Vision and Re-vision: Imagining the Pacific Then and Now
Cnr Kitchener and Wellesley Streets, CBD, Auckland
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Join us for a hui to consider ideas generated by two interconnected exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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'Lisa Reihana: in Pursuit of Venus [infected]' presents a powerful, multiscreen panoramic video that breaks new ground technically and ideologically as it reconsiders and subverts Joseph Dufour & Cie’s widely distributed 1804–5 wallpaper, 'Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique' (The Native Peoples of the Pacific Ocean). The second exhibition, 'Printing the Pacific: 1696–1804', addresses the role 18th-century printmaking played in the making, manufacture and dissemination of new visual information about the Pacific and includes a reproduction of a segment of Dufour’s wallpaper.
'Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique' is the fulcrum of these affiliated exhibitions and will act as an important reference point during the hui discussions. At the time of the wallpaper’s creation Joseph Dufour described its purpose as one to ‘please the eye and to excite the imagination’. When first exhibited at the Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie in 1806 a critic described the wallpaper as ‘most curious’. Imagination and curiosity are central tenants to the ideas proposed by these two exhibitions and will be addressed during the day. Discussions will encircle around three themes: Narrative, Truth and Myth-making; Theft, Authenticity and Representation and Technologies, and Dissemination and Transmission.
Confirmed speakers include: Vivienne Webb (keynote), Dr Peter Brunt (Victoria University of Wellington), Lisa Reihana, David Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington), Dr Caroline Vercoe (University of Auckland), Mathew Norman (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), Nina Tonga (Te Papa Tongarewa) and Dr Ella Henry (AUT University).
Please register with a minimal booking fee of $10 per head to secure your place as capacity is limited. Afternoon tea will be provided.
Venue: Auckland Art Gallery Auditorium, lower ground level (use main entrance)
Supported by Tahi (a member firm of EY), AUT University, Creative New Zealand and VideoPro NZ.
Image: Jean-Gabriel Charvet (1750-1829) for Joseph Dufour & Cie (established 1797), 'Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique' (The Native Peoples of the Pacific Ocean), c1804 Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tâmaki, purchased 1995
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