Tau o Mai – In conversation with Miriama Bono and Tahe Drollet
Tuesday 14 October, 1-2pm
McDonald Seminar Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ.
Join curator and artist Miriama Bono in conversation with artist Tahe Drollet, both visiting Cambridge from Tahiti in collaboration with Pasifika arts collective the SaVĀge K’lub. They will discuss their work featuring in the Tau o Mai | Journeys with Mai exhibition opening at the Fitzwilliam Museum this month. Tahe is a contemporary mixed media artist whose work speaks across time and space, interweaving Polynesian and European references to explore cross-cultural themes. A respected cultural practitioner, Miriama Bono’s curatorial and artistic practice encompasses exhibitions, architecture, podcasting, and museum leadership. The session will explore themes presented in the upcoming exhibition, which centres around Sir Joshua Reynolds’ iconic portrait of Mai (c. 1776), who was the first Polynesian person to visit England.
This is a collaborative event between The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Cambridge Visual Culture (CVC).
Image caption/credit: Portraits of Miriama Bono and Tahe Drollet/ Salvador Brown.
