![]() ![]() ![]() Hastings-McFall wanted her piece titled “No Man Is An Island” to be a conversation across time and geography with the other pieces in the exhibition. “They just sort of basically put me on a monitor, it was just wheeled round, like a great giant head, really pointing me in various directions, and it was quite, very disembodied feeling.” “It's very interesting, and it's quite nerve-wracking, sort of flying by the seat of your pants as it were,” Hastings-McFall said. Hastings-McFall used technology to overcome the logistical obstacles of creating a work and having it installed in a space she never even visited. “But then I thought, ‘No, it's That's a little bit too, sort of real, to be a joke.’ So, yeah, and it sort of went from there,” Hastings-McFall said. When Hastings-McFall received the first message about creating a site-specific piece for the Denver Art Museum, she said she initially thought it was spam. ![]() Eden Lane/CPR News Emelihter Kihleng, the curatorial fellow in Native arts at the Denver Art Museum, leads a group through a preview of "Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection."Īotearoa is the contemporary Māori language name for New Zealand. “I immediately thought of Nikki Hastings-McFall, who's an Aotearoa-born artist” Kihleng said. Kihleng selected 25 treasures for this installation, and she was also responding to the wall angles of the space when she selected an artist to create a new work for the reopening. “Or we trace our genealogy to sometimes these objects and sometimes they're very sacred. Because for Pacific peoples, the treasures, oftentimes we have genealogical links to them, or they're part of our, I guess you could say, DNA in a way,” Kihleng said. “Because the word ‘objects’ doesn't really convey the essence or what the objects or treasures really mean to us. In the Pacific Islands, the people tend to refer to works as “treasures,” as opposed to “objects.” ![]() Kihleng brings personal insight to the project, including one of language. Emelihter Kihleng is the curatorial fellow in Native arts as the gallery reopens with a new temporary exhibition, “Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection.” Since the Denver Art Museum acquired its first piece from Oceania more than 80 years ago, the collection has grown to about 1,000 pieces from all of the major island groups. This week, the reimagined galleries reopened to the public. The galleries in the museum’s Hamilton Building galleries were closed as construction around the campus took place. Take beautiful pictures to share using the brand new Photo Mode, featuring dozens of filters, lens settings, and moreĮmbracing the same inclusive development process that was used to create Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), E-Line’s BAFTA award-winning game about Alaska Native culture, the company partnered with BBC Studios (developers of the acclaimed Blue Planet II), OceanX Media, world-class game makers, and some of science’s leading ocean experts to craft an experience that reflects the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that infuses our planet’s beating blue heart.Back in 2016, the Denver Art Museum took down collections from three of its most well-known areas: the Arts of Africa, Arts of Oceania and the Modern and Contemporary Galleries.Unlock sixteen unique mini-documentaries called Ocean Insights that feature original footage and interviews with science’s leading ocean experts.Listen to a captivating and entertaining soundtrack featuring an original score and music from Miles Davis, The Flaming Lips, The Edisons, and more.Experience an evocative narrative with full voice cast - Anna Akana (YouTube), Mira Furlan (Lost, Babylon 5), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (Black Sails, Hotel Rwanda), and Ally Maki (Toy Story 4).Throughout eight different dives you'll explore the untouched world of our ocean and use technology at the edge of our understanding - tracking sea creatures, unraveling mysteries, and interacting with the ocean like never before.Become a part of a newly-formed research team using groundbreaking technologies to see, hear, and interact with the ocean in a more meaningful way than has ever been attempted. Set in the near future, Beyond Blue explores the mysteries of our ocean through the eyes of Mirai, a deep-sea explorer and scientist. Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. ![]()
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