cook islands maori (born 1947)
Over the years I’ve managed a number of interactive experiences within the Auckland Museum, as an audience and as a consultant; trading places as a site for discourse, and a location for making art.
This exhibition enables me to exercise yet another train of thought, devising notions of an Oceanic belonging.
Jim Vivieaere
Over the years I’ve managed a number of interactive experiences within the Auckland Museum, as an audience and as a consultant; trading places as a site for discourse, and a location for making art.
This exhibition enables me to exercise yet another train of thought, devising notions of an Oceanic belonging.
Jim Vivieaere
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this is not an ocean, this is a rented house
this is not a hand, this is a library this is not the sky, this is a grandfather clock this is not a child, this is a mirror 2007
digital video disc
duration 360 seconds, looped collection of the artist Jim Vivieaere has been creating artwork in museum spaces for two decades, which directly responds to how Pacific cultures are represented. This installation utilises a version of the sound-scape specifically created for his renowned touring exhibition Bottled Ocean (1994), which was the first group exhibit of contemporary Pacific art. The passages between water and sky, and the presence of the artist’s own children, invoke lyrical sensations of self and place. |
