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Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa'afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world.

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العنوان: Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp as a potential Fa'afafine museum: Fabulous cohabitation in a shared world.
المؤلفون: Yu, Liang-Kai, Steinbock, Eliza
المصدر: Journal of Material Culture; Dec2023, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p576-603, 28p
مصطلحات موضوعية: PARADISE, LGBTQ+ studies, HISTORY of colonies, PHOTOGRAPH collections, PACIFIC Islanders
مصطلحات جغرافية: VENICE (Italy)
People: GAUGUIN, Paul, 1848-1903
مستخلص: This article examines critical ethnographic and archival elements of Paradise Camp, Yuki Kihara's highly celebrated Aotearoa New Zealand national pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2022. Through its scenography that in Kihara's words is "fa'afabulous," consisting of archival collages drawn from museum collections and staged photography made after Gauguin's paintings in collaboration with queer Sāmoan communities, we argue that Kihara's heavily annotated version of a so-called paradise assembled within Paradise Camp offers a 'potential museum' that reconnects the missing links between colonial registrations of the past with today's queer Sāmoan lives. This queer Indigenous reconfiguration of a fabulous paradise, which refuses imperial understandings of Pacific people and geographies, seems central to Paradise Camp 's queer 'camp' effects, much like an eye roll that dethrones authority. Therefore, we propose that such an artist-fabulated museum lays claims to an Oceanic sovereignty, and broadly fosters a shared world for Fa'afafine and queer Pasifika peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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تدمد:13591835
DOI:10.1177/13591835231210440