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Contemporary Art In The South Pacific, Bergman Gallery & The New Frontier…by Rachel Smith. For two centuries, European anthropological mischaracterizations have dominated perceptions of the broader Pacific region. Of more recent times, there has ...
KAMOAN MINE by Rachel Smith.
Andy Leleisi’uao KAMOAN MINE Survey exhibition curated by Ben Bergman May 2 – July 14 TSB | Wallace Arts Centre Hillsborough, Auckland, New Zealand. KAMOAN MINE by Rachel Smith. It is impossible not to notice the contrast: corned beef cans with ...
The Danger of a Single Story by Yazmany Arboleda
A review of the BCA exhibition MANUIA! Huffington Post, NYC, April 28, 2010. I borrow this title from Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie, who insightfully asserted that hearing only one story about a people or nation leads to ignorance. Ms. Adichie po ...
Closing speech, Pacific Arts Association 10th International Symposium, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
Kia Orana! I am Ben Bergman, Director of BCA Gallery, Taputapuatea, here at Rarotonga. Your Symposium’s organizing committee kindly asked me to speak tonight, on their behalf. I want to express the thanks of so very many people to Michael Gunn an ...
M101 and the opening of Beachcomber Contemporary Art’s new exhibition space, Rarotonga, 2009
https://vimeo.com/497058007 BCA's new exhibition space was opened by the exhibition M101 - a photographic study by Mahiriki Tangaroa. The images were taken in NYC in 2008. The new gallery was officially opened by the Minister of Tourism, Hon. Wilkie Ra ...
Opening Night, Mahiriki Tangaroa’s, In Due Course, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga 2007
https://vimeo.com/496521324 Opening Night, Mahiriki Tangaroa's, In Due Course, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga 2007.
Mahiriki Tangaroa, In Due Course, Speeches, BCA Gallery, 2007
https://vimeo.com/496732116 In Due Course, speeches by Gallery Director Ben Bergman & Auckland Art Gallery Senior Pacific Curator Ron Brownson, 2007.
Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao.
Scriptures from the West, an exhibition by Mahiriki Tangaroa and Andy Leleisi’uao, BCA Gallery, Rarotonga, 2007. Introduction: I reckon that parameters to definition are lacking when it comes to contemporary pacific art. You all know how much deb ...