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hyper girls 1998

Artwork hyper girls this artwork made of Videotape: 3 minutes, colour, stereo, created in 1998-01-01
Accession No.
1999.038
Date Created
1998
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
videotape
Medium
Videotape: 3 minutes, colour, stereo
Place Created
Auckland
Credit Line
The James C. Sourris AM Collection.
Purchased 1999 with funds from James C. Sourris through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

In hyper girls, aspects of Ani O’Neill’s and Lisa Reihana’s heritage — Cook Islander and Māori respectively — are juxtaposed with popular culture, fashion and design through a process of segmenting or splitting the screen into a fast-moving display of sound and image. These ‘Pacific Sisters’ are street-wise young women with a fresh and humorous take on contemporary life: ‘Hyper Girls rock, Hyper Girls rule’. They bridge the gap between international fashionistas and cultural ambassadors with a mere swoop of the mascara wand, secure in the knowledge that ‘Brown is the new gold, girls are the next boys, and that a place in history is just a newsflash away’.1

 

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  1. Ani O'Neill and Lisa Reihana, [Artists' statement] to Anne Kirker, QAGOMA Research Library, March 1999.
     

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O'Neill & Reihana: hyper girls

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