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Many European trains provide the equivalent of our pullman cars, called Wagon-lits. On English trains, compartments similar to Wagon-lits are known as sleepers. A pullman in Britain gets a …
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Australian museum collections of Oceanic art and local community programmes increasingly emphasize continuity between the customary’ and contemporary’ but the latter enjoys minimal exposure in public art galleries outside …
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From northerly perspectives, the antipodean Pacific remains a remote elsewhere, even if art from this region is institutionally badged’ with a certain Biennale Club Class’ look (Fuller, cited in …
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Picturing the Pacific How has the Pacific been pictured over the centuries of colonial expansions into the region? Centuries of negative colonial perceptions of Oceanian art-forms as frozen in …
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If dominant definitions of urbanization include liv in permanent processes of transition, hybridisation and nomadisation’ and dwelling simultaneously in different time zones’ (Braidotti, cited in McCormick 2007: 3), then …
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Unlike conventional western art, Pacific arts are inclusive of people, performance and material production, embracing craft and everyday life practices as integral to creativity. Ironically, these values were espoused …
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Images of static indigeneity (and by implication, vulnerability) have been imposed upon Oceania by successive waves of colonialism (Thomas 2011) and are challenged by Pacific artists, writers, poets, performing …
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The status of Pacific artists in Australia and internationally is not surprising. Only in recent times has the Pacific Ocean been acknowledged as a globally-significant indicator of future climate, …