This
coming Sunday (19 August), there will be a Home AKLsymposium and book launch
Artists of Pacific heritage
have been making art in Auckland for five decades. Home AKL
reflects the significance of their contribution and traces creative exchanges
between generations.
Following migration across the
Pacific Ocean, artists looked to the past, to memories of life in their
homelands, long-practised art forms and the effects of diaspora. Today they
look to the present and the future while maintaining strong connections with the
past.
The idea of 'home' shifts with
every decade and this book illustrates how responses to place and belonging
change. Including the work of 29 artists and collectives whose heritage derives
from the Cook Islands, Fiji and Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu, Home AKL
is an important introduction to contemporary Pacific art.
The book will retail at
$40.
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