Te Moana nui a Kiwa
This Aotearoa / New Zealand issue considers Moana today and features creative translations of customary arts from rural or island to urban contexts. See upcoming launches in Christchurch and Auckland.
Special thanks to Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai and Luisa Tora for developing Moana content. Garry Nichols from Toi Māori has been very helpful, as have the local representatives on the editorial board, Damian Skinner and Warren Feeney.
This issue developed out of a roundtable at Objectspace in December 2016. From this emerged the focus on the plastic lei as a customary object that has adapted to a diasporic urban setting. It reflects a cultural resilience and invention that can be found across the wide expanse of Moana.
The cover image is from Reina Sutton who features in the online exhibition.
Aotearoa
Weaving koha by Kohai Grace
Tears of Tāwhirimātea: Carvings by Todd Couper by Karl Chitham
The Handshake journey: I am the water and the water is me by Neke Moa
Taurangi by Keri-Mei Zagroblena
Michael Parekowhai’s Ten Guitars and Lighthouse by Warren Feeney
He Tupare o ka Kupu by Andrew Last
Moana
elinpwur by Emelihter Kihleng
Te Moana a nui a Kiwa: A sōlevu by Luisa Tora
The Mis-Education of Moana Arts by Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai
What we practice in private by Ioana Gordon-Smith
Tending relations: Lisa Reihana’s lei epic by Tessa Laird
Pearls for the people in Fiji by Neke Moa
‘My Grandmother’s Hands’ – Ōtautahi Korerotia. by Bojana Rimbovska
Hands on culture
Embodied history: Remaking and returning the midi to the Tolai by Lisa Hilli
Kete photography by Kirsten Lyttle
Taonga and photography in the post-treaty settlement era: A case study of photograms by Mark Adams and Areta Wilkinson by Damian Skinner
Casting shadows: Areta Wilkinson and Mark Adams at the National by Harriet Litten
Tuhirangi writes on the sky by Michelle Montgomery
Knot Touch: From greenhouse to gallery by Jaqui Knowles
Knot thinking: The Boorhaman residency by Chaco Kato
Composing decomposition: An exhibition by Louiseann King by Clare Needham
Visiting Christopher Duncan’s studio/shop in Auckland by Jane Groufksy
I like reality, it doesn’t terrify me. by Kristin D’Agostino
Lei at large
Rowan Panther by Tryphena Cracknell
Na noqu salusalu: Garlands in Fiji by Tarisi Vundilo
The lei, the garland and the daisy chain by Fran Allison
Contemporary lei and body adornment from the Torres Strait Islands by Simone LeAmon
Island Welcome by Belinda Newick
A Shanghai lei over: the plastic jewellery of Lauren Simeoni by Katharine Ahern
Mala: the garlands of India by Mitraja Vyas
The unique beadworks of the Embera Chami Tribe of Colombia by Ana Maria Parada
Place matters
Sgraffito Country: The ceramic art of Penny Evans by Freja Carmichael
And They Lived Happily Ever After: Object narratives from a land far away by Sahr Bashir
Hellenic connections by Vicky Tsaconas
Creativity vs. conformity: Rethinking design education in southeast Asia by Sali Sasaki
Anthea Boesenberg by Mark Stiles
Mosaic tile museum by Nodoka Murayama
Gallery VOICE-Ushida Collection by Tomoko Kawakami
