Around 1,000 years after Tahiti was first settled by Polynesians, the English sailor Samuel Wallis arrived to claim the territory as ‘King George the Third’s Island‘. The Tahitians attempted to repulse the intruders, but the superior weaponry of the English made an unequal match. When the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived the following [...]
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Journey So Far
Idea of South stories- Internet Art in the Global SouthFrom artists in the Global South including works oriented towards its geography and politics […]
- Lingua Franca - 16 January 2010 - Dying wordsYes. If we were conducting this interview in Kayardild and you just told me, 'Move the mic a little closer,' or something, a Kayardild instruction would have translated as something like, 'Move the mic slightly to the south,' even if it was half an inch. And even though we're sitting in a studio that's dark, we can't see th […]
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- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa - Sur de neuvoA program looking at the meaning of South in Spain […]
- Internet Art in the Global South
