Pasifika styles :  artists inside the museum / 
edited by Rosanna Raymond and Amiria Salmond. 
 - xiii, 146 pages :  colour illustrations, portraits ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/> Published to accompany the exhibition Pasifika Styles, held 5 May 2006 to 23 February 2008 at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Preface /  Acknowledgements --  Pasifika Styles, a waiata /  Introduction /  Islands of opportunity: Pasifika Styles and museums /  An interview with Lisa Taouma /  Pasifika Styles: where the bellbird sings /  He Tautoko (2006): a new media installation /  Relational understandings: connecting people and things through Pasifika Styles /  Fieldwork in a glass case: artistic practice and museum ethnology /  Fusion/confusion /  Some anxious moments: the mechanics and pragmatics of a collaborative exhibition /  The Pasifika Styles visiting artists programme /  Tikanga Māori and art /  Awakening sleeping objects /  Kōrero mai /  Dad's chair /  Pasifika Styles: a visual essay /  Pasifika Styles exhibition: list of artists and works.  Nicholas Thomas --  Che Wilson --  Rosanna Raymond and Amiria Salmond --  Deidre Brown --  edited by Amiria Salmond --  Billie Lythberg --  Lisa Reihana --  Anita Herle --  Carine Ayélé Durand --  Reuben Paterson --  Mark Elliott --  Sarah-Jane Harknett --  Che Wilson --  Fanny Wonu Veys --  Sarah Robbins --  Niki Hastings-McFall --  Kerry Brown --  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15. 
<br/><br/> "In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles, a groundbreaking experiment in the display of Pacific Art. Installing their works in cases next to taonga or treasures collected on the voyages of Cook and Vancouver, the artists flung open the stores of the museum to bring more of the museum's unparalleled Oceanic collections to light. At the opening of the exhibition, the song of ancient instruments played by contemporary musicians called historic artefacts to life, heralding a new era of collaborative curatorship in ethnographic museums. Over the next two years, visiting artists continued to bring vitality to the collections, offering workshops, seminars, public activities and a festival of performing arts. This book describes Pasifika Styles, from the perspectives of artists, museum professionals and scholars involved in this pioneering project, placing it in the context of current debates about museums, cultural property and art"--Back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1877372609 9781877372605 0947595171 9780947595173 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, New Zealand--Exhibitions<br/>Art, Pacific Island--New Zealand--Exhibitions<br/>Museum exhibits<br/>Exhibitions<br/>Waka toi
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>704.03995093