Last month, Natasha Conland, curator of the 4th Auckland Triennial, announced the list of confirmed artists including Shigeyuki Kihara participating in next year’s Triennial to be held on 12 March to 20 June 2010. The Auckland Triennial is New Zealand’s leading international contemporary art exhibition. Over 30 international artists feature in this multi-venue exhibition held […]
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Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination
Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom, until December 2010. Curated by Anita Herle, Mark Elliott and Rebecca Empson, Assembling Bodies is a major interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, open from March 2009 to November 2010. The […]
Talanoa: Walk the Talk III & IV stills now online
The photographic documentation of the Talanoa: Walk the Talk III & IV performances held in Sydney can now be viewed online, courtesy of photographer Susannah Wimberley. Both performances were filmed and are currently in the process of editing. The final version will be presented as a moving image work, to be featured in a group […]
Shigeyuki Kihara on Kete Aronui
Maori Television’s Kete Aronui is an art show featuring artists from all around Aotearoa and covering all disciplines. From music, carvers, performers, weavers, painters, sculptors, film makers, theatre and multimedia, Kete Aronui is at the heart of indigenous art. An upcoming episode directed by Kirsty MacDonald features Shigeyuki Kihara and her work.
ethKnowcentrix exhibition opens at October Gallery, London
The long-awaited opening of the ‘ethKnowcentrix: Museums Inside the Artist’ group exhibition, featuring works by Lisa Reihana, Rosanna Raymond, George Nuku and Shigeyuki Kihara, finally opens with a Polynesian welcome ceremony and opening reception on 9 September, at October Gallery in London! Look out for the Artist Forum at the October Gallery on 12 September […]
Talanoa: Walk the Talk IV
Talanoa: Walk the Talk IV Shigeyuki Kihara has collaborated with the Ingleburn RSL Club, Campbelltown Community Pipes and Drums and Wuruniri Music and Dance to present Talanoa: Walk the Talk IV, a free performance at Redfern Community Centre on Saturday 15 August at 12pm. In Samoa the concept of talanoa is a process of discussion […]
Shigeyuki explains Talanoa: Walk the Talk IV
Talanoa: Walk the Talk IV is a free public performance at Redfern Community Centre, Sydney, Australia on Saturday 15 August 2009, from 12pm. Featuring: Wuruniri Music and Dance; Ingleburn RSL Club & Campbelltown Community Pipes and Drums. During my seven-week residency hosted by the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney I am staging the Talanoa: Walk the […]
Assume Nothing at Rhode Island International Film Festival
Assume Nothing film featuring Shigeyuki Kihara is showing at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA. The Assume Nothing film, in the making for the last five years, is by director Kirsty MacDonald collaborating with a number of artists and performers from New Zealand who express their alternative gender identity through their art, and featuring […]
Flower Power group exhibition at Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale (CRAA), Italy
The installation entitled Menstrolly Speaking created by Ema Tavola, Leilani Salesa and Shigeyuki Kihara is featured in a group exhibition entitled Flower Power, curated by Andrea Busto, and currently held at Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale (CRAA) in Verbania, Italy. Installation images are now online: go to ‘Expositions et Evenements’ to see the works featured in […]
Talanoa: Walk the Talk III
Shigeyuki Kihara has collaborated with the Mukti Gupteshar Mandir Society and the Congregational Christian Church Samoa to present Talanoa: Walk the Talk III, a work that explores cross-cultural relationships within communities. The latest performance is happening in Minto, Sydney on Saturday 8 August from 10.30am.