Pacific Identity through Space and Time in Lily Laita's Va i Ta
Pacific Identity through Space and Time in Lily Laita's Va i Ta
dc.contributor.author | Webb-Binder, Bernida | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-22T17:34:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-22T17:34:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.description | Paper submitted to The Space Between: Negotiating Culture, Place, and Identity in the Pacific; based on the indigenous Oceanic concept, va, a space marked by tension and transformation and by confluences and connections | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay considers Lily Laita’s exploration of Pacific identity through space and time iin her large-scale, four-part painting Va i Ta Taeao Lalata E Aunoa Ma Gagana, created in 2000. Va i Ta constitutes a visual representation of Pacific identity and how it relates to notions of the vā (space between). The Samoan concept of vā evokes an ever-shifting and productive paradigm that eschews linear or static understandings of space and time. Indeed, the vā represents a dynamic moment that contains the present, past, and future. This “in-between” space bursts with potential and creativity. In Va i Ta Taeao Lalata E Aunoa Ma Gagana, Laita follows the creative impulse to work in a space without time or tense. The result is a timeless painting that illustrates Pacific identity as it is linked to the space-time continuum of the vā. | |
dc.format.extent | 10 p. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Webb-Binder, B. 2009. Pacific Identity through Space and Time in Lily Laita's Va i Ta. In The Space Between: Negotiating Culture, Place, and Identity in the Pacific, edited by A. Marata Tamaira, 25-34. Occasional Paper Series 44. Honolulu, Hawai‘i: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0897-8905 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/14681 | |
dc.publisher | Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Occasional Papers no. 44 / Center for Pacific Islands Studies | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Occasional paper series / Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa | |
dc.subject | Lily Laita | |
dc.subject | space (vā) | |
dc.subject | time | |
dc.subject | identity | |
dc.subject | narrative | |
dc.subject | Aotearoa/New Zealand | |
dc.subject | contemporary Pacific art | |
dc.title | Pacific Identity through Space and Time in Lily Laita's Va i Ta | |
dc.type | Paper | |
dc.type.dcmi | Paper |
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