2012
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Spring 24(1) Articles ‘I Hē Koe? Placing Rapa Nui Development and Negative Constructions of Ethnic Identity: Responses to Asian Fisheries Investment in the Pacific Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance Dialogue “Vot Long Stret Man”: Personality, Policy, and the Election of Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu 2008 “We Were Still Papuans:” A 2006 Interview with Epeli Hau‘ofa Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 Book and Media Reviews Tahiti: Regards intérieurs, edited by Elise Huffer and Bruno Saura This IS Hawai‘i [exhibition] The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu, by John Patrick Taylor The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I, by Ōishi Matashichi On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation, by Niko Besnier Featured Artist: Andy Lele‘isiuao
In March 2010, Andy Leleisi‘uao was unable to attend the opening of Manuia, a group exhibition in New York, and offered a statement to be read in his absence. It was not read out, but it symbolizes the honesty in his work. |
Fall 24(2) Articles Pills, Potions, Products: Kava’s Transformations in New and Nontraditional Contexts Postcolonial Anxieties and the Browning of New Zealand Rugby The Trauma of Goodness in Patricia Grace’s Fiction Dialogue Sniffing Oceania’s Behind Resources Virtually There: Open Access and the Online Growth of Pacific Dissertations and Theses Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2011 Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2011 Book and Media Reviews The Orator/O Le Tulafale [feature film] Pacific Island Artists: Navigating the Global Art World, edited by Karen Stevenson New Caledonia Twenty Years On: 1988–2008, edited by Jean-Marc Regnault and Viviane Fayaud Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration, by Lola Quan Bautista Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific, by Judith A Bennett Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing Peace in Bougainville, by John Braithwaite, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Reddy, and Leah Dunn Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, by Michael Goddard The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia, by Nicholas A Bainton Villagers and the City: Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, edited by Michael Goddard Featured Artist: Ani O’Neill
Ani O’Neill’s art practice spans craft, installation, object making, and performance. Born in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, in 1971, Ani graduated from Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 1994. Her early sculptural artworks delved deeply into her experience as an “Urban Pacific Islander.” This was inspired by her maternal grandmother’s traditions based on Cook Islands material and ceremonial culture and firmly nestled—somewhat comfortably—into the big-cityscape of Ponsonby, Auckland. Her work continues to reaffirm the cultural importance of these handcraft and survival skills to New Zealand and international audiences. Her inclusion in such major exhibitions as “The Nervous System” (1995), “Telecom Prospect” (2001), “Bottled Ocean” (1995), the Second Asia Pacific Triennial (1996), and the Biennale of Sydney (1998) contributed to the meteoric rise in her international profile and status as one of New Zealand’s bright art talents. Ani has collaborated with many artists in festival performances, presentations, interactive exhibition installations, and workshops—independently and as a member of Pacific Sisters. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and residencies throughout New Zealand, the Pacific, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Since 2008, she has been based in her mother’s homeland, Rarotonga, working as an art teacher at Tereora College. Ani and her husband, Croc, a tatau artist, are currently building a home in Muri, Rarotonga. Together they hope to share this space with visiting artists from the wider Pacific and the world, in a very relaxed residency program: BYO hammock.
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