BLOOD + BONE // EMA TAVOLA // SOLO EXHIBITION
(All the best Em! Wish we were there. Lots of love T, J, N and L xx)
December 10, 2009
PACIFIC STORMS // OPENING TONIGHT // BRISBANE
Pacific Storms - Opens next week in Brisbane!
Beyond Pacific Art presents:
Pacific Storms – Brisbane
14 December 2009 – 1 January 2010
Open weekdays 6am – 6pm (excluding public holidays)
Waterfront Place Foyer, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane City (Riverside Ferry Stop)
Featuring artwork by leading Pacific Islander artists, Pacific Storms highlights the current issues of the Pacific region – climate change, globalisation, civil unrest, HIV/AIDS and many more – and reveals what lies beneath the sunshine, the leis and the stereotypical view of the Pacific Islands. Curated by Joycelin Leahy.
December 9, 2009
Fijian climate campaigner takes message to Poland
Leah Wickham, Greenpeace Volunteer
Day One of Copenhagen was punctuated by a number of passionate and emotional speeches, but the one which attracted yesterday’s headlines was by a young women from Fiji, Leah Wickham. Ms Wickham begged delegates to come to binding agreeements so that she and many young people like herself can look forward living in her island paradise.
After the first official press conference, young people from all over the world entered the auditorium holding up large scale building blocks which spelled out “10 million people expect a fair, ambitious and binding deal” to show leaders how important it is to get an effective climate deal.
Leah Wickham told Geraldine Coutts – from a train on her way to Poland and her next speech on climate change – that the attention has come as a bit of a shock.
Presenter: Geraldine Coutts
Speaker: Leah Wickham, climate witness and representative of TckTckTck and Greenpeace
December 8, 2009
Fijian soldier was shot dead while protecting Afghan elders
Fusilier Petero 'Pat' Suesue Photo: PA
A Fijian soldier described as a loyal warrior died after being shot by enemy forces while protecting a meeting of Afghan elders, an inquest heard.
Fusilier Petero ”Pat” Suesue, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was killed near Sangin, in Afghanistan, on May 22 while on foot patrol at around 1.30pm.
He was among a group of around 90 soldiers who were patrolling the area to provide a secure perimeter for a meeting of elders and important Afghan nationals.
An inquest heard today that Fus Suesue, 28, was shot in the abdomen as the platoon was preparing to replenish their equipment.
A series of small round shots were heard before Fus Suesue fell to the ground.
He was dragged behind the wall of a compound where his fellow soldiers gave first aid while under fire from enemy forces.
December 2, 2009
Island Treasures
“It might be the busiest time of year at CCAS but director David Broker managed to find a couple of days for The Big Island: Promoting Contemporary Pacific Art and Craft in Australia, a development workshop at the University of Wollongong. Two days of solid discussion concerning how he arts of Oceania might play a greater role in the overall scheme of Australia’s creative pursuits.”
December 2, 2009
Online gallery features indigenous art from the Pacific region
'the other APT' on In the Loop
Cybertribe is an online art gallery profiling the work of indigenous Pacific artists that conventional exhibitions overlook.
November 30, 2009
The Other APT – Curated by Jenny Fraser – Now Showing
the other APT
Following on from the successful show in 2006, this is an exhibition of alterNATIVE perspectives held in response to the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial at QAG and the QGOMA, in Queensland, Australia. the other APT features a range of artworks from Australian-based artists from various cultural backgrounds and artforms: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Australian South Sea Islander, Fijian, Maori, Tongan, Samoan, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and more. launching online from December 1, 2009. Curated by Jenny Fraser.
http://www.cybertribe.culture2.org/theotherapt
(Finally – the wait is over! I am so thrilled to be a part of this show! Love love love your work Jenny!!! TBx)
November 30, 2009
Annal Beads: Solo Show by Chantal Fraser opens Friday
Annal Beads:: Solo show by Chantal Fraser
OPENING:
6pm December 4 2009
Raw Space Galleries – 99 Melbourne St South Brisbane
The first solo exhibition by Brisbane based multi-media artist Chantal Fraser. Conjoining the annals of travel and tourism, this series shapes the parochial views of the tourist as subject.
A series of performative frames showcase a collection of neckpieces (Ula) from the artist’s Samoan family – gifts of significance, ceremony and value – alongside a collection of metallic beads thrown from the balconies of Bourbon St, New Orleans during Mardi Gras– an herogenous ritual that rewards the female tourist more beads on the exposing of breasts. Reinterpreting the significance of adornment the artist presents and plays with the disparate meanings of what it means to receive such objects from these heavily tourist promoted regions through flamboyancy, titillation and parody.
November 28, 2009
slapsista :: fly, unfurl and be free…
November 26, 2009
Big Ideas for a Big Island – Media Release
L-R, Torika Bolatagici, Joycelin Leahy, Jenny Fraser, Keren Ruki, Pam Zeplin
Critical workshop in Wollongong tests the waters on future directions for Pacific arts – By Maurice O’Riordan, Art Monthly Australia
A workshop intensive to share research and pool ideas related to the discussion and promotion of contemporary Pacific arts in Australia was this week hosted by the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at Wollongong University.
Australia, the Big Island in relation to the Pacific, generally looks to New Zealand when seeking to represent contemporary Pacific arts practice. Artists from smaller Pacific islands may be granted the occasional look-in, the workshop suggested, while Australian-based Pacific content is largely appreciated as ‘decoration’, with an emphasis on community- and tradition-based performance.
