Taualuga: The Last Dance (2006) Medium: Performance video Duration: 5 min 50 sec Taualuga: The Last Dance (2006) by Shigeyuki Kihara The solo performance entitled Taualuga: The Last Dance (2006) by Samoan-born artist Shigeyuki Kihara is an attempt to communicate wih her ancestors in seeking solutions to today’s global issues that affect the small islands […]
Photos from Culture Court
Photos from Culture Court. Photography by James Little. Culture Court (2010) by Shigeyuki Kihara Venue: National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, Australia. Supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria and NGV International. Culture Court is a public performance devised by Shigeyuki Kihara in collaboration with Multicultural Arts Victoria communities and staged at the 17th & 18th Century […]
Talanoa Forum
Talofa lava & Greetings, Thanks to all who attended the amazing and successful Talanoa performance between the Dambai Dancing Group of Sudan and Te Roro n Rikirake Kiribati Youth Group at today’s Emerge Festival!! On Tuesday 22 June we had the Talanoa Forum – a discussion and reflection on the Talanoa: Walk the Talk VII […]
Talanoa: Walk the Talk VII
Media Release 5 May 2010 Talanoa: Walk the Talk VII Talanoa: Walk the Talk is an inspiring cultural arts project taking place in Melbourne from May to June, 2010. Commissioned by Multicultural Arts Victoria, internationally renowned Japanese/ Samoan artist Shigeyuki Kihara will apply the ancient Samoan concept of talanoa – a practice of talking through […]
Talanoa: Walk the Talk VI at Emerge Festival!
Talanoa: Walk the Talk VI flyer
ConversAsians
Creative New Zealand, in association with the Asia New Zealand Foundation, is delighted to be supporting a delegation of ten creator-artists to attend a new cultural exchange initiative called ConversAsians to be held in Singapore from 26 – 29 May 2010. This event has been two years in development and is a progression from the […]
Talanoa on Asia DownUnder
Talanoa: Walk the Talk performance series will be screening as part of Asia DownUnder on various TV stations around New Zealand. This week’s episode of Asia DownUnder: Episode 08 includes: Mixing it up We check out artist Shigeyuki Kihara’s latest performance art collaborations involving different ethnic groups including the recent public performance featuring Maori and […]
Unnerved
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia 1 May – 4 July 2010 Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) presents the second in a series of country-specific exhibition projects focusing on its contemporary collections with Unnerved: The New Zealand Project. Holdings of contemporary work from New Zealand have grown rapidly since […]
April News from Sydney
Talofa lava and Greetings, I’m currently based in Sydney attending various meetings in relation to the upcoming Edge of Elsewhere visual arts program for Sydney Festival 2011 and 2012, co-curated by Gallery 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia. Edge of Elsewhere is a major three-year project with the Sydney […]
MAV Artist in Residence
Dear friends and colleagues, Below you’ll find an e-flyer about my upcoming Talanoa: Walk the Talk VII public performance and related activities, commissioned by Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV), Melbourne, Australia. Talanoa: Walk the Talk VII Tuesday 22nd June 2010 The Willin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development Featuring a public performance by: Dambai Dancing […]