M.A.P. Maoli . Art . Pedagogy Collaboration Project
Maoli . Art . Pedagogy (MAP) is a real-time intervention into discourses about art in Hawai`i, especially as they pertain to the community and institutions of learning and teaching. MAP is coordinated and sponsored by the HPU Media and Cinematic Arts Program and the Department of Communication. The HPU Gallery Board helps sponsor exhibitions that invigorate discussion and engagement in the community about a wide range of artistic themes. MAP artists have exhibited paintings, illustrations, sculpture, music, electronic media including audio-video productions.
2014 MAP3 (Maoli . Art . Pedagogy): Final Acts and Other Myths
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
Gallery Curators: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
There are many metaphors or analogies that could be mobilized within the framework of M.A.P. (Maoli . Art . Pedagogy) and/or FINAL ACTS
For the past three years a group of Hawaiian Artists have engaged at HPU in a fruitful conversation about the mapping, conventions and vocabulary of art and pedagogy in Hawai`i and beyond.
o MAOLI . ART . PEDAGOGY was the focus of MAP1
o VISIONS OF THE FUTURE was the focus of MAP2
o FINAL ACTS is the focus of the third and final MAP3 Exhibition
An obvious metaphor for FINAL ACT is DEATH. Also there is the theatrical analogy: third and final act—signaling: narrative closure, climax, catharsis and denouement.
In this theatrical sense the notion of “play”, or to “act” has been invoked.
· A final act is as well about where we live—and die (sometimes you choose, sometimes you don’t)
· A final act is where we choose home to be
· A final act is what we choose to do
· A final act is how we choose to frame what has been, is, or will become
What do we leave behind? What is the footprint? Or not.
Often times a final act is spontaneous, or the work of decades, lifetimes, beyond even—we don’t always see what it is until the moment is well behind us. Sometimes a final act defines or redefines everything that has come before it, sometimes it does not; sometimes it is private, sometimes it is not. A final act then is about more than finality, it’s about summation, incompleteness and starting anew, planting seeds that you might never see come to fruition.
Poetically final acts are journeys that will be forgotten when memory disappears.
Artists: Harinani Orme, Al Lagunero, Mealanna Meyer, Kazu Kauinana, Solomon Enos, Lilette Subedi, Brook Parker, Pete Britos
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
Gallery Curators: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
There are many metaphors or analogies that could be mobilized within the framework of M.A.P. (Maoli . Art . Pedagogy) and/or FINAL ACTS
For the past three years a group of Hawaiian Artists have engaged at HPU in a fruitful conversation about the mapping, conventions and vocabulary of art and pedagogy in Hawai`i and beyond.
o MAOLI . ART . PEDAGOGY was the focus of MAP1
o VISIONS OF THE FUTURE was the focus of MAP2
o FINAL ACTS is the focus of the third and final MAP3 Exhibition
An obvious metaphor for FINAL ACT is DEATH. Also there is the theatrical analogy: third and final act—signaling: narrative closure, climax, catharsis and denouement.
In this theatrical sense the notion of “play”, or to “act” has been invoked.
· A final act is as well about where we live—and die (sometimes you choose, sometimes you don’t)
· A final act is where we choose home to be
· A final act is what we choose to do
· A final act is how we choose to frame what has been, is, or will become
What do we leave behind? What is the footprint? Or not.
Often times a final act is spontaneous, or the work of decades, lifetimes, beyond even—we don’t always see what it is until the moment is well behind us. Sometimes a final act defines or redefines everything that has come before it, sometimes it does not; sometimes it is private, sometimes it is not. A final act then is about more than finality, it’s about summation, incompleteness and starting anew, planting seeds that you might never see come to fruition.
Poetically final acts are journeys that will be forgotten when memory disappears.
Artists: Harinani Orme, Al Lagunero, Mealanna Meyer, Kazu Kauinana, Solomon Enos, Lilette Subedi, Brook Parker, Pete Britos
2014 MAP3 (Maoli . Art . Pedagogy): Visions of the Future SALON
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
MAP2 invited participating artists to KUKAKUKA at the HPU Gallery with students and community members. The event was blessed by Kumu Lilette Subedi and lead by artists Al Lagunero who flew in from Maui, and Meleanna Meyer of O`ahu. It was recorded on high fidelity video for posterity, and a documentary is being edited of the series.
Producer: Pete Britos
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
Mediator: Al Lagunera and Meleanna Meyer
Kumu: Lilette Subedi
Camera: Cindy Iodice, Kaili Britos
Sound: Keenan Ikaika Elderts
Gallery Curators: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
MAP2 invited participating artists to KUKAKUKA at the HPU Gallery with students and community members. The event was blessed by Kumu Lilette Subedi and lead by artists Al Lagunero who flew in from Maui, and Meleanna Meyer of O`ahu. It was recorded on high fidelity video for posterity, and a documentary is being edited of the series.
Producer: Pete Britos
Curators: Pete Britos and Meleanna Meyer
Mediator: Al Lagunera and Meleanna Meyer
Kumu: Lilette Subedi
Camera: Cindy Iodice, Kaili Britos
Sound: Keenan Ikaika Elderts
Gallery Curators: Sanit and Carol Khewhok
Collaborators include: HPU Art Gallery Board, Na Mea Hawai`i Native Books, Black Sand Productions, HPU Media and Cinematic Arts, HPU Department of Communication, HPU Arts and Humanities Department, Hawai`i Pacific News, Hawai`i Pacific Network, The Kalamalama.