2012 24(1) & 24(2)
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| Spring 24(1) Articles ‘I Hē Koe? Placing Rapa Nui Forrest Wade Young Development and Negative Constructions of Ethnic Identity: Responses to Asian Fisheries Investment in the Pacific Kate Barclay Choreographing Difference: The (Body) Politics of Banaban Dance Katerina Martina Teaiwa Dialogue “Vot Long Stret Man”: Personality, Policy, and the Election of Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu 2008 Benedicta Rousseau “We Were Still Papuans:” A 2006 Interview with Epeli Hau‘ofa Nicholas Thomas Political Reviews Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 John R Haglelgam, David W Kupferman, Kelly G Marsh, Samuel F McPhetres, Donald R Shuster, Tyrone J Taitano Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2011 Lorenz Gonschor, Hapakuke Pierre Leleivai, Margaret Mutu, Forrest Young Book and Media Reviews Tahiti: Regards intérieurs, edited by Elise Huffer and Bruno Saura Images et pouvoirs dans le Pacifique, edited by Viviane Fayaud and Jean-Marc Regnault Tahiti Beloved and Forbidden: Tahiti Herehia, Tahiti Rahuia, by Marie Claude Teissier-Landgraf Reviewed by Alexander Mawyer This IS Hawai‘i [exhibition] Reviewed by A Marata Tamaira The Statues That Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island, by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo Reviewed by Julie S Field The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu, by John Patrick Taylor Reviewed by Lisa Humphrey The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I, by Ōishi Matashichi Reviewed by Holly M Barker On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation, by Niko Besnier Reviewed by Cluny Macpherson Featured Artist: Andy Lele‘isiuao Sepatua Village, Ufological Island of Samoa (2003), by Andy Leleisi‘uao 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 Jonathan D Baker Postcolonial Anxieties and the Browning of New Zealand Rugby Andrew D Grainger, Mark Falcous, and Joshua I Newman The Trauma of Goodness in Patricia Grace’s Fiction Irene Visser Dialogue Sniffing Oceania’s Behind Vicente M Diaz Resources Virtually There: Open Access and the Online Growth of Pacific Dissertations and Theses Stuart Dawrs Political Reviews The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2011 Nic Maclellan Melanesia in Review: Issues and Events, 2011 David Chappell, Jon Fraenkel, Gordon Leua Nanau, Howard Van Trease, Muridan Widjojo Book and Media Reviews The Orator/O Le Tulafale [feature film] Review forum edited by April K Henderson; Reviews by Emelihter Kihleng, Teresia K Teaiwa, Sadat Muaiava, Tamasailau Suaalii-Sauni, Myra Mcfarland-Tautau, and Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin Pacific Island Artists: Navigating the Global Art World, edited by Karen Stevenson Reviewed by Katherine Higgins New Caledonia Twenty Years On: 1988–2008, edited by Jean-Marc Regnault and Viviane Fayaud La France à l’opposé d’elle-même: essais d’histoire politique de l’Océanie, volume 1, by Jean-Marc Regnault Reviewed by David Chappell Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration, by Lola Quan Bautista Reviewed by Manuel Rauchholz Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific, by Judith A Bennett Reviewed by Paul D’Arcy Reconciliation and Architectures of Commitment: Sequencing Peace in Bougainville, by John Braithwaite, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Reddy, and Leah Dunn Reviewed by Katharina Schneider Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, by Michael Goddard Reviewed by Barbara Anderson The Lihir Destiny: Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia, by Nicholas A Bainton Reviewed by Alex Golub Villagers and the City: Melanesian Experiences of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, edited by Michael Goddard Reviewed by Paul Jones Featured Artist: Ani O’Neill The Buddy System (2004, 2006), by 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. |