the Pacific Islanders were looking back at them, negotiating, exchanging and sharing goods and ideas on their own terms.

This exhibition reconsiders the spaces of meeting, looking and representing across cultures, and explores how the ethnographic gaze has been reciprocated and challenged. With acerbic wit, these works promise to radically subvert the European legacy of museum classification, reclaim popular imagery of Pacific Island culture, and offer fresh perspectives for a shared global future.

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Check this owt PACIFIC SUPERHEROES find inspiration in the art of Emory Douglas who will be here for a artist residency at Auckland University!!!  So check it out famz for some urban/political art exhibiting 21 August til 3 October at Gus Fisher Gallery. Mauri Ora

‘The former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party will deliver a series of public lectures and mount a solo exhibition when he visits New Zealand this month as the Elam International Artist in Residence at The University of Auckland.

Emory Douglas created the striking graphic images that came to represent the Black Panther Party in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s. The group was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, and was one of the first organisations in US history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation.

Symbolising the civil unrest of the times, Emory Douglas’ images were used to illustrate the Black Panther, the party’s weekly newspaper. Over the years, the Black Panther’s “Revolutionary Artist” made countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, which were reproduced in the paper and distributed as prints, posters, cards and sculptures.

Thanks in large part to Emory Douglas’ powerful visuals the Black Panther Party delivered a forceful message to a community ravaged by poverty, police brutality, and poor living conditions. The organisation was discontinued in the early 1980s.

Emory Douglas is today recognised as an artist in his own right, and his works have been mounted in solo exhibitions around the world and included in the 2008 Sydney Biennale. Currently, he has a major retrospective exhibit on display at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. Continue reading ‘The Art of Revolution by Emory Douglas’

“Ethnic cleansing isn’t just something that they do physically to people, it’s something that happens in the mind.”

This was said by Haunani-Kay Trask in an onscreen interview in the documentary “Noho Hewa.” Haunani goes on to say that ethnic cleansing establishes within a people’s mind-set that “You have no place to live. You do not have a home, so you do not exist.” This manao (thought) is what Anne Keala Kelly is trying to capture in her first feature length documentary, “Noho Hewa.”

Fuuuuuu sounds like something we gotta see, support and get educated on, for what the tourists don’t see while visiting Hawaii. Kia kaha whanau, support all our PACIFIC SUPERHEROES out there fighting the good fight and get to the screenings in Manukau, Rotorua and Porirua all next week!!! And theres all these awesome Directors and storytellers who are here for workshops along with their films with the patronage of Merata Mita!!! Flash aye!!! So get along pplz Mauri Ora whanau, all details as follows … p.s thank you Tawera! Continue reading ‘Noho Hewa Screening at the Aotearoa Film Festival 2009′