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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Ahilapalapa Rands in Encounters
Cook 250 Festival, Whitby Library, Whitby, U.K.
06 July —
24 August 2018
As part of events taking place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, over the weekend of 7th and 8th July to mark the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, artists Ahilapalapa Rands and Fiona MacDonald: Feral Practice are creating new commissions for Encounters, exploring the scientific and artistic impacts of Cook’s voyage, and the shared histories of encounter between Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific.
‘Aʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi’ — All knowledge is not taught in one school – Hawaiian Proverb
In The Oceanic Reading Room, New Zealand artist Ahilapalapa Rands introduces us to ways in which knowledge and learning is gathered and shared by some of the indigenous peoples from the Pacific Islands. Through film, maps, books, quotations and interviews, Ahilapalapa Rands creates a library within a library, a comfortable and welcoming space in which to explore art, science and research from a non-Western perspective. By looking at different ways of holding and acquiring knowledge we can start to find different ways of accessing our shared histories and make space for our sometimes shared, sometimes distinct world views.
As part of events taking place in Whitby, North Yorkshire, over the weekend of 7th and 8th July to mark the 250th anniversary of James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, artists Ahilapalapa Rands and Fiona MacDonald: Feral Practice are creating new commissions for Encounters, exploring the scientific and artistic impacts of Cook’s voyage, and the shared histories of encounter between Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific.
‘Aʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi’ — All knowledge is not taught in one school – Hawaiian Proverb
In The Oceanic Reading Room, New Zealand artist Ahilapalapa Rands introduces us to ways in which knowledge and learning is gathered and shared by some of the indigenous peoples from the Pacific Islands. Through film, maps, books, quotations and interviews, Ahilapalapa Rands creates a library within a library, a comfortable and welcoming space in which to explore art, science and research from a non-Western perspective. By looking at different ways of holding and acquiring knowledge we can start to find different ways of accessing our shared histories and make space for our sometimes shared, sometimes distinct world views.