SCHEDULE

DAY ZERO | 12 JUNE 2024

Romer Waikīkī at The Ambassador
Waikīkī Swim & Social Club
2040 Kūhiō Ave
Honolulu, HI 96815

» REGISTRATION CLOSED «

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18:00–20:00 | 6pm–8pm

Art Summit 2024 SUNSET GATHERING
On the eve of Art Summit 2024, have a drink and talk story with us in Waikīkī. Listen to the kick-back sounds of Aloha Got Soul, make beautiful lei with The Lei Bar, and tell us what aloha means to you in our confessional booth. Meet the Art Summit participants and some of our Hawai‘i Triennial 2025 (HT25) artists. Kindly co-hosted by Romer Waikīkī at The Ambassador with Hawai‘i Contemporary.

Light pūpū, cash bar. $10 valet parking.

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12:30–13:30 | 12:30PM–1:30PM

Gallery 12 | EXHIBITION TOUR • Kapulani Landgraf: ‘AU‘A
Drop in for a guided tour of ‘Au‘a, led by Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tyler Cann. Kapulani Landgraf’s powerful installation ʻAuʻa was initially shown at the museum as part of Honolulu Biennial 2019. Featuring a new element created by the artist, this exhibition debuts the edition of ʻAuʻa that HoMA subsequently acquired for its permanent collection. “The work is about lāhui, a collective voice and a collective conviction to correct the wrong.” Landgraf says. “And even though there are just 108 people represented, there are thousands there, representing generations upon generations of our ancestors and our future descendants.”

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12:30–13:30 | 12:30PM–1:30PM     

Gallery 14 | EXHIBITION TOUR • Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood
Drop in for a guided tour of The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood, led by HoMA Curator of Textiles and Historic Arts of Hawai‘i, Tory Laitila. This exhibition brings together select images from HoMA’s collection that appear in Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood, published by Awaiaulu in 2022. A bilingual chronicle in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i and English of the life and reign of Kamehameha I (1736–1819) and Kamehameha II (1797–1824), Ke Kumu Aupuni was written by Samuel Mānaiakalani Kamakau (1815–1876) and serialized in the Hawaiian language newspaper Ka Nupepa Kuokoa between 1866 and 1868. The exhibition celebrates this important publication and offers a closer look at the complex context around early images of Hawai‘i by European artists.

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14:00–15:00 | 2pm–3pm

Doris Duke Theatre | ALOHA KA‘APUNI - REVOLUTIONARY ALOHA
A poetic evocation by HT25 artist Brandy Nālani McDougall. The 2023–25 Hawaiʻi State Poet Laureate expounds on the revolutionary dimension of aloha in Hawaiian cultural and political practice, and evokes the role of poetry in practices of resistance and social movements.

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15:00–15:20 | 3pm–3:20pm

Doris Duke Theatre | ART INSIGHT: Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos)
HT25 artist Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos), visiting from Taipei, Taiwan, talks about her art practice and recent work. 

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15:30–16:30 | 3:30pm–4:30PM

Doris Duke Theatre | ALOHA ʻĀINA: THAT WHICH FEEDS US 
A roundtable with HT25 artists Las Nietas de Nonó (mulowayi iyaye nonó), Nanea Lum, Tiare Ribeaux, and Shannon Te Ao, moderated by curator Healoha Johnston. The artists discuss the layered meanings of aloha ʻāina, which can be translated into “love of land.” Aloha ‘āina can also refer to the care and fearless defense of land and ocean, a Hawai‘i-specific nationalism, an acknowledgement of the inter-connectivity in all living elements — whereby the boundaries of contemporary art be addressed.

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16:30–16:50 | 4:30pm–4:50PM

Doris Duke Theatre | ART INSIGHT: Sione Faletau 
HT25 artist Sione Faletau, visiting from Ōtara, South Auckland, talks about his art practice and recent work. 

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17:00–18:00 | 5pm–6PM

Doris Duke Theatre | HAWAI‘I TO PALESTINE: UN/LEARNING, RESISTANCE, AND AFFIRMATION 
A roundtable with HT25 artists Melissa Chimera, Lehuauakea, and Russell Sunabe, moderated by associate curator of programs & social practice Navid Najafi and curator ‘Ihilani Lasconia. In considering a provocation put forth by HT25 artist Yazan Khalili, the panel discusses the notion of homeland, unlearning and learning allyship, and transnational justice and solidarity, as well as the positions of art and art institutions.

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18:00–19:00 | 6PM–7PM

Gallery 12 | EXHIBITION TOUR • Kapulani Landgraf: ‘AU‘A
Led by HoMA Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tyler Cann.

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18:00–19:00 | 6PM–7PM

Gallery 27 & 28 | EXHIBITION TOUR • Fashioning Aloha
Drop in for a guided tour of Fashioning Aloha, led by HoMA Curator of Textiles and Historic Arts of Hawai‘i, Tory Laitila. Fashioning Aloha showcases the diversity and inspiration of design motifs in aloha wear — holokū (gowns), mu‘umu‘u, holomu‘u (dresses), and aloha shirts. Fashioning Aloha traces the evolution of aloha wear through a stylish feast for the eyes. Garments are paired with their textile motifs’ source materials from the museum’s collection, such as traditional Hawaiian kapa (bark cloth), Japanese kimono, a Chinese dragon robe and cheongsam, and Hawaiian quilts.

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19:00 | 7pm

Central Courtyard | MUSICAL PERFORMANCE • Taimane
Enjoy a special musical performance by ‘ukulele virtuoso and Shangri-La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, & Design artist-in-residence Taimane. Co-presented with Shangri-La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, & Design.

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12:00–15:00 | 12pm–3pm

ARTIST ENCOUNTERS
Drop in, talk story with, and learn more about the work of Hawai‘i-based artists, makers, and practitioners.

• Café —> HT25 artist Kahi Ching discusses and demonstrates ‘umeke lā‘au, the artist’s adaptation of bonsai, as practiced through a Native Hawaiian lens.

• Sculpture Courtyard —> HT22 collaborator Keanahala prepares lauhala (Pandanus leaves) for weaving mats of varying sizes. Watch, learn, and kōkua (assist) in this cultural practice that underscores community and connection.

• Pō Theatre —> HT22 film collective Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina presents a series of five programs documenting the 5th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture (1988) in Queensland, Australia.

• Café —> The Lei Bar perpetuates the cultural practices of making flower lei. Drop in to learn simple lei styles and make your own lei.

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12:00–13:30 | 12pm–1:30PM

Multi-Purpose Room, First Floor | DEMO • AGAR-AGAR KIT
A special demonstration and tasting with HT25 visiting artist Hyemin Son of Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC). This program will focus on agar-agar (hancheon), an edible jelly that’s derived from umutgasari, a red algae native to the ocean waters around South Korea. Naturally grown and hand harvested by divers in southeast Asia, agar-agar has been used in local cuisines for centuries. Hyemin will talk about agar-agar and how RBSC engages with it in their work — both as a culinary delight and as a bioplastic.

No registration, but space is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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14:30–15:30 | 2:30pm–3:30pm

Second Floor | EXHIBITION TOUR: ʻAi ā manō
A limited-capacity tour led by curators Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick, Kaili Chun, and Kapulani Landgraf. ʻAi ā manō (2024) continues the energetic work begun during the making of Mai hoʻohuli i ka lima i luna (2020), the first group exhibition of Native Hawaiian contemporary art from the Art in Public Places (APP) Collection of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA). ʻAi ā manō emphasizes Native Hawaiian art with “bite.” The exhibition also calls attention to the efforts made by the SFCA over the past four years to address the lack of representation of Native Hawaiian artists and artwork within the APP Collection through increased commissions, acquisitions, exhibitions, and public programming.

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15:30–17:00 | 3:30pm–5pm

Multi-Purpose Room | MO‘OKŪ‘AUHAU: CURATING CONTEXT, CARE, AND CONTINUITY 
A curatorial workshop with HT25 curators Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Binna Choi, and Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu with guest curators Diana Campbell, Josh Tengan, and David Teh. Curatorial practitioners reflect, share, and discuss the values and methodologies of exhibition making; in particular, large-scale shows like biennials or triennials, with respect to place, geography, or so-called “context” and how genealogy is understood.

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19:00 | 7PM

ON VIEW: Nu‘uanu Streaming
A public art project by HT25 artist Nanea Lum. This large-scale video — which is projected onto the blacktop of a city block on Nuʻuanu Avenue — depicts the flowing water of Nuʻuanu Stream and the ritual of burying canvases under rocks in the stream bed. The project underscores the issue of water diversion in Hawaiʻi’s post-contact society and asks the people of Honolulu to consider the deep history of sharing water in pre-contact Hawai‘i.

Nuʻuanu Streaming is funded by Native Arts & Culture Foundation’s 2023 LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program.