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Hooper, Steven, Jacobs, Karen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1794-3078, Jessop, Maia and Nuku, George
(2012)
Encounters with Polynesia in Britain: Art, Ancestors, Artists and Curators.
Museum Anthropology, 35 (1).
pp. 10-22.
Abstract
The exhibition, Pacific Encounters: Art and Divinity in Polynesia 1760–1860, shown in 2006 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom, involved many Polynesians in opening and closing rituals and a program of artists-in-residence. The ancient artworks displayed, called taonga (“treasures”) in New Zealand Maori, were explicitly treated as embodiments of ancestors who were activated and enlivened by the ritual procedures and chanting in their vicinity. The relationship between ancestors, artworks, and descendants, particularly artists and ritual practitioners, is examined in the context of ethical and political debates about the role and location of such artworks, as many of them are held in museums and collections outside Polynesia. A new environment is explored using a conceptual model of kinship between the cultural descendants of makers and the cultural descendants of collectors, in which exhibitions can be vehicles for new productive collaborative relationships based on mutual respect.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art History and World Art Studies (former - to 2014) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Centres > Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas |
| Depositing User: | Katherine Humphries |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2012 10:45 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jun 2024 09:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40213 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1548-1379.2012.01118.x |
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