In Pursuit of Venus

In Pursuit of Venus
Author: Lisa Reihana
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780864633019

"To accompany the exhibition of the new multi-media work by artist Lisa Reihana in Pursuit of Venus (infected) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki"--Publisher information.

Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Lisa Reihana

Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Lisa Reihana
Author: Qinyi Lim
Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2024-09-26
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9819400600

This catalogue showcases GLISTEN, a kinetic sculpture by Lisa Reihana, an Aotearoa New Zealander artist. Activated by wind and sunlight, the sculpture mirrors its environment with shimmers across its surfaces, inviting interaction within its triangular space. GLISTEN honours the weaving traditions of Southeast Asia and Aotearoa, allowing Songket and Māori Tāniko patterns to meet and coexist in a vibrant and harmonious visual celebration. The publication includes a curatorial essay, a dialogue with the artist about her creative process, and stunning photographs of GLISTEN. A foldout insert, designed to reflect the essence of GLISTEN, allows readers to peruse the intricate designs, accompanied by annotated text.

Lisa Reihana

Lisa Reihana
Author: Lisa Reihana
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9780864633125

Digital Marae

Digital Marae
Author: Rhana Devenport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2009
Genre: Maori (New Zealand people) in art
ISBN: 9780908848324

This richly illustrated, modestly sized casebound book is devoted to Digital Marae; a major ongoing photographic and video project by one of New Zealand's foremost artists Lisa Reihana. Edited by Govett-Brewster Director and curator Rhana Devenport, contributors are leading Maori architectural historian Deidre Brown; Melbourne-based curator and writer Victoria Lynn and cultural theorist and sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis; and Te Papa curator Megan Tamati-Quennell. Additionally, an extended interview with Reihana by Devenport reveals the complex layers of influence that inform this ambitious and significant work.

Art and Nature in the Anthropocene

Art and Nature in the Anthropocene
Author: Susan Ballard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000349586

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable—turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Yhonnie Scarce, Joyce Campbell, Lisa Reihana, Katie Paterson, Taryn Simon, Susan Norrie, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Ken + Julia Yonetani, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Angela Tiatia, and Hito Steyerl and with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics that challenges fixed concepts of nature in the Anthropocene. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, narrative nonfiction, digital and media art, and the environmental humanities.

Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories

Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories
Author: Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2022-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429018444

In this second book of her trailblazing trilogy, Marsha Meskimmon proposes that decolonial, ecocritical, feminist art’s histories can unravel the anthropocentric legacies of Eurocentric universalism, to create transformative conversations between and across many and more-than-human worlds. Engaging with the ecologies and genealogies – worlds and stories – that constitute the plural knowledge projects of transnational feminisms and art’s transhemispheric histories, the book is written through two critical figurations: transcanons and trans-scalar ecologies. Materializing art’s histories as radical practices of disciplinary disobedience, the volume demonstrates how planetary feminisms can foster interdependent flourishing as they story pluriversal worlds, and world pluriversal stories, with art. This is essential reading for students and researchers in art history, theory and practice, visual culture studies, feminism and gender studies, environmental humanities and cultural geography. The Trilogy:Transnational Feminisms, Transversal Politics and Art: Entanglements and Intersections Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories: Ecologies and Genealogies Transnational Feminisms and Posthuman Aesthetics: Resonance and Riffing Please see the first book in this series here.

Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes

Contemporary Art and Unforgetting in Colonial Landscapes
Author: Kate McMillan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030172902

This book explores the work of artists based in the global south whose practices and methods interrogate and explore the residue of Empire. In doing so, it highlights the way that contemporary art can assist in the un-forgetting of colonial violence and oppression that has been systemically minimized. The research draws from various fields including memory studies; postcolonial and decolonial strategies of resistance; activism; theories of the global south; the intersection between colonialism and the Anthropocene, as well as practice-led research methodologies in the visual arts. Told through the author’s own perspective as an artist and examining the work of Julie Gough, Yuki Kihara, Megan Cope, Yhonnie Scarce, Lisa Reihana and Karla Dickens, the book develops a number of unique theories for configuring the relationship between art and a troubled past.

On Display

On Display
Author: Anna Smith
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780864734549

A group of New Zealand's leading cultural studies scholars provide their perspectives on the politics of display in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Philip Armstrong, Roger Blackley, Kyla McFarlane, Annie Potts, and Paul Williams, among others, showcase their thinking about cultural activities--looking and showing, viewing and arranging--that are deeply embedded in ideology. From the antique plaster casts held by Auckland Museum to the wild foods on New Zealand's West Coast, the essays pursue a variety of trajectories on how New Zealanders display themselves and what they profess and contest in their collective representations.