Return of the Native Conference at ANU

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

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
NOTE: The following session will be held upstairs in Seminar Room (3.02)
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
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
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