{"id":78,"date":"2022-09-04T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T09:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/?p=78"},"modified":"2022-09-04T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T09:44:18","slug":"research-seminar-wednesday-september-21-otago-polytechnic-530-700-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/research-seminar-wednesday-september-21-otago-polytechnic-530-700-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar, Wednesday, September 21, Otago Polytechnic, 5:30-7:00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, September 21, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5:30 pm \u2013 7:00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

YOUNG GUNS RELOADED:<\/h2>\n

RE-EVALUATING THE CONTEMPORARY M\u0100ORI ART OF THE 1990S<\/h2>\n

Ed Hanfling, Dunedin School of Art<\/h2>\n

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Michael Parekowhai (Ng\u0101 Ariki Kaiputahi, Ng\u0101ti Whakarongo),\u00a0<\/span>The Bosom of Abraham<\/span>, 1999\u00a0<\/span>Screen printed\u00a0vinyl on fluorescent light housings<\/p>\n

Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery<\/p>\n

In 2001, Manuka Henare wrote: \u201cM\u0101ori art is vitalistic in its expression of religion and philosophy, particularly where it is the intention of the artist to enhance vital potential. The art is said to be alive.\u201d It is unlikely that he had in mind the work of the \u201cYoung Guns\u201d \u2013 the artists who became identified with Contemporary M\u0101ori Art in the preceding decade, the 1990s. Shane Cotton, Jacqueline Fraser, Michael Parekowhai, Lisa Reihana and Peter Robinson enjoyed critical acclaim for work that was irreverent and referential, but also provoked debate about the extent to which their art could be seen as \u201cM\u0101ori art\u201d or consistent with the \u201cvitalistic\u201d basis of Te Ao M\u0101ori. This seminar considers the metaphysical dimensions of 1990s Contemporary M\u0101ori Art, activated through recontextualisation and reappraisal (as in the recent Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki exhibition Toi T\u016b Toi Ora<\/em>), while suggesting that there is value in holding on to the humour and calculated impropriety that initially gave the work its vitality.<\/p>\n

Ed Hanfling<\/strong> is a prolific P\u0101keh\u0101 critic, art historian, and curator who teaches at the DSA. His research focuses on judgement and value, modernist abstract art, and 20th<\/sup>-century art in Aotearoa New Zealand. Among his books are 250 Years of New Zealand Painting<\/em> (co-authored, Bateman 2021) and texts on Milan Mrkusich and Ian Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5:30 pm \u2013 7:00 pm YOUNG GUNS RELOADED: RE-EVALUATING THE CONTEMPORARY M\u0100ORI ART OF THE 1990S Ed Hanfling, Dunedin School of Art Michael Parekowhai (Ng\u0101 Ariki Kaiputahi, Ng\u0101ti Whakarongo),\u00a0The Bosom of Abraham, 1999\u00a0Screen printed\u00a0vinyl on fluorescent light housings Collection of the Dunedin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/visualstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}