Repositioning Pacific Arts: Artists, Objects, Histories: Proceedings of the VII International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Christchurch, New Zealand (Allen and Waite, eds.)

Billie Lythberg

doi:10.14434/mar.v10i2.21365

Abstract

This work is a book review considering the title Repositioning Pacific Arts: Artists, Objects, Histories: Proceedings of the VII International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association, Christchurch, New Zealand edited by Anne E. Allen and Deborah B. Waite.

Highlights

In March 2016, the Pacific Arts Association (PAA) returns to New Zealand for a meeting to be hosted in Auckland
A special double edition of the Journal of the Pacific Arts Association (Vol 14[1– 2] 2015) has brought together a selection of papers read at the last symposium (IX), held in Vancouver, Canada, in August 2013, and the proceedings of PAA 2003 have been published as Repositioning Pacific Arts (2014)
In the years that have elapsed since PAA 2003—and most in PAA symposia held in Rarotonga (2010) and Vancouver (2013)—Pacific artists, curators, and academic and traditional experts have attended PAA in increasing numbers to articulate their experiences and knowledge, and to express what it means to have “a shared ancestry and history that has been shaped by over a millennium of dynamic relationships of exploration, encounter and exchange” yet all too often be “absent from the discourse of Pacific art and visual culture.”

Summary

Introduction

In March 2016, the PAA returns to New Zealand for a meeting to be hosted in Auckland. Reviewed by Billie Lythberg In June 2003, the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, hosted the VII International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association (PAA) and launched a handsome volume of essays from the PAA’s “Festschrift in Honor of Philip Dark” held at the Field Museum in 1999.

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