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"Tell Me on a Sunday" Performance, 2015
Get PDFAndrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's classic Tell Me on a Sunday is a one-woman show that charts the course of young English girl newly arrived in New York. Starring Julia Booth and directed by David Sidwell this all-new production was the epitome of class
Renaissance Photography Prize 2015
No full textRenaissance Photography Prize is an international award that showcases outstanding photography from emerging and established photographers while raising funds to support young women with breast cancer.
Now in its eighth year, the prize is looking to discover talent and celebrate the best in photography, giving image makers access to new opportunities and world-wide audience for their work
Undesirable Anisotropy in a Discrete Fiber Bundle Model of Fibrous Tissues
Get PDFLanir (J Biomech. 16(1):1–12, 1983) proposed a structural model for the anisotropic response of fibrous tissues with fiber bundles oriented in space by a continuous orientation distribution. Each fiber bundle was assumed to have the same undulation distribution that characterizes its nonlinear elastic response. Recently, a
discrete fiber icosahedron model for fibrous soft tissues has been introduced, which is based on fiber bundles parallel to the six lines that connect opposing vertices
of a regular icosahedron. Although the parameters in the icosahedron model can be determined to match experimental data for the anisotropic response of various tissues, the icosahedron model predicts anisotropic response when the weights of the six fiber bundles are equal. This chapter quantifies this undesirable anisotropic response and refers to a new icosahedron model based on a generalized invariant which also matches experimental data and analytically reduces to an isotropic form when the weights of the fiber bundles are equal
Love and second sight: Bergson and romantic comedy
Get PDFThis paper applies Henri Bergson’s work on “affect” to romantic comedy, particularly the Hollywood film While You Were Sleeping (Turteltaub 1995). Bergson offers phenomenological descriptions of affects, from simple sensations to complex emotions, theorises them as qualitative multiplicities, and suggests how they afford an insight into nature as not a fixed essence but rather as durational processes of constant creative change, in which oppositions such as quality/quantity, belief/intelligence, myth/reality are productive forms of difference. Romantic comedies combine the sense of “nature”, which Bergson argues is the tendency of life to reproduce and develop itself, with an emphasis on emotional life, and these two things are linked. Romantic comedies are commonly described as formulaic, irrational, sentimental or fantastic, but each of these terms can be construed positively. Formulae refer to underlying natural cycles, reflecting the comic concern with rebirth and growth; the irrational, sentimental and fantastic refer not only to emotional states but also to particular mechanisms – Freud’s dream condensation and displacement, LeShan’s “magical thinking” and Moore’s “expressive behaviours”, all characteristic of situations of human significance where there is uncertainty, desire, and a gap between aim and result, or between sender and receiver. Expressive behaviours, both individual and social (e.g. rituals), attempt to “fill the gap” between subjects, when rationality fails, providing the social glue that makes human societies cohere. Finally, Bergson’s work on humour is examined in relation to the above themes. It is argued that the way Bergson theorises nature and affect as qualitative multiplicities connects them to emotional or expressive behaviours as manifest in romantic comedy and helps put them all on a firmer philosophical footing
Open book exhibition: From certainty to doubt [Photobook]
No full textOpen Book consists of twelve new photobook works, created specifically for exhibition. Its premise is to provoke artists’ experimentation with the book form and to position the book as a gallery experience. My contribution is the book From Certainty to Doubt
Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas |Te Takakau tapu o Barricades | Blessed Virgin of the Barricades
No full textReview written by Leafa Wilson Curator (Art) Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
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Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas |Te Takakau tapu o Barricades | Blessed Virgin of the Barricades
2011-5-12
Oracion – Prayer – Te Karakia (1)
You, who were born on the street amid subversive graffiti, keep alive the flame of rebellion. We whose multi-coloured spray made the miracle of your Incarnation. You, who stand on an old tyre, crush the demons of capitalist domination. Artist, eco-architect and champion of the people’s media – the poster, Xavier de la Cueva Meade lives in the hills of Whaingaroa-Raglan with his partner, Carolyna Hart. His motherland is Mexico. You actually cannot take Mexico outta the boy. The spirit of Emiliano Zapata is his guardian angel and Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas is always interceding on his behalf to the heart of indigenous Mexico. Meade is an artist suspicious of America and the many manifestations of colonial powers and multi-national corporations, or ‘demonic’ capitalism.
In 2003-4, I had the honour of teaching in the studio next to Meade, Xavier de la Cueva Meade at the School of Media Arts in the Drawing and Design faculty.
Slowly learning about the depth of conviction he had for the indigenous peoples of Mexico was one of the gems I gleaned in getting to know him. His exchanges and friendships with colleagues and family in his homeland of Mexico forged close ties with the famed ASARO (Socialist Assembly of Revolutionary Artists from Oaxaca). Oaxaca, Mexico is a city laden with graphic artists whose political images and texts wall-paper the city. Not just with aerosol, but with xylographs, stencilled works and hand-painted posters. There are many people who conscientiously object in this manner, and it has become somewhat of a widespread ‘tradition’ now. So for Meade, the project was also a way of reaching back home across the ether.
As a prolific collector of graphic works such as the poster, Meade has amassed hundreds of works from Mexico, Cuba and the world over.
In 2007 he collaborated with Professor Flor de Lis López Hernández (Cuba), a group of artists from Aotearoa and the famous printers – ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Arte Industria Cinematografica) in Havana, Cuba. The result was a series of hand-cut and printed serigraphic posters entitled Aotearoa Liberators. The second poster series was entitled Purakau, Mitos y Leyendas, Myths and Legends, collaboration between artists from Aotearoa, Cuba, Mexico and Spain and again, Flor de Lis López Hernández.
It was this poster series for which the work Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas was made. Meade possesses a genuine and strong sense of social justice as a Mexicano living in Aotearoa since the 1980s. His natural aroha – love for Tangata Whenua –indigenous peoples of Aotearoa has inspired the collaborative and inclusive practice of representing each of his homelands through language. Each series of posters has been documented as a catalogue and each catalogue is tri-lingual: Te Reo Maaori, Spanish and English.
Retablo + The People
Co-opted into the indigenous peoples’ lexicon of deities in various parts of Meso-America and Mexico is Our Lady of Guadalupe along with other relative saints. Whether one actually believes or not in any kind of god, the retablo or shrine, is not an unusual object to have in the home. The indigenous beliefs always gave credence to a deity or protector, it just has a Catholic veneer. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the most well-known of the Catholic icons. Kind-of at-odds with one another, but in a very real way, both serving the purposes of ‘the people’.
ASARO’s secularised version of her is The Blessed Virgin of the Barricades; she crushes the head of the demons of capitalism and oppressive power. In the visual narratives that come out of the resistance of Mexico, there are various names for these powers:
United States of America
El Presidente
Monsanto and its subsidiaries
International Monetary Fund
The World Bank
Santisima Virgen de las Barrikadas made her first appearance on the walls of Oaxaca in 2006 by ASARO. Meade has immortalised her and her message. The message will continue to be transmitted to distant places around the planet, for the sake of the planet and the people, now and forever. From the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, free us. But keep alive our ancestral memories and our millenary cultures. For now, we will sell for free your image on every wall, in an effort to adore and invoke you, and, respectful to our traditions, preserve the local resistance… and, by the way, without global copyright.
2011-5-12
Xavier de la Cueva Meade (Mexico/ Whaingaroa) b.1951. Serigraphic print 1/50, 2011. Collection of Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato. Accession no. 2001/5/12
Leafa Wilson
Curator (Art) Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato
Excerpt from the original Oracion Los Appo Stoles Irreverentes (reference to the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca / Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca)via Whaingaroa, Valencia and Akumal Xavier Meade, Purakau Myths and Legends Mito y Leyendas International Poster Project Catalogue, 2011
Excerpt from the original Oracion – final stanza of the litany: Los Appo Stoles Irreverentes (reference to the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca / Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca)via Whaingaroa, Valencia and Akumal Xavier Meade, Purakau Myths and Legends Mito y Leyendas International Poster Project Catalogue, 201
A kaupapa Maori Nursing stream as a Choice For Maori Tauira (students). ANEC presentation
Get PDFWithin New Zealand nursing there is an awareness of need for relevant safe and accessible care for Maori, one approach has been to increase the number of registered nurses who identify as Maori. This goal has not been without its challenges. When it comes to the topic of Maori achievement in education most will readily agree that the research has focused on Maori underachievement. While this no doubt remains a reality for many Maori it is time to look at successful programmes and to ask why?
This presentation will give an overview of a successful Maori education programme - Tihei Mauri Ora which is undertaken within the Centre for Health and Social Practice at Te Kuratini o Waikato (WINTEC). This programme recognises kaupapa Maori and begins to address the needs of a minority community who are partners in a bi-cultural context. Although academic success is still predominately an individual accomplishment, Tihei Mauri Ora’s success is grounded in not only the individual but the development of the wider community, and building the capacity in hauora (health) in each whanau (family). It is the living of the content of this programme, rather than just delivering it which may be enabling achievement challenges for maori students to be overcome.
We will present the living of this programme, the small steps made for big gains, and the collaborative mahi (work) undertaken, from the perspective of the staff, students and whanau. Discussing what is different about our successful approach to the positive outcomes for maori Bachelor of Nursing students in the Tihei Mauri Ora stream
Post Traumatic Growth - parents bereaved by suicide. Awanuiarangi Overview of Doctorate Presentation
Get PDFThis study is about posttraumatic growth (PTG) and in particular, how the notion relates to parents bereaved by suicide.This study seeks to understand the experiences of parents by exploring their lived experiences of suicide grief.
This is a qualitative, Māori centred, case study approach was designed to surface and provide a depth of understanding of the critical themes and features of suicide grief through analysis of the mechanisms that influence the posttraumatic growth of parents bereaved by suicide, along with the posttraumatic growth outcomes of surviving their child’s suicide death
Sonic Patterns and Compositional Strategies in the Music of Queen
No full textThis presentation on the style of Queen was given to a music theory graduate class at the City University of New York. The slides for the presentation can be accessed from the URL below
Performance of Purcell oratorio Dido and Aeneas July 2015
No full textParticipation as chorister in semi-staged performance of Purcell oratorio by Handel Consort and Quire (Auckland) Sat 2 Oct Pitt St Church, Auckland and Sun 3 Oct Saint Andrews Presbyterian Church Pukekohe, NZ
Study of the scores and rehearsal with the choir provided invaluable information towards the continued development of my own choral writing and my lecturing to composition students