"Le Folauga ",the past coming forward contemporary PacificA art from Aotearoa New Zealand 12, Dec, 2008 ~05, Apr, 2009 Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. An introduction related to the exhibition in Kaohsiung , the second big city in Taiwan, from an Art magazine "Artist". Le Folauga represents the past, the present and the future. It means the voyage and the changes that occur along the way. It shows the movement towards the future and traveling in the direction of the current.
Le Folauga brings sixteen Pacific artists who work with painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. Some of them I had heard like Johny Penisula, Tatu Feu'u, Filipe Tohi, and Shigeyuki Kihara.
One of the corporated organizations is "Tautai contemporaty Pacific Arts Trust".
The name Tautai drawn on the Samoan word for navigator and,
Tautai supports the development of contemporary pacific art through activities and play an important role to promote and assist the recognition of contemporary pacific visual art artists.
The goal of Tautai is " For Pacific Artists, By Pacific Artists". It was founded in New Zealand in the 1980s.,and now located in Newton, Auckland. I wish go to view the arts if any exhibition in Tautai.
As I know The Formosan languages are the languages of the indigenous people of Taiwan. Taiwanese aborigines currently comprise about 2% of the island's population.Taiwanese aboriginal language have significance in historical linguistics, since in all likelihood Taiwan was the place of origin of the entire Austronesian language family. With similar pronunciation for " one", "two"," three" and "four" between Taiwanese aborigines and Maori. And "ear" and" eye" with the same pronunciatin with Maori's " tangira "and" mata" . The y had similar living styles,mythical stories, festivals and tatoo presenting the society status.
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer people can speak aborinal language in Taiwan. The goverment in Taiwan had discouraged local languages including Taiwanese, Hakka and aboriginal languages except Mandarin( the public language )over 30 years. For the past 15 years, the goverment has chaged to concentrated to the education of local culture and languages. They started the language education from primary school and established culture centers in each tribe.There are many organizations involve the activities of recovering the aboriginal traditional culture and arts. Compare to the majority culture, it's still a big gap between them. I think do something is better than do nothing. I hope the contemporay arts related to Taiwan oboriginal culture can have the chance to present internationally not only limit in local Taiwan. Like "Tautai, organized the exhibition in Taiwan. The culture communication is the best way for the education to make people understand the arts and culture in New Zealand. After checking from internet, there are many blogs introduce this exhibition even some primary students'.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E5%8D%97%E5%B3%B6%E8%AA%9E%E7%B3%BB&variant=zh-tw
http://www.tautai.org/artists/
http://www.artist-magazine.com/
The magazine "Artist" (Taiwan)Jan. 2009 No. 404
This is very interesting! I saw the show Le Folauga at the Auckland Museum a couple of years ago. I didn't realise it was traveling to Taiwan. I think it's fascinating that the native culture of Taiwan is so similar to Polynesian culture. Did you see the documentary on TV a couple of years ago called "Made in Taiwan" featuring Oscar Kightly, creator of Brotown? He and another guy go to Taiwan to research Pacific DNA. Hopefully we will get the DVD in the library soon! TX
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