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ethKnowcentrix exhibition

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ethKnowcentrix

museums inside the artist

Shigeyuki Kihara – George Nuku – Roseanna Raymond – Lisa Reihana

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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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Shigeyuki Kihara at the Met

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Talofa lava PACIFIC SUPERHEROES, its been awhile since the last post, but I think Noho Hewa deserves the attention its getting with some heavy traffic coming through. But now to even more conquering CREATIVE MISCHIEFS out there who are PACIFIC SUPERHEROES in their own right.

Shigeyuki Kihara a performance and visual artists of Samoan and Japanese parentage, has allured the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with tantalizing photographic colonial renditions with her dusky-geisha auspicious signature.

So I’m trying to sound like I know plenty about Yuki’s work from 24hrs ;) , but aren’t you empowered and intrigued to see and hear this suga is in NYC town ripping the scene up on 5th Avenue!!! Waaattt!!! You heard!!! Yup, be proud PACIFIC SUPERHEROES be proud!!! Shigeyuki is in town!!! And a p.s to the editor of Vogue, just say yes!!!

‘In an outstanding career move, Auckland-based artist Shigeyuki Kihara will encounter one of the world’s foremost art institutions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art when her solo exhibition opens in October.

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