Tuesday 26th March:  11.40 – 12.40

Panel Members:

• Sana Reana Balai
• Taloi Havini
• Marilyn Havini
• Jesmaine Sakoi Gano
• Elisa Jane Carmichael 
  
• Moderated by Ruth McDougall
  

Bio:

Ruth McDougall is currently Curator of Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery l Gallery of Modern Art, where she has worked as part of the Asia Pacific Art Department since 2003. In this role she has curated No 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966–2016, Threads: Contemporary Textiles and the Social Fabric (2011), and co-curated the GOMA 10 exhibition Lucent (2016). McDougall has formed part of the core curatorial team for the 2018, 2015 and 2012 iterations of the QAGOMA’s signature exhibition series, The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT). She co-curated the Pacific Textiles Project in APT5(2006). McDougall has a Masters, Visual Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, and was a recipient of the inaugural round of Samstag Visual Arts Scholarships in 1994. In 2013 she undertook a Churchill Fellowship to research the presentation and promotion of Pacific textiles.

Abstract:

Relationships of Value: Spaces of self-determination

This panel explores the relationship that are play within the APT9 Women’sWealth project;  engaging with the artworks on display, the networks of support and collaboration through which the project evolved and the spaces created in which new relationships of strength and self-determination could be built.

Panel Discussion

Tuesday 26th March:  14.30 – 15.30

Panel Members:

• Lindy Allen
• Dr Roberta Colombo Dougoud
• Dr Louise Hamby
• Dr Beatrice Voirol,
  

Bio:

Lindy Allen is an anthropologist and cultural heritage expert, and Research Associate at Museums Victoria (Melbourne). Until 2018, she was Senior Curator (Anthropology - Northern Australian Indigenous Collections) and Manager Repatriation at MV. Her research is focused on Indigenous collections working in collaboration with Indigenous Australian communities.

Roberta Colombo Dougoud is curator of Oceania at MEG (Geneva). She has carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Morocco and Italy. Her research focused on changes in art, history of collections, contemporary Oceanic art, art and identity, tourism, intercultural communication and museography. She curated several exhibitions on Oceanic art.

Louise Hamby is a Research Fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, specialising in museum collections from Arnhem Land. She is the CI on the ARC Linkage grant, The legacy of 50 years of collecting at Milingimbi Mission.

Beatrice Voirol is curator for Oceania at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. She completed her PhD at Goettingen University in Germany on the cultural transformation processes of the sea shell Melo in Papua and Indonesia. She did nine months of field research in different locations of West Papua. 

Abstract:

Old collections, restoring connections, new collaborations: the Milingimbi Makarrata

Milingimbi was for more than 50 years a prolific centre of art creation.  Many objects found their ways into Australian and oversea museums but information were not accessible anymore for the Milingimbi community. In the panel different examples of collaboration between Milingimbi community and museums will be presented and discussed.