Fiji's artistic heritage: impact and engagement in Fiji

该项目将把ahrc资助的斐济艺术研究项目（2011- 2014）的成果转化为对斐济的重大影响，为原项目在原籍国的活动提供长期遗产，并吸引新的受众。与斐济博物馆和斐济驻英国高级专员公署的现有关系将被激活，同时与苏瓦的iTaukei信托基金委员会（正在开发一个博物馆/文化中心）、英国驻斐济高级专员公署和其他斐济组织的新关系将被激活，以确保斐济的文化和经济部门获得实质性利益。产生影响的工作将分两个阶段进行。第一个（2016年10月至2017年2月）将利用总结项目展览“斐济：太平洋的艺术与生活”，该展览将在东安格利亚大学塞恩斯伯里视觉艺术中心展出。这将是斐济有史以来最全面的展览，展示来自主要收藏的重要历史材料，包括剑桥、牛津、阿伯丁和大英博物馆以及斐济博物馆的收藏。展览的一个主要主题是斐济人在过去两个世纪中在重大政治、宗教和经济影响和动荡的背景下的创造性适应能力。因此，展览将展出主要的当代作品，包括最近在温莎女王90岁生日庆典上展出的26英尺长的新造双壳独木舟（德鲁亚），以及展示文化习俗连续性的大型涂漆树皮布（15英尺x 6英尺）。来自斐济的四位策展人和四位艺术家将被邀请到诺维奇居住，参加围绕展览内容和主题的研讨会和知识交流会议。这是双向的。斐济人将在英国看到最好的材料，并接受国际标准博物馆实践的培训。作为回报，他们将与塞恩斯伯里中心教育团队合作，提供斐济人对收藏和展览的看法。独木舟是原始项目的一个意想不到的结果，它将成为一种实用和隐喻的工具，用于阐明与可持续资源的使用有关的问题（它完全由木材和椰壳绳索制成），气候和海平面变化以及遗产管理。斐济的客人还将参观剑桥考古与人类学博物馆和牛津皮特河博物馆，参观斐济的藏品，建立相互合作关系，并在各种媒体上获得新艺术品的灵感。重点通知项目的第二阶段主要在斐济进行（2017年3月至9月）。在这里，四位策展人和四位艺术家将把他们在英国的经验转化为实际成果——在这个过程中培训和激励同事和更广泛的斐济社区。斐济博物馆的同事们将把他们的经验融入到他们当前的战略发展规划中，从而增强展示、存储设施和教育项目。此外，斐济博物馆将于2017年8月举办一场展览，展出访问英国的艺术家的新作品，恰逢为期一周的木槿节，吸引数万人前往苏瓦中部。斐济博物馆的工作人员还将举办讲习班，重点关注工艺技能和学校对遗产问题的参与。iTaukei信托基金理事会将举办讲习班，并发展一个由当地实地工作者组成的网络，以记录文化知识，特别是妇女艺术领域的文化知识，从而在该国偏远地区产生影响。他们还将把他们在英国的经验转移到他们的新博物馆建筑和设施的发展中。将为一项商业独木舟建造倡议奠定基础，作为农村发展政策的一部分与斐济政府进行讨论，以阻止向城市流动。

This project will convert the results of the AHRC-funded Fijian Art research project (2011-14) into significant impacts in Fiji, securing a long-term legacy for the activities of the original project in the country of origin and reaching new audiences. Existing relationships with Fiji Museum and the Fiji High Commission to the UK will be activated alongside new relationships with the iTaukei Trust Fund Board in Suva (which is developing a museum/cultural centre), the UK High Commission in Fiji and other Fiji-based organisations to ensure there is substantial benefit to the cultural and economic sectors in Fiji.The work of impact generation will take place in two phases. The first (Oct 2016 - Feb 2017) will take advantage of the summative project exhibition, 'Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific', which will be shown at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia during that period. This will be the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Fiji, displaying important historic material from major collections, including those in Cambridge, Oxford, Aberdeen and the British Museum, as well as Fiji Museum. A major theme of the exhibition is the creative adaptability of Fijians over the last two centuries in the context of major political, religious and economic influences and disturbances. The exhibition will accordingly show major contemporary works, including a 26ft-long newly built double-hulled canoe (drua), which recently featured in the Queen's 90th birthday pageant at Windsor, and a large (15ft x 6ft) painted barkcloth, showing continuity of cultural practice.Four curators and four artists from Fiji, identified as a result of the original project, will be invited for residencies in Norwich, to participate in workshops and knowledge exchange sessions around the exhibition, its content and themes. This will work both ways. Fijians will see the finest material in the UK and receive training in international-standard museum practice. They will reciprocate by engaging with the Sainsbury Centre Education team, providing Fijian perspectives on collections and exhibitions. The canoe, an unexpected outcome of the original project, will be a vehicle, practical and metaphorical, for illuminating issues connected to the use of sustainable resources (it is made entirely of wood and coir cordage), climate and sea-level changes and heritage management. The Fijian guests will also visit Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford to see the Fijian collections there, to establish mutual collaborative relations and to derive inspiration for new artworks in a range of media.The second phase of the Highlight Notice project mostly takes place in Fiji (Mar-Sep 2017). Here the four curators and four artists will convert their experiences in the UK into practical outcomes - training and inspiring colleagues and the broader Fijian community in the process. Fiji Museum colleagues will feed their experiences into their current strategic development planning, leading to enhanced displays, storage facilities and educational programmes. In addition, Fiji Museum will mount an exhibition in August 2017 of new work by the artists who visited the UK, coinciding with the week-long Hibiscus Festival that brings tens of thousands of people to central Suva. Fiji Museum staff will also conduct workshops focusing on craft skills and schools' engagement with heritage issues. The iTaukei Trust Fund Board will host workshops and develop a network of local fieldworkers to document cultural knowledge, especially in the area of women's arts, achieving impacts in remote areas of the country. They will also transfer their UK experiences into the development of their new museum building and facilities. Foundations will be laid for a commercial canoe-building initiative, to be discussed with the Fiji Government as part of rural development policy, discouraging urban drift.