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Issue 220, June, 2009 Pacific  Don’t Pacify Me in AucklandAhilapalapa Rands, Lounge (detail of installation), 2009. In Don’t Pacify Me: Contemporary Pacific Art, curated by Charmaine ‘Ilaiu. Showing from June 25 to July 10, at St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz  South Style in OtaraVinesh Kumaran, Francis Falaniko, 2009, colour photograph. Images of Manukau youth’s personal style, show alongside Streetwear designs from two Manukau artists, Ofa Mafi and Allen Vili, in South Style at Fresh Gallery, Otara, New Zealand. Until 6 June. Image courtesy Manukau City Council. MyFace in Otara JACQUI DURRANTIn her new photographic exhibition, MyFace (Shop 5, 46 Fairmall, Otara Town Centre, until 4 July), Janet Lilo continues her exploration of positive and negative representations of identity as formulated by the audience and its members on social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and YouTube. Employing images from such online spaces, Lilo’s work comments on the subjects and their viewers to create ‘a curious tension between public and private space’. Themes range from the sexual and strange to the mundane, with underlying tones of familiarity and humor. The photography also gives serious reflection to the preoccupation people have with ‘editing their identity and self-representation’. Lilo was recently included in the major group exhibition, Le Folauga, at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan.  Pacific Storms in BundabergEric Bridgeman, Black Mary Gapa, 2008, C-type photograph. Pacific Storms is showing at Storm over Bundaberg JACQUI DURRANTPacific Storms at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery (BRAG), 3 June until 13 July, is bringing together over 30 artists from both Pacific Island countries and within the Australian diaspora to mount a collaborative exhibition focused on issues challenging the Pacific, including social and environmental concerns like HIV- AIDS, climate change and logging. It will feature new and well-known Pacific artists such as Daniel Waswas (PNG), Jeffrey and Mairi Feeger (PNG), and Paskua (Tahiti). Many key works have not been exhibited in Australia before. ‘We want Australia and the world to see our art from a different perspective,’ says Pacific curator Joycelin Leahy. ‘Our traditional heritage and customs remain within us and can be interpreted through our values and our sense of place. But our drive and passion for how the changes are affecting us is very strong.’ BRAG is an appropriate venue because of Bundaberg’s significant historical association with Pacific people, particularly through those Islanders whose labour gave backbone to the region’s sugar cane plantations, and whose descendents live in the region today. |
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