NOTES
- The Pacific Art Association had its annual meetings in 2001 in New Caledonia. The meetings were hosted and organised by the Tjibaou Cultural Centre.
- For a description of these events see A. Bensa, Ethnologie et Architecture: Noumea, Nouvelle Caledonie, le Centre culture Tjibaou, une realisation de Renzo Piano. Paris: Adam Biro. 2000.
- ibid. Alban Bensa is an anthropologist who described in some detail the process of consultation involved in the creation of Tjibaou Cultural Centre.
- E. Kasarherou, ‘“Men of Flesh and Blood’: The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Noumea”, Art and Asia Pacific, 2:4, 1995, 90–95:94.
- Bensa, 94–95.
- ibid., 38.
- Tjibaou cited in E. Kasarherou, “Men of Flesh” 91.
- ibid., 95.
- I have taken this idea of situating practices in expanded fields along with other practices, from the essay by R. Krauss, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” in The Originality of the Avant-Garde an Other Modernist Myths, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1985, 276–290.
- For an overview and discussion of Pacific Cultural Centres see N. Stanley, Being Ourselves for You: Global Display of Cultures, London: Middlesex University Press, 1998; and S. Cochrane, “Out of the Doldrums: Museums and Cultural Centres in Pacific Islands Countries in the 1990s” in Art and Performance in Oceania, ed. B. Craig, B. Kernot and C. Anderson, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999,256–266.
- Some of these problems have been pointed out in J. Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997, in particular see Chapter 7 “Museums as Contact Zones,” 188–219.
- For an account of the many issues facing cultural centres see M. Simpson, Making Representations: Museums in the Post-Colonial Era, London: Routledge, 1996.
- K. Stevenson, “Festivals, Identity and Performance: Tahiti and the 6th Pacific Arts Festival,” in Art and Performance in Oceania, 29–37.
- ibid.
- M.L. Pratt, Imperials Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, London and New York: Routledge, 1992, 6.
- See, for example, J. Weiner, “Between a Rock and a Non-Place: Towards a Contemporary Anthropology of Place,” Reviews in Anthropology, Vol. 31, 2002, 21–27.
- Clifford Routes, 193.
- M. Augé, Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. London: Verso, 1995. Augé discusses the proliferation of airports and other structures that are identical in form in the contemporary world. These bear no sense of locality or identity.