What is it like to live, as many of us in the Southern Hemisphere do, with our eyes forever on a different part of the world?
Pacific Real Time, a 2016 Auckland Art Fair Project, uses contemporary art to explore what it means to be a Pacific artist or art professional in a globalised world, particularly one which has been dominated by northern hemisphere mores, morals and institutions.
For most of the 20th century, New Zealand's main cultural drivers were Euro-American.
![Michael Parekowhai's Kapa Haka (Maquette) 2014. Automotive paint on fibreglass.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/FJE5KVNSYX6CJYWTWZF2SAR664.jpg?auth=9b5174fb7990e579a2c88c0d2052d9fda68eb4892db53b9b469d518b822ee841&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
Art fairs are a remnant example of this, dating back to the Paris Salon and the Venice Biennale (which started, in 1895, as a commercial fair and was run this way until the 1950s).