‘サモアについてのうた (Samoa ni tsuite no uta) | A song about Sāmoa’(2019–) detail by Yuki Kihara.
Funding received from Creative New Zealand – the national arts development agency of the Government of New Zealand.
Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Funding received from Creative New Zealand – the national arts development agency of the Government of New Zealand.
Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.
feature event
GAX 2019 Montreal - Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art, June 10-16, 2019
The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX) Network in partnership with Concordia University is proud to present GAX 2019 in Montreal on the theme of Asian Indigenous Relations in Contemporary Art. Through a series of working group sessions, a public conference, panels, and exhibitions, our meeting brings together over forty international and local artists, curators, and scholars to exchange knowledge about relational approaches to the making, presentation, and study of Indigenous and Asian diasporic contemporary art.
Our two-day conference will focus on the Canadian (including the Americas) and Asia-Pacific contexts, particularly Hawai`i, the Pacific Islands, Oceania, Australia, and New Zealand. Our esteemed keynote speakers are Samoan, Japanese interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, Asian American Studies scholar Margo Machida, and Mohawk multimedia artist Skawennati.
In the past decade, there has been an explosion of Indigenous artists, curators, and scholars in Canadian, the US, Asia Pacific, and Islander contexts and a concurrent surge in uncovering and theorizing Asian Indigenous relations in the fields of Asian American, Asian North American, and Asian Pacific and Islander studies. Decolonizing research and activism and present-day coalition building between Indigenous, marginalized, and ally groups are leading to new paradigms of identity and community to confront issues of self-determination, decolonization, and social justice. Now is the time to have these conversations on global Indigeneity, Asian diasporas, and the future of exhibition making
Our two-day conference will focus on the Canadian (including the Americas) and Asia-Pacific contexts, particularly Hawai`i, the Pacific Islands, Oceania, Australia, and New Zealand. Our esteemed keynote speakers are Samoan, Japanese interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, Asian American Studies scholar Margo Machida, and Mohawk multimedia artist Skawennati.
In the past decade, there has been an explosion of Indigenous artists, curators, and scholars in Canadian, the US, Asia Pacific, and Islander contexts and a concurrent surge in uncovering and theorizing Asian Indigenous relations in the fields of Asian American, Asian North American, and Asian Pacific and Islander studies. Decolonizing research and activism and present-day coalition building between Indigenous, marginalized, and ally groups are leading to new paradigms of identity and community to confront issues of self-determination, decolonization, and social justice. Now is the time to have these conversations on global Indigeneity, Asian diasporas, and the future of exhibition making