PAA – 9th International Symposium Schedule
Thursday 5 July 2007
9 – 10am: Registration and Welcome Breakfast
10 – 11am: Opening Ceremony
Greetings:
Jacques Friedmann, Honorary President, Musée du quai Branly
Jean-Pierre Mohen, Director of the Heritage and Collection Department, Musée du quai Branly
Anne-Christine Taylor, Director of Research and Education Department, Musée du quai Branly
Welcome:
Carol Ivory, President, Pacific Arts Association
Philippe Peltier, Head, Department of the Oceania Collections, Musée du quai Branly
11 – 11:45am: Keynote Speaker: Marie-Claude Tjibaou, President of the Board of directors, Agence de Développement de la Culture Kanak (ADCK – Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Nouméa, New Caledonia)
Noon – 12:30pm: Performance by Shigeyuki Kihara (Samoan artist), Taualuga: the Last Dance
12:30 – 2:30pm: Lunch break
Session 1 – History of collections (objects, archives and photographs) and their display – Part 1
2:30 – 3pm: Jill Hasell, From 18th century Otaheite to 21st century London: Exhibiting the Pacific at the British Museum
3 – 3:30pm: Robert J. Foster, Native Curios, National Patrimony, Primitive Art: Three Moments in the Biography of the P. G. Black Collection
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Anne E. Guernsey Allen, Selling the Pacific: The Exhibition of Oceanic Culture at the Chicago World’s Columbian Exhibition
4:30 – 5pm: Susan Cochrane, Ancestry of a Collection
Session 2 – Collaborative challenges for cultural leaders, artists, researchers and curators
2:30 – 3pm: Lindy Joubert, The UNESCO Observatory for Pacific Arts: Culture and Collaborations
3 – 3:30pm: Natasha Beckman, "Serpents et échelles" (snakes and ladders): a case study of "L'Art contemporain de Nouvelle-Calédonie"
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Patricia Wallace, A Maori 'cloak button' or something else? One example of collaborative challenge for ethnologist, researcher, curator et al.
Exchange between artists within the Pacific and elsewhere
4:30 – 5pm: Elaine Monds and Carol E. Mayer, Killerwhale and Crocodile: an exchange between a Coast Salish artist from Canada and a Iatmul artist from Papua New Guinea
5 – 6:30pm: New Ireland: Arts of the South Pacific. Visit of the exhibition with Philippe Peltier and Michael Gunn
6:30 – 8pm: Jacques Kerchache Room: Pacific Contemporary Art. Artists’ talk (Brett Graham, Fonofale McCarthy and Filipe Tohi)
8pm: Welcome reception
Friday 6 July 2007
8:30 – 9am: Registration – Breakfast
Session 1 – History of collections (objects, archives and photographs) and their display – Part 2
9 – 9:30am: Marcus Schindlbeck, Authenticity, Representation and the Shadows of European Fantasy
9:30 – 10am: Diane Losche, The Construction of Culture Areas in the Margaret Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History, New York
10 – 10:30am: Barbara Wavell, Historic context in the mid 20th century: selection of Micronesian objects
10:30 – 11am: Break
11 – 11:30am: Jennifer Wagelie, “Yours obediently, sincerely, and faithfully”: The Letters of William O. Oldman to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1908-1939)
11:30 – 11:45am: Lucie Carreau, Towards a re-evaluation of private collectors: Harry Beasley's collection of Pacific artefacts (1895-1939) and its contribution to 20th century museums
Session 2 – The role of architecture and design in display
9 – 9:30pm: Molly Hennen Huber, A curator’s choices: The display of Pacific art at an encyclopedic museum
9:30 – 10am: Barry Craig, The Pacific Cultures Gallery at the South Australian Museum
What is the place of contemporary art in museum acquisitions and displays
10 - 10:30am: Catherine de Lorenzo and Deborah Van der Plaat, Modernity, photography and the contemporary museum
10:30 – 11am: Break
11 – 11:30am: Kees van den Meiracker, Aboriginal art from the suburbs from Australia. Acquisition and exhibition policy in the Wereldmuseum Rottedam, The Netherlands
11:30 – 11:45am: Geraldine Le Roux, L’Art du grand partage
11:45 – noon: Louise Ryan, Patterns of Exclusion: Displaying the Indigenous Art of Australia
Noon – 12:15pm: Jacqueline Charles-Rault, Reuniting Two Worlds: “He Tautoko” by Lisa Reihana (2006)
12:15 – 2:30pm: Lunch break
Session 1 – History of collections (objects, archives and photographs) and their display
2:30 – 3pm: Roger Neich, Displaying Tongan goddesses in parallel universes of meaning and significance
3 – 3:30pm: David Van Duuren, ‘Curiosities from the Pacific Ocean’: thirteen objects from the Antoine Bruny d’Entrecasteaux expedition (1791-1794) rediscovered in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Grant McCall, Rapanui (Easter Island) Souvenir Trade
4:30 – 5pm: Noel Mc Guigan, Why Decorating a Yam is Tambaran? (Film)
Session 2 – Incorporation of research results into publicly-accessible displays in Museums and Cultural Centres
2:30 – 3pm: Carol E. Mayer, A Partnership of Peoples: the role of community collaboration
3 – 3:30pm: Michael Gunn, Art of New Ireland – 50 tours through an exhibition
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Deborah Waite, Barava plaques, serenbule and shell rings in Western Solomon Islands: a Dialectic of Objects, Material and Process as Manifested in Museum Exhibitions
4:30 – 5pm: Karen K. Kosasa, Fetishizing the Visual: Raising Ethical and Pedagogical Concerns from Honolulu to New York and Paris
5:15 – 6:15pm: PAA General Meeting
6 – 9pm: The MEYER Gallery invites the PAA members & guests for a cocktail (17, Rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris / 6th arrondissement) www.galerie-meyer-oceanic-art.com
Saturday 7 July 2007
8:30 – 9am: Registration - Breakfast
Session 1 – The role of source communities and their 'voices' in displays of Pacific art
9 – 9:30am: Harry Beran and Chief John Kasaipwalova and Paramount Chief Pulayasi, The iconography of the gable boards of the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea
9:30 – 10am: Roberta Colombo-Dougoud, The storyboards from Kambot (Papua New Guinea): only simple souvenirs for tourists?
10 – 10:30am: Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, Te Puna: Maori art from Tai Tokerau Northland
10:30 – 11am: Break
11 – 11:30am: Steven Hooper, Showing Respect? Exhibiting Polynesian encounters in Europe
11:30 – noon: Amiria Salmond and Rosanna Raymond, “Pasifika Styles”: The Making of an Exhibition
Noon – 12:30pm: Giles Peterson, From Niu to NEW - “Urban Pacific”, the exhibition
12:30 – 2:30pm: Lunch break
Session 2 – What is the relationship between anthropological, art-historical and artistic approaches to the interpretation and display of Pacific Art?
9 – 9:30am: Christian Coiffier, Bipolar figures. Being and its reflection in Papua art in the 20th Century
9:30 – 10am: Christian Kaufmann, Is painting in the representation of Sepik art underestimated?
10 – 10:30am: Anita Herle and Haidy Geismar, Moving Images: Photography and Fieldwork on Malakula (Vanuatu)
10:30 – 11am: Break
11 – 11:30am: Hilke Thode-Arora, Men’s Art and Women’s Handicraft? On the Collections from Niue in European, American and Pacific Museums
11:30 – 11:45am: Ragnhild Scheifes, Untie the dove’s cord, when it is free it sings. Fara - dancing and singing in Rotuma
11:45 – noon: Charmaine Marie ‘Ilaiu, Tongan women’s koloa (fine mats, kiekie and tapa cloth): from architectural elements to displayed objects
Noon – 12:30pm: Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, The painting process of an Abelam cult house facade, Papua-New Guinea (Film)
12:30 – 2:30pm: Lunch break
Session 1 – Role of the contemporary Pacific (or non-Pacific) artists in display of historical and/or contemporary material
2:30 – 3pm: Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Mana and Tapu in Contemporary Oceania Art: the diffusion of narrative and the politics of names
3 – 3:30pm: Fonofale McCarthy, The Development of “Le Gafa”: An ongoing dialogue between the Contemporary and the Customary
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Pamela Rosi, Deploying Papua New Guinea artists as “cultural ambassadors” in the global promotion of contemporary PNG art: evaluating Larry Santana’s visits to the USA
4:30 – 5pm: Carol S. Ivory, Contemporary Artists and Markets in Te Henua ‘Enana / Te Fenua ‘Enata (the Marquesas Islands): Challenges and Choices
Session 2 – What is the relationship between anthropological, art-historical and artistic approaches to the interpretation and display of Pacific art?
2:30 – 3pm: Yuh Yao Wan, Living Art in Tradition: Formosa Indigenous Art
3 – 3:30pm: Max Quanchi, The New Guinea portfolio of Robert Emerson Curtis, War Artist: display, art, ethnography and popular anthropology
3:30 – 4pm: Break
4 – 4:30pm: Pauline van der Zee, From ‘artefact’ to ‘art by appropriation’: Carvings of Asmat and Kamoro of west New Guinea
4:30 – 4:45pm: Vicky Barnecutt, Old Objects, New Look: Exploring the use of European materials in early New Ireland collections
4:45 – 5pm: Karamia Muller, The Fijian Spirit House: the Bure Kalou
5:15 – 6:15pm: Artists Panel
8pm: Closing reception