“Someone else’s elsewhere”: Tropical Natures in <i>Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique</i> (1804) and <i>in Pursuit of Venus [infected]</i> (2015–2017)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article offers a critical analysis of a video-art installation by Māori artist Lisa Reihana titled in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (2015–2017), a live-action reimagining of and contemporary response to the early nineteenth-century wallpaper Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (1804), designed by Jean Gabriel Charvet under the commission of wallpaper manufacturer Joseph Dufour et Cie. Locating the power of Reihana’s critical response to the wallpaper in her parodic mimicry of its fabulated landscape, this article contextualizes both works within the scope of scientific discovery and colonial encounter during the long eighteenth century as they are depicted through visual representation. It argues that the landscape shared by the wallpaper and the video installation is the site of contestation on which Reihana critiques and reclaims control over the historical visual narrative through her use of parody, contradiction, and video technology.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".