Kia Ora Koutou
I was lucky to have hear James give a talk while I was in Auckland.
If you take the time, make time to take in what he does, it is mind blowing.
If anyone is in Wellington, I strongly recommend this.
na, Sonja
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Date:
Thursday 14 May 2009
Time:
8am – 4pm
Location:
Amphitheatre, Level 1 - Outside
Entry:
Free
UPDATE:
We are really pleased to announce that James Luna is up and about again
after illness and we have rescheduled his One Day Sculpture project Urban
(Almost) Rituals for 14 May 2009, 8am – 4pm.
Native American artist James Luna (Luiseño, Pooyukitchchum/Ipai) will present
his work Urban (Almost) Rituals
in the Te Papa Amphitheatre. This newly-developed
performance/installation is about native survival in urban settings,
and was commissioned by Te Papa as the Museum’s contribution to the One
Day Sculpture project.
The day and the work will unfold from 8am on 14 May, in the Te Papa
Amphitheatre. In the event of bad weather, the event will take place in Te
Papa's Soundings Theatre.
Costumed in his self-described character of the Shame Man, Luna will
perform a series of actions and rituals as he forms a spiral, acting as
circus ringmaster, court jester, and occasional merchant of venom.
James Luna is an internationally recognised conceptual artist who
works with installation and performance. These, he believes, offer ‘…
an opportunity like no other for Indian people to express themselves in
traditional art forms of ceremony, dance, oral traditions and
contemporary discourse without compromise. Within these spaces, one can
use a variety of media …so that there is no limit to how and what is
expressed.’
James Luna came to New Zealand on a three-week research trip in
January and, with Te Papa curators Charlotte Huddleston (Curator
Contemporary Art) and Megan Tamati-Quennell (Curator Contemporary Māori
and Indigenous Art), travelled and met a variety of people, including
tangata whenua (local Māori, tribal representatives) and artists in
Wellington, Auckland, Taranaki, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The final
form of Luna’s work will respond to what he experienced during this
trip.
The James Luna project is the first commissioned art
project Te Papa has undertaken with an international indigenous artist.
For those who can’t make it to Te Papa, James Luna’s total presentation will be
web streamed live on www.tepapa.govt.nz/jamesluna.
The research phase of the trip was covered on the Te Papa blog site,
and updates on the development of the project will be posted in the
lead up to the presentation of the work at
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/category/art/
For more information on James Luna: http://www.jamesluna.com/
The
One Day Sculpture project involves a partnership between all of the
leading art institutions around New Zealand. For more information on
these projects and the upcoming symposium: http://onedaysculpture.org.nz/
Sonja van KerkhoffART: www.sonjavank.comBLOG: sonjavank.blogspot.comDESIGN:
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