Post #562836 by cheekytiki on Mon, Nov 1, 2010 9:51 AM

http://www.canninghouse.com/content/events/

Cheekytiki are providing various items for the show some small some very large, this exhibition is hoped to travel worldwide over the next few years ending up on Easter Island. So come on down

EXHIBITION | Easter Island, Myths, and Popular Culture
The appeal of Easter Island has been predominately evidenced though the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and scientists, whose reports have inspired the continuous flow of visiting tourists. Research has long focused on the way in which the famous moai were created, treated, and considered within the confines of Easter Island's landscape. Yet the moai have long held a popular appeal that has extended far into the worldwide cultural conscious, drawn to fantasies of a detached and distant civilisation.

This exhibition aims, for the first time, to bring together the fascinating diversity of cultural artefacts that have depicted Easter Island, in an attempt to help define the popular appeal of the moai in particular. Fiction films, adverts, cartoons, album covers, toys and board games, computer games, novels, and comic books will form a central part of this exhibition. Objects of material culture are not lacking, in which you will find moai replicas positioned as tissue box holders, glowing lamps, salt and pepper shakers, cushions, and fruit machine symbols, amongst others.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Ian Conrich, a specialist on film, visual and material culture of the Pacific islands. Co-curators are Dr Roy Smith and Martyn Harris.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Chile.

Private View: 9 November
From 6:30 to 8:30pm

From 9 - 26 November
Opening times: 2pm - 6pm
[email protected]
Free Entrance
Tickets: £0.00 (£0.00 incl. VAT) / Members: £0.00 (£0.00 incl. VAT)