PAA Announcements

He Reo / Voices – Group Show
July 23  – August 27 , 2010
Mangere Community Arts Outreach Service

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'Pull, Poke, Fold' by Wendy Kawabata
July 15 - August 29, 2010
Corban Estate Arts Centre

Renowned International Artist Wendy Kawabata brings exhibition ‘Pull, Poke, Fold’ from Honolulu, Hawaii to the Corban Estate Arts Centre 15 July – 29 August.  read more »

Diaspora (a dispersion of people from their homeland), a solo exhibition by Ernest Aurora
July 16 - August 7, 2010
Fresh Gallery Otara, Otara Community Courtyard, Otara

Ernest Auora’s reflective collection Diaspora came about through a journey of self-discovery that was made possible through the revival of Pacific arts within this generation.

In this exhibition, Auora expresses his understanding of the migration of Polynesians to Aotearoa through reliving the migration process.  read more »

PIMA (Pacific Islands Museum Association) Launches New Website July 15, 2010!  read more »

Pacific Arts
The Journal of the Pacific Arts Association
NS 9 2010
NOW AVAILABLE!

If you have not yet paid 2010 dues and would like to receive the Pacific Arts journal as a benefit of PAA membership, please visit Membership to pay online.

We hope you have enjoyed Pacific Arts, NS 9 2010, with feature articles focusing on Sepik painting, Maori art, and a Pacific artist's perspective. Contributors include: Christian Kaufmann, Patricia Owen, Max Quanchi, and Jean-Louis Boglio.

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Call for Session Proposals: PAA at CAA, 2012
February 22-25, 2012, Los Angeles
Deadline: August 15, 2010  read more »

The University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, recently appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Anthropology Anthropology, Sociology & Archaeology, Dr. Nicolas Garnier.

Garnier, author of a PhD thesis on the ritual system and the art of Chambri, a hot spot of Sepik art, is teaching in English and finds that publications in English on the Arts of the Pacific are hard to come by in Port Moresby. He would like to establish contact with members of PAA.  read more »

Art as Contact with the Ancestors by Pauline van der Zee

Art as contact with the ancestors is a recent comparative study of the different artistic expressions of the Asmat and the neighbouring Kamoro. The analysis is based on a study of the Asmat and Kamoro collections of the Tropenmuseum Amsterdam. The chosen approach emphasizes the relationship between art, rituals and mythology.  read more »

Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua by Jan Pouwer

A configurational analysis comparing Kamoro and Asmat

This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat(40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, Indonesia. The comparison, showing substantial differences as well as striking similarities, contributes to a deeper understanding of both cultures.  read more »

Sudseeoasen Leben und uberleben im WestPazifik
Edited by Ingrid Heerman

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