Source: ANU
Return of the Native: Contestation, Collaboration and Co-authorship in Museum Spaces
A two-day international symposium on Indigenising museum spaces – focusing on the historical and contemporary impact of Indigenous agents, collections and ideas on museum practice today.
Date & time
9.30am 18 June – 5pm 19 June 2015
Location
Sir Roland Wilson Building #120
McCoy Circuit, ANU Campus
Sir Roland Wilson Building #120
McCoy Circuit, ANU Campus
PROGRAM
Thursday 18 June – Sir Roland Wilson Building – Conference Room (1.02)
| 9.30-9.45 | Welcome to Country | Paul House |
| 9.45-10.30 | Alec Coles, CEO, Western Australian Museum | Key note address: Aboriginal Agency and the New Museum Project |
| 10.30-11.00 | Margo Neale Executive Indigenous Advisor & Senior Indigenous Curator National Museum of Australia |
Blak to the future: Songlining Museum Spaces |
| 11.00-11.15 | Morning Tea | |
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NOTE: The following session will be held upstairs in Seminar Room (3.02) |
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| 11.15-11.45 | John Carty Research Fellow Research School of Humanities & the Arts Australian National University |
Curating the Curators: some reflections on the politics and poetics of ‘consultations’ |
| 11.45-12.15 | Cressida Fforde, Steve Hemming, Daryle Rigney, Lyndon Ormond-Parker and Major Sumner National Centre for Indigenous Studies Australian National University |
Understanding Indigenous Agency in the Context of Repatriation |
| 12.15-12.45 | Catherine Massola PhD Candidate School of Archaeology and Anthropology The Australian National University |
The Warmun Community Collection: Dissonance and Silence |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch | |
| 1.45-2.15 | Una Rey Independent Curator & Lecturer, The School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle |
The Brindle Baby: intercultural collaboration and influence in visual arts practice |
| 2.15-2.45 | Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Artist, Research Fellow, University of Oxford & Julie Gough, Artist, Writer, Curator |
The Importance of Being Anachronistic
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| 2.45-3.15 | Kim Mahood Artist, Writer |
Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Minefield or Fertile Ground? |
| 3.15-3.30 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30-4.00 | Djon Mundine OAM Art Activist, Independent Curator, Scholar |
Looking Black in Anger – 30 years on the front line of Aboriginal Art |
| 4.00-4.30 | Terry Smith Andrew W Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and TheoryHenry Clay Frick Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh |
Exhibiting Indigeneity |
| 4.30-5.00 | Special Event: Launch of Artlink’s annual Indigenous issue – guest edited by Daniel Browning and Djon Mundine | Artlink: Indigenous Global |
| 5.00-6.00 | Drinks | |
Friday 19 June – Sir Roland Wilson Building – Conference Room (1.02), and the National Museum of Australia
| 9.30-10.15 | Dawn Casey Former Director of the National Museum of Australia, Western Australian Museum and Powerhouse Museum |
Key note: A personal reflection – 30 years in the service of Indigenous agency and ideas |
| 10.15-10.45 | David Garneau Head, Visual Arts University of Regina, Canada |
Indigenous Aesthetic Sovereignty and Compromise in Non-Indigenous Display Spaces |
| 10.45-11.00 | Morning Tea | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Chanel Clarke Curator, Māori Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, New Zealand |
Indigenous Agency at Auckland Museum- Within and Outside the Walls
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| 11.30-12.00 | Hikitia Harawira Collection Manager, Taonga Maori Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, New Zealand |
Giving them back their Mana |
| 12.00-1.00 | Lunch @National Museum of Australia (NMA) cafe | |
| 1.00-2.00 | National Museum of Australia Tour of Gallery of First Australians and Open Collections | |
| 2.00-2.30 | Crispin Howarth Curator Pacific Arts National Gallery of Australia |
Indigenous Protocols in Practice: a curator’s perspective |
| 2.30-3.00 | Anna Edmundson Research Fellow Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies Sir Roland Wilson Building Australian National University |
What if museums weren’t western? A case study from PNG |
| 3.00-3.15 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.15-3.45 | Diana James Senior Research Associate & Coordinator; Songlines of the Western Desert ARC College of Arts and Social Sciences Australian National University |
Songlines Dust Storm – community controversy engulfs museum |
| 3.45-4.15 | Ian McLean Research Professor of Contemporary Art University of Wollongong |
Inter-relational agency: a new theory of Aboriginal art |
| 4.15-5.00 | Laurajane Smith Head, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies School of Archaeology and Anthropology Australian National University |
Return of the Native: Key points and future issues |
| 5.00 – 6.00 | Drinks |