Lisa Reihana, Intersections Visiting Artist, lecture and reception

October 9, 5:15pm - 7:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Building, Art Auditorium Add to Calendar

Lisa Reihana, Intersections Visiting Artist

Public lecture and reception

Thursday, October 9

ART Auditorium

5:15 – 5:50 pm, Reception

6:00-7:30 pm, Public Lecture

“Video in Contemporary Pacific Art”

Lisa Reihana will be in residence from October 1 – 13, 2014 at the Department of Art & Art History, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) through the Intersections Visiting Artist and Scholar Program. Her work comments on gender politics, cultural agency and museological interventions. Reihana’s video work will be presented in the exhibition "Binding & Looping: Transfer of Presence in Contemporary Pacific Art," on view at the University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery from October 5 – December 5, 2014.

Lisa Reihana is of Nga Puhi: Ngati Hine and Ngai Tu descent. Her practice is wide-ranging and includes installation, moving image and time-based media, sculpture, photography, performance, costume, body adornment and text-based works. Her work comments on gender politics, cultural agency and museological interventions. Reihana completed a major commission "Mai i te aroha, ko the aroha" for Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington in 2008. A development of this work is included in "Te Po O Matariki" (2010) where Whirimako Black performs a "karanga," the first sound heard on the "marae" in formal occasions and the call-and-response by senior Maori women as part of Maori welcoming ceremonies known as "powhiri."

This event is free and open to the public.


Ticket Information
Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art and Art History, UHM, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions+events/intersections/

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