ひろしま hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako

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  • October 14, 2011 - February 12, 2012
  • This exhibition features an installation of 48 photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako of clothing and accessories left behind by victims of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Unlike the black-and-white images of devastated landscapes often associated with the bombing, Ishiuchi’s colour photographs capture her own moments of encounter with everyday objects that are now preserved at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Testaments to a profound trauma, her images at once illuminate the beauty and complexity of individual lives, and the weight of collective history. Born in 1947 in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Ishiuchi began her artistic career in the late 1970s and is now one of that country’s leading contemporary photographers. This is the first exhibition of Ishiuchi’s ひろしま hiroshima series outside Japan. For a list of related programming, please visit www.moa.ubc.ca/events. Exhibition sponsored in part by Shiseido and the Japan Foundation. Media sponsor The Georgia Straight.
  • A note about the artist's name and the exhibition title: The artist is referred to as Ishiuchi Miyako, or Ishiuchi (not Miyako Ishiuchi or Miyako). ひろしま means Hiroshima, written in Japanese hiragana characters. Hiragana is one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana. These characters were extensively used by women in former times; for Ishiuchi, using this style for the title emphasizes that this series is made from the point of view and feelings of a woman. It is the artist’s wish that that the hiragana appears before the word ‘hiroshima’ as part of MOA’s exhibition title, and that the ‘h’ in Hiroshima not be capitalized.

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Museum of Anthropology Annual Report 2011-2012

The report outlines the museum's activities and finances for the previous fiscal year, including listing staff, attendance figures, acquisitions, exhibitions, educational activities, public programming, events, loans, research projects, and publications of the museum and its staff. It includes descriptions of awards presented to the museum, the launch of the Voices of the Canoe website, the first full year of the Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library & Archives, changes to the Native Youth Program, and other initiatives.

Karen Duffek fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1978 - 2012

The fonds relate primarily to research Karen Duffek conducted and exhibitions she curated or was involved in. In addition, some files relate to publications Duffek wrote. Files consist of research materials, exhibition planning and implementation, publications and articles, correspondences, and artist interviews.
The fonds is arranged into the following two series:

  1. Research Projects
  2. Exhibitions

Karen Duffek

Ishiuchi Miyako “ひろしま Hiroshima”

This sub-series consists of records relating to “ひろしま Hiroshima,” an exhibition of photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako. The exhibition, which had never previously been displayed outside of Japan, consists of photographs of clothing and accessories of victims of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. “ひろしま Hiroshima” opened at MOA on October 14th, 2011, and ran until February 12th, 2012.

Records within the sub-series include the exhibition proposal, budgets, reports, grant applications, correspondence, images of artworks, interview transcripts, the exhibition’s comment log-book, promotional materials, and press cuttings.

Exhibition books and catalogues

Series consists of books and catalogues pertaining to exhibitions and collections at the Museum of Anthropology. The following exhibitions and collection are covered by publications within the series:

  • Bodies of Enchantment: Puppets from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas
  • Charles Edenshaw
  • Chinese Art
  • Divine Threads: The Visual and Material Culture of Cantonese Opera
  • Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
  • Gawa Gyani
  • Heaven, Hell, and Somewhere In Between: Portuguese Popular Art
  • ひろしま Hiroshima
  • Knowledge Within
  • Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories
  • Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures
  • Luminescence: The Silver of Peru (English)
  • Luminiscencia: La Plata del Perú (Spanish)
  • People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point
  • Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists
  • Savage Graces
  • The H.R. MacMillan Collection
  • The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 - 2011
  • The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
  • The Potter's Art: Contributions to the Study of the Koerner Collection of European Ceramics
  • The Transforming Image
  • The Walter and Marianne Koerner Collection
  • Theatrum Mundi: Masks and Masquerades in Mexico and the Andes
  • Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia
  • Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation
  • Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art