Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists In The Diaspora
By Kate Harris.
Within Māori and Pacific dress cultures, clothes have pivotal political and social roles, and continually evolve within new contexts. The Pacific Sisters are a collective of New Zealand Pacific and Māori artists whose creative practice is both unabashedly traditional and boldly modern…
The Theatricality Of The Everyday: A Question Of Absorption In Contemporary Photography
By Annie Curtis
In the interest of portraying the utmost naturalism, immersion has long been employed by artists to suggest the unique quality of ‘being-in-the-world’ that defines our very existence. Indeed Heidegger explains his conception of ‘dasein,’ or human beings, as inseparable from the sphere in which they live, permanently ‘in pursuit’ of meaning rather than simply ‘being present’ as mere ‘entities’ or objects…
Contemporary Art and the Archive
By Emily James.
The archive exists as a site of power and subordination. This essay will argue that the contemporary art of Fred Wilson and Ingrid Berthon-Moine embark on processes of collection and engage archive concepts of the challenge, the question, and the discovery to delve directly into the power dynamics that dictate the original archives they critique…
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