BRING YOUR GAME Hip Hop Summit / Shigeyuki Kihara
BRING YOUR GAME Hip Hop Summit is curated by Artist and independent curator Shigeyuki Kihara, commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre for Sydney Festival 2011, Australia.
BRING YOUR GAME Hip Hop Summit documentary is commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre for Sydney Festival 2011. Directed by Shigeyuki Kihara. Camera footage by Paradise Media. Photography by Susannah Wimberly. Edited by Filmmaker Kirsty MacDonald.
BRING YOUR GAME Hip Hop Summit is the second project Shigeyuki Kihara has created for ‘Edge of Elsewhere’ – a major 3 year project commissioned by 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Campbelltown Arts Centre for Sydney Festival 2010/2011/2012 - where international
artists are commissioned to produce art and art projects in partnership with Sydney communities in Australia.
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Shigeyuki KiharaShigeyuki Kihara is an artist and independent curator who is interested in ways that art, performance and the public interact and prompt discussions towards the understanding the complexities of humanity. Many of her works have achieved iconic status and critically discussed in diverse areas of academia both in New Zealand and internationally.
A native of Samoa, Kihara’s work has been represented in number of international contemporary art survey exhibitions including 4th Asia- Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (AUS) and 4th Auckland Triennial (NZ). Kihara’s first solo museum exhibition in North America entitled Shigeyuki Kihara; Living Photographs (2008-09) was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York following the acquisition of her works by the museum for their permanent collection.
Kihara’s solo and group exhibitions has been presented internationally, amongst others, at the de Young Fine Art Museum of San Francisco (USA); Museum of Contemporary Art (AUS); Campbelltown Arts Centre (AUS); 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (AUS); Gallery of Modern Art (AUS); National Gallery of Victoria International (AUS); Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery (NZ); Gus Fisher Gallery University of Auckland (NZ); City Gallery Wellington (NZ); Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan); National Museum of Poznan (Warsaw) and Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale (Italy).
Kihara's public performances has been commissioned and staged at, amongst others, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; 4th Auckland Triennial (NZ); 4th Asia-Pacific Triennial (AUS); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin); Musee du Quai Branly (Paris) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA).
Kihara was selected as one of five ‘path-breaking artists’ by ArtAsiaPacific Almanac (2008) alongside Mike Parr, NS Harsha, Kimsooja and Huang Yong Ping.
Kihara’s upcoming project include her recent appointment as festival co-presenter of URBAN PACIFIC FESTIVAL – a major multidisciplinary arts festival held at Kampnagel International Centre for Finer Arts, Hamburg Germany 2013 with a focus on Contemporary Maori and Pacific artists and scholars from New Zealand, co-curated with Berlin-based choreographer Jochen Roller.
Examples of Kihara’s work can be found in selected permanent collections internationally including; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand; Auckland Art Gallery (NZ); Gus Fisher Gallery University of Auckland (NZ); Govett Brewster Art Gallery (NZ); Massey University (NZ); Queensland Art Gallery (AUS); Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (AUS); University of Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology (UK); Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Kihara’s work is also held in number of private collections internationally, including those of Giorgio Armani.
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