13/03/09
This tutorial class had trip to visit the Te Tuhi Centre. The main purpose was to see an artist- Shigeyuki Kihara’s composition and listened to her lecture. Through these productions, I felt that she work very hard and she wanted to tell us the story about her native. She cares about everything around her and always keeps looking for the history about her home town.
Shigeyuki Kihara is a multimedia and performance artist who uses photography to explore theme of Pacific culture, identity, indigenous spirituality, colonialism, stereotypes, gender roles, and consumerism. Kihara was born in Samoa and she has both Japanese and Samoan decent. Now she lives in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
At first Shigeyuki Kihara used project and vedio to introduce her background, photos and her creations. Meanwhile, she showed a proficient skill in using these modern technologic media. It was showed a plenty of productions and with her own special style. No matter it attract me very much.
Her inspiration and motivation are came from a variety of course, including 19th and early 20th century colonial photographs which were made by non-indigenous artists who contributed many erroneous perceptions about Pacific Islanders and their culture.
In the triptych, Kihara seems to be both a director and an actor in this performance. She presents a provocative, reclining pose that evokes numerous historical photographs of lounging seductive women( they call “belles”, it means beautiful woman). The series has a powerful commentary by the Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders. Also, the sexual stereotypes were penetrated by early images. Kihara confront and challenges assumptions about gender identity. She illustrate different point and extent the views for male and female.
After the speech, I watched her works in the centre. In my view, she is a versatile artist; she has plenty of creations and imaginations in different ways. I like her performance, especially the t-shirt she designed. Furthermore, the subject that she chose is not difficult for anyone. However, she did very carefully in each part and used a fantastic skill to interpret her ideas. I am impressed about her t-shirt design, every logo in each t-shirt, we can found on advertise, poster, or stuffs we can easily find in our life. But she changed the text to another funny style, for example, “Parking Save” to “Fun’k Save.” It’s a gorgeous design to attract people vision.
Today, Kihara is a great designer and great creativity and full of confidence.
This tutorial class had trip to visit the Te Tuhi Centre. The main purpose was to see an artist- Shigeyuki Kihara’s composition and listened to her lecture. Through these productions, I felt that she work very hard and she wanted to tell us the story about her native. She cares about everything around her and always keeps looking for the history about her home town.
Shigeyuki Kihara is a multimedia and performance artist who uses photography to explore theme of Pacific culture, identity, indigenous spirituality, colonialism, stereotypes, gender roles, and consumerism. Kihara was born in Samoa and she has both Japanese and Samoan decent. Now she lives in Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
At first Shigeyuki Kihara used project and vedio to introduce her background, photos and her creations. Meanwhile, she showed a proficient skill in using these modern technologic media. It was showed a plenty of productions and with her own special style. No matter it attract me very much.
Her inspiration and motivation are came from a variety of course, including 19th and early 20th century colonial photographs which were made by non-indigenous artists who contributed many erroneous perceptions about Pacific Islanders and their culture.
In the triptych, Kihara seems to be both a director and an actor in this performance. She presents a provocative, reclining pose that evokes numerous historical photographs of lounging seductive women( they call “belles”, it means beautiful woman). The series has a powerful commentary by the Western perceptions of Pacific Islanders. Also, the sexual stereotypes were penetrated by early images. Kihara confront and challenges assumptions about gender identity. She illustrate different point and extent the views for male and female.
After the speech, I watched her works in the centre. In my view, she is a versatile artist; she has plenty of creations and imaginations in different ways. I like her performance, especially the t-shirt she designed. Furthermore, the subject that she chose is not difficult for anyone. However, she did very carefully in each part and used a fantastic skill to interpret her ideas. I am impressed about her t-shirt design, every logo in each t-shirt, we can found on advertise, poster, or stuffs we can easily find in our life. But she changed the text to another funny style, for example, “Parking Save” to “Fun’k Save.” It’s a gorgeous design to attract people vision.
Today, Kihara is a great designer and great creativity and full of confidence.
Thanks Amy, this is a good combination of your own ideas, and ideas you have found through further research. Just be careful to acknowledge your sources, and also, when you are quoting from another site, it has to make sense. For example, you refer to Shigeyuki's "Triptych", which is a photographic work in three parts. This work was not on show at Te Tuhi, so it doesn't make sense in your response, unless you explain more about it, such as giving a title, and describing the work.
ReplyDeleteI hope that makes sense to you. Keep up the good work, and don't forget to add your Polyfest review!
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