Yvonne Carrillo – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 10.10 – 10.30
Abstract:
The Australian Museum’ ‘Bilas’ acquisition: Collecting Beetles, Barkcloth and Hair; a collaborative research project with the Maring, Lower Jimi, the Yalu, Kagua, Southern Highlands and Laiagam, Enga.
This paper will explore the planning, processes and outcomes over a period of 14 months in the development of three cultural collections, exploring contemporary perspectives to Bilas (Body Adornment). Three highlands cultural groups centered their group identity, spirituality and use of their living environment to create three distinctive living artworks; The Maring and their Glong headdress made of green beetles; the Yalu and their barkcloth wickerwork spirit masks; and the Laiagam wigs made of human hair
Ane Tonga – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 10.10 – 10.30
Bio:
Ane Tonga is an artist and curator based in Auckland. Her artistic practice has examine dinter-subjective and collective experiences of gender, place and cultural value. She has undertaken curatorial roles, most recently as the Lead Exhibition Curator at Rotorua MuseumTe Whare Taonga o Te Arawa where she published Te Ringa Rehe (2017), a monograph on the legacy of Te Arawa master weaver, Emily Rangitiaria Schuster OBE QSM (1927-1997). She has also written for numerous art publications on artists including Fiona Pardington, Lonnie Hutchinson and The Pacific Sisters.
Abstract:
Visualising Pacific Feminisms
This paper will consider the way in which female artists working within lens-based practices enable us to widen the scope and understanding of Pacific feminisms as it translates into, and through, artistic practices. This paper will highlight the attempts of artists Edith Amituanai (b.1980) and Vea Mafile’o (1981) whose individual practices has bridged the divide between individual and communal ontologies inherent within Western feminist frameworks.
Anne Allen – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 10.10 – 10.30
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Caroline Vercoe – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.00 – 11.20
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Hilke Thode-Arora – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.00 – 11.20
Bio:
German anthropologist Dr Hilke Thode-Arora is the Curator for Oceania at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich. Specialized on material culture, the history of museum collections and interethnic relations, her work included long-term fieldwork in Niue, Samoa and New Zealand. She is one of the authors of the ‘Guidelines on Dealing with Collections from Colonial Contexts’.
Abstract:
The ‘Guidelines on Dealing with Collections from Colonial Contexts’ – an Interdisciplinary and International Approach
Organised by the German Museum Association, an interdisciplinary work group of German anthropologists, historians, archaeologists, zoologists, lawyers and museum specialists for Africa, Oceania and Asia as well as scholars and community representatives, Pacific ones among them, published a the ‘Guidelines on Dealing with Collections
Marion Bertin – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.20 – 11.40
Bio:
After graduating in history of art and museology from the École du Louvre, Marion Bertin started a PhD in anthropology in the École du Louvre and the Université de La Rochelle in 2016. She works on the circulations and values of oceanic objects in private and public collections. Her research precisely deals with the different values - esthetic, economic, artistic, sacred, patrimonial - that an individual object could be assessed on depending on the context, such as the so-called tribal art market, museums and heritage. She is still interested in museums studies and is an active member of the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM).
Abstract:
Between past and present: seven contemporary Kanak doorposts
This case-study considers the new permanent installation of contemporary doorposts in the “Bwenaado” room in the Cultural Center Jean-Marie Tjibaou in Noumea. It offers an assessment of cultural rebirth in New Caledonia and the discursive possibilities afforded by contemporary art.
Ching-yeh Hsu– Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.20 – 11.40
Bio:
Dr. Hsu, Ching-yeh is an art historian and a critic of visual cultures. She had earned her Ph. D. at the University of Iowa( US) in 1996. She is a professor at the University of Taipei. Hsu participated and presented papers in 2014, 2016 and 2017 PAA symposium
Abstract:
Becoming - Indigenous Woman as Resilience
This information will be included in the Conference Handbook to assist delegates with choosing sessions
Keywords: Deleuzean Becoming-, event, Atayal textile, Pangcah ( Amis language), Resilience.
Margaret Farmer & Melissa Cadden - Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.40 – 12.00
Bio:
Margaret Farmer, Senior Curator, Official and Private Records, Australian War Memorial, has curated a number of exhibitions, including the touring exhibition Terra Alterius: Land of Another (2004–2006).
Melissa Cadden, Senior Curator, Military Heraldry and Technology, Australian War Memorial, has extensive experience working with the National Collection and exhibition development across multiple Australian cultural institutions.
Abstract:
‘The Courage for Peace’ – Perspectives on peace-building in Bougainville, East Timor and the Solomon Islands
As the Australian War Memorial develops the exhibition ‘The Courage for Peace’ it is engaging with cultural practitioners from and closely connected to Bougainville, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands to seek their perspectives on the peacebuilding journeys undertaken in those countries. This presentation will discuss this engagement and accompanying collection-based research.
Crispin Howarth– Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 11.40 – 12.00
Bio:
Since 2007, Crispin Howarth has held the position of Curator for Pacific Arts at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Abstract:
“An old battered hat” pulling together the history of a Hawaiian Mahiole feathered helmet.
Crispin Howarth presents the history of an 18th century Hawaiian Mahiole feathered helmet found in a National Gallery of Australia storeroom. Through tracing the helmet’s line of ownership across the world, the foundation of the National Pacific Arts collection by the yet to be built National Gallery of Australia can be shared
Moeimanono (Moe) Fouvaa – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 12.00 – 12.20
Bio:
Papaaliitele Dr. Moeimanono Fouvaa is a Samoan. He was born and raised in the island prior to the undertaken of his studies abroad. He has completed his Ph.D in Education at the University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand in 2012. He took up a contract position of a Research Manager at the National University of Samoa in Apia Samoa after completing his Doctoral Studies. Prior to that, he was teaching in all sectors of Education in Samoa, New Zealand and in Australia. He presented and published some of his work internationally. Dr. Fouvaa is now working as a CEO at the Lifetime International Training College in Brisbane Australia.
Abstract:
My Identity – My genealogy - Who am I?
I will be talking about the importance of Language and this case is that of ‘Samoan Language and its importance.’ This includes the use/essence of it in various gatherings in the context of the faaSamoa (Samoan way). This includes everyday language and respectful language or chiefly language
Nicholas Garnier – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 12.00 – 12.20
Bio:
Nicolas Garnier is an anthropologist who spent most of his adult life in Papua New Guinea before moving back to France in 2016. Prior his current position, he was the dean of Research and post-graduate studies at the University of Papua New Guinea and Interim Chairman of the board of the National Cultural Commission (PNG). In PNG, he developed the first academic program devoted to cultural heritage and preservation.
Abstract:
Alternative views on WWII: Solos drawings of Japanese and Americans during WWII.
In Buka (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea), a group of men made a series of drawings of battles and war ships during WWII. These documents are, so far, the only visual testimonies relating these events made by Pacific Islanders. This paper offers various interpretation about these documents and tries to understand what could have been their value from the point of view of those who made them and those who collected them.
Areta Wilkinson – Parallel Session
Wednesday 27th March: 12.00 – 12.30
Bio: Dr Areta Wilkinson (Ngāi Tahu) New Zealand artist of 27 years has investigated the intersection of applied art as a form of knowldge informed by Ngāi Tahu whakapapa and perspectives. She was Visiting Fellow of the MAA, Cambridge UK 2017, and awarded the Creative New Zealand Craft Object Fellowship 2015.
Abstract: Paemanu Nohoaka Toi: Ngāi Tahu Artists in Residence made customary camp at CoCA gallery, Christchurch
Ngāi Tahu contemporary artists under the collective identity of Paemanu, made camp in a Christchurch art gallery in 2017. Wilkinson shares an exhibition project centred on a repatriated rock art fragment that gave spiritual nourishment to the groups evolving collaborative art practice. This knowledge later transfers to her APT9 artwork.