Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Yuki Kihara, Lisa Reihana and George Nuku at Museum Volkenkunde
Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands
21 February 2020 —
05 April 2021
Made up of thousands of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Oceania covers more than a third of the Earth’s surface, extending from New Guinea to Easter Island, and from New Zealand to Hawaii. The ocean borders the islands, but it has also always been the thing that connects them. This exhibition focuses on the islanders’ connection with water and their huge resourcefulness. It features objects of breathtaking beauty, from canoes several metres long and ingenious navigation tools to statues and jewellery. It also includes contemporary art, with eye-catching pieces like the live-action video by Lisa Reihana, work by Yuki Kihara and an installation by George Nuku. This year we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the arrival of two wakas, distinctive Maori canoes, at Museum Volkenkunde with a full programme of demonstrations, workshops and lectures during Maori Weekend on 2-3 May 2020.
Made up of thousands of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Oceania covers more than a third of the Earth’s surface, extending from New Guinea to Easter Island, and from New Zealand to Hawaii. The ocean borders the islands, but it has also always been the thing that connects them. This exhibition focuses on the islanders’ connection with water and their huge resourcefulness. It features objects of breathtaking beauty, from canoes several metres long and ingenious navigation tools to statues and jewellery. It also includes contemporary art, with eye-catching pieces like the live-action video by Lisa Reihana, work by Yuki Kihara and an installation by George Nuku. This year we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the arrival of two wakas, distinctive Maori canoes, at Museum Volkenkunde with a full programme of demonstrations, workshops and lectures during Maori Weekend on 2-3 May 2020.
Māori Weekend, Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club
Musem Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands
24 June —
25 June 2023
The Māori Weekend at Museum Volkenkunde is a unique and special opportunity for visitors to learn more about Māori culture, art forms and Matariki (Māori New Year). A varied program with family lectures, guided tours, workshops and demonstrations will be held over the two days, including a poi making workshop guided by the Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club. Thanks to a close relationship with various Māori groups, the Museum has a rich collection of taonga, and in 2010, were gifted a waka taua (ceremonial boat) and a waka tete kura (boat for daily use). Museum Volkenkunde is honoured to be able to share Māori culture with its visitors, to inspire global citizenship and an open view of the world. In attendance will be individuals from Toi Māori Aotearoa, a charitable trust that promotes Māori traditional arts and Māori artists, both in New Zealand and overseas.
The Māori Weekend at Museum Volkenkunde is a unique and special opportunity for visitors to learn more about Māori culture, art forms and Matariki (Māori New Year). A varied program with family lectures, guided tours, workshops and demonstrations will be held over the two days, including a poi making workshop guided by the Ngāti Rānana London Māori Club. Thanks to a close relationship with various Māori groups, the Museum has a rich collection of taonga, and in 2010, were gifted a waka taua (ceremonial boat) and a waka tete kura (boat for daily use). Museum Volkenkunde is honoured to be able to share Māori culture with its visitors, to inspire global citizenship and an open view of the world. In attendance will be individuals from Toi Māori Aotearoa, a charitable trust that promotes Māori traditional arts and Māori artists, both in New Zealand and overseas.
Yuki Kihara at Taking Care Conference
Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands
02 November —
04 November 2022
As part of the international collaborative research project Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture is hosting a conference titled Taking Care: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe.
Yuki Kihara is included in Session III: Going Native – Dutch Constructions of the Pacific alongside Michiel Teijgeler, Mirte Hazes, and Harry Lodder. The discussion is moderated by Wonu Veys and takes place on Wednesday 02 November at 4:30pm.
As part of the international collaborative research project Taking Care - Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care, the Research Center for Material Culture is hosting a conference titled Taking Care: Re|Creating Kinship in the Ethnographic Museum in Europe.
Yuki Kihara is included in Session III: Going Native – Dutch Constructions of the Pacific alongside Michiel Teijgeler, Mirte Hazes, and Harry Lodder. The discussion is moderated by Wonu Veys and takes place on Wednesday 02 November at 4:30pm.
Yuki Kihara, Going Native
Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, the Netherlands
01 November 2022 —
08 January 2023
Going Native (2017/2022) is a new work by Yuki Kihara commissioned by the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands, as a culmination of enquiry undertaken since 2017 by Kihara into the museum's rich and varied ethnographic collections.
The installation places the research into a contemporary setting, generating provocation around issues of cross-cultural exchange and representation by focusing on several Dutch groups who have been entrusted with the care and perpetuation of certain Indigenous cultural practices from around the world.
Going Native (2017/2022) is a new work by Yuki Kihara commissioned by the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands, as a culmination of enquiry undertaken since 2017 by Kihara into the museum's rich and varied ethnographic collections.
The installation places the research into a contemporary setting, generating provocation around issues of cross-cultural exchange and representation by focusing on several Dutch groups who have been entrusted with the care and perpetuation of certain Indigenous cultural practices from around the world.