ARTHIST 217

Contemporary Pacific Art


Description

Focuses on work by contemporary Pacific artists, exploring the ways that they translate indigenous knowledge and urban experiences into gallery forms such as painting, installation, performance, film and video making. Themes such as migration and diaspora, language and memory, notions of homelands and return, and the creation of complex cultural identities will be explored.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline.

Digital Course Outlines for 2025 will be refreshed around November/December.

 

Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Caroline Vercoe

Recommended Reading

  • Sean Mallon and Pandora Pereira, eds. Pacific Art Niu Sila: The Pacific Dimension of Contemporary New Zealand Arts. New Zealand: Te Papa Press, 2002.
  • Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, eds. Art in Oceania: A New History. London: Thames and Hudson, 2012.
  • Melissa Chiu, ed. Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific. New York: Asia Society Museum, 2004.
  • Susan Cochrane. Beretara: Contemporary Pacific Art. Noumea: Centre Culture Tjibaou, 2001.
  • Karen Stevenson. The Frangipani is Dead: Contemporary Pacific Art in New Zealand. 1985-2002. New Zealand: Huia Press, 2008.
  • Ian McLean, ed. How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art. Brisbane: IMA, 2011.
  • Queensland Art Gallery. My Country. I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2013.

Assessment

Coursework + examination

Points

ARTHIST 217: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage I in Art History and 30 points passed

Restrictions

ARTHIST 317