PAA 10th International Symposium Detailed Schedule

PAA's 10th International Symposium Detailed Schedule
August 9-11, 2010
Rarotonga, Cook Islands

NOTE VENUE CHANGE: All conference presentations will take place at the Crown Beach Resort.

To see speaker schedules for each day, please click on the links below:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

To see venue schedules for each day, please click on the links below:
Events/Functions Centre: Day 1
Evening Events: Day 1
Oceans Venue: Day 2
Events/Functions Centre: Day 2
Evening Events: Day 2
Oceans Venue: Day 3
Events/Functions Centre: Day 3
Evening Events: Day 3

Day 1 – Monday, August 9                                                                                                    
Events/Functions Centre: Day 1

8:00–9:30am
Registration

9:30–10:00am
Welcome/ Turou: Rev. Tevai Matapo, Chair, University of the South Pacific, Cook Islands Campus
Opening prayer (Pure) and Murienua Tapere Choir

10:00am
Kia orana, Welcome from the Government of the Cook Islands

10:05am
Welcome: Te Tika Mataiapo Dorice Reid, President of the Koutu Nui

10:15am
PAA President Welcome: Michael Gunn

10:30am
Keynote Address 1: Michele Hippolite, Acting/CEO, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

11:00am
Keynote Adress 2: Jean-Marc Pambrun, Directeur, Le Musée de Tahiti et ses îles

11:30am
Prayer (Pure kai) and lunch at the Beach Marquee immediately following.

SESSION 1: OBJECTS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN POLYNESIA

Group 1: 5 presentations
Chair: Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Reserve Chair: Michaela Appel)

1:00–1:15pm
Grace Hutton: Cook Islands collection at Te Papa Tongarewa

1:20–1:35pm
Jill Hasell: "Missionary Enterprises" and Modern Presentations of Cook Islands Culture

1:40–1:55pm
Ian Wards: The Collecting of HD Skinner: A Cook Islands Case Study

2:00–2:15pm
Michaela Appel: Female Figures from Aitutaki: Traces of Genealogy and Descent

2:20–2:35pm (Keynote Address 3)
Jonathan Mane-Wheoki: Contemporary Urban Pacific Art in Aotearoa: A Whakapapa

2:40–3:00pm BREAK

Group 2 (Textiles): 6 presentations
Chair: Adrienne Kaeppler (Reserve Chair: Hilary Scothorn-Tohi)

3:00–3:10pm
Teri Sowell: Remembering Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk (1939-2002)

3:15–3:30pm
Hilary Scothorn-Tohi: Uncovering the Past: A Report on Recent Research with Cook Islands Tapa

3:35–3:50pm
Rhys Richards: Locating and Provenancing Austral Island Tapa

3:55–4:10pm
Adrienne Kaeppler: Dangerous Liaisons: Explorers, Missionaries, and Barkcloth Makers

4:15–4:30pm
Phyllis Herda: The Creation of a New Tradition: Women's Quilting in the Cook Islands

4:35–4:50pm
Jane Horan: Cook Islands Tivaivai and the Ritual Economy in Auckland, New Zealand

4:50–5:00pm BREAK

Group 3: 3 presentations
Chair: Philippe Peltier (Reserve Chair: Karen Jacobs)

5:00–5:15pm
Karen Jacobs: The Cartography of Collecting: Mapping the George Bennet Collection Assembled in Central Polynesia (1821-1824)

5:20–5:35pm
Philippe Peltier: Images from Mangareva

5:40–5:55pm
Rhys Richards: The Stutchbury Bird

Evening Events: Day 1

6:20pm
Buses will depart the Crown Beach Resort

7:00pm
"Wrapping the Cook Islands: Tivaivai"
Akaoa Hall; Dress: Pacific Style

8:00pm
Buses will depart Akaoa Hall

8:15pm
"In the House of My Heart" Nanette Lela'ulu
Art Studio; Dress: Pacific Style

9:30pm
Buses will leave the Art Studio for town

Day 2 – Tuesday, August 10                                                                                                    
Oceans Venue: Day 2

SESSION 3: CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC ART AND ARTISTS

Group 1: 5 presentations
Chair: Erik Kjellgren (Reserve Chair: Ron Brownson)

8:30–8:45am
Ron Brownson: "Are you looking at me?": The Social Media Art of Janet Lilo

8:50–9:05am
Eric Kjellgren: Ngarrgoorroon Man: The Life and Art of Hector Jandany (ca. 1927-2006)

9:10–9:25am
Karen Stevenson: Abstraction in the Art of Filipe Tohi

9:30–9:45am
CANCELED Jean-Claude Toure: "Practice as a contemporary ni-Vanuatu artist based in Port Vila"

9:50–10:05am
Pétélo Tuilalo: Collection/Robes Mission: Un Art de la Rue?

10:05–10:30am BREAK

Group 2: 4 presentations
Chair: Pamela Zeplin (Reserve Chair: Dan Taulapapa McMullin)

10:30–10:45am
Jenny Fraser: The Other APT

10:50–11:05am
Lingikoni Vaka’uta: Issues and Challenges of Island Based Artists: Lingikoni Vaka'uta

11:10–11:25am
Pamela Zeplin: The Pacific in the 'Big Island': Oceanic Waves in Australia

11:30–11:45am
Dan Taulapapa McMullin: The Myth of the Contemporary and the Myth of the Traditional

11:50am–2:05pm Lunch

CRAFT EXHIBITION during lunch hours

1:15–2:00 Book Launch. For more information, please click here.

Group 3: 5 presentations
Chair: Christina Hellmich

2:10–2:25pm
Pamela Rosi: Innovations in PNG Bilum-Making: The Fiber Art of Cathy Kata

2:30–2:45pm
Susan Cochrane: Bilum Morphs from Street Market to Haute Couture

2:50–3:05pm
Rebecca Hossack and Elaine Monds: Further Understanding of Contemporary Pacific Art through Institutional Collaboration and Cross Cultural Exchange

3:10–3:25pm
Christina Hellmich: Critical Acclaim: Measuring the impact and success of Contemporary New Guinea Art in the U.S.A.

3:30–3:45pm
Marilyn Kohlhase: Okaioceanikart: The World's Only Pan Pacific Gallery

3:45–4:00pm BREAK

Group 4: 3 presentations
Chair: Fono McCarthy (Reserve Chair: Rosana Raymond)

4:00–4:15pm
Fono McCarthy: The Development of Le Gafa: An Ongoing Dialogue Between the Contemporary and the Customary

4:20–4:35pm
Rosanna Raymond: ConVAsations: Sharing Hinemihi

4:40–4:55pm
Kolokesa Uafā Māhina-Tuai, Sēmisi Fetokai Potauaine, and Hūfanga Dr. 'Okusitino Māhina: 'Aatí mo e Koloa Tukufakaholó: A Tā-Vā (Time-Space) Theory of Art and Cultural Heritage

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Events/Functions Centre: Day 2

SESSION 5: REPRESENTING PACIFIC ART AND CULTURES

Group 1: 4 presentations
Chairs: Jenny Newell and Tobias Sperlich

8:40–8:50am
Tobias Sperlich and Jenny Newell: Introduction

8:50–9:05am
Crispin Howarth: Out of Focus: The History of the NGA Pacific Art Collection

9:10–9:25am
Kylie Moloney: Archives in the Pacific Art Context

9:30–9:45am
Jenny Newell: Looking for Tahiti: Museum Collections, Representations, and Silences

9:45–10:05am BREAK

Group 2: 4 presentations
Chair: Barry Craig (Reserve Chair: Caroly Mayer)

10:10–10:25am
Barry Craig: The Upper Sepik-Central New Guinea Project – a Scientific Approach to Ethnographic Collections

10:30–10:45am
Carol E. Mayer: "We Gather to Reconcile - No Longer Captives of the Past"

10:50–11:05am
Dion Peita: Community Engagement and Access from a Kaitiakitanga Perspective: What is Kaitiakitanga?

11:10–11:25am
Jennifer Wagelie: Where Have all the Manikins Gone?

11:25am–1:25pm Lunch

CRAFT EXHIBITION during lunch hours

Group 3: 4 presentations
Chair: Carol Ivory (Reserve Chair: Anne Allen)

1:30–1:45
Patricia Wallace: The Riddle of the Raranga Rain-Capes (Working Title: A Simple Raranga Rain-Cape Making a Change in Direction)

1:50–2:05pm
Bethany Matai Edmunds: He Kakahu Maori: Maori Cloaks in American Museums; Conservation, Storage and Display

2:10–2:25pm
Carol Ivory: Vaekehu: Illustrating the Life and Times of a Nineteenth Century Marquesan 'Queen'

2:30–2:45pm
Anne E. Guernsey Allen: Who Speaks for Samoa? Some Reflections by a Palagi Teacher of Pacific Art and Culture in the American Midwest

2:45–3:00pm BREAK

Group 4: 3 presentations
Chair: Wonu Veys (Reserve Chair: Tobias Sperlich)

3:00–3:15pm
Tobias Sperlich: Oceania in Germany: Between Cliché and Education

3:20–3:35pm
Hilke Thode-Arora: Exchanging Gifts with Royals and Pleasing Paying Audiences: A Samoan High Chief's Trip to Germany with an Ethnic Show, and the Resulting Collections in Germany

3:40–3:55pm
Fanny Wonu Veys: Reinforcing Connections Between New Zealand and the Netherlands: A waka and an Exhibition in Leiden

Evening Events: Day 2

5:00pm and 5:50pm Buses will leave Crown Beach Resort

6:30pm Launch of Special Pacific Issue: Art Monthly Australia
BCA Gallery, Taputapuatea

7:00pm Janet Lilo, TOP16 (Curated by Ron Brownson)
BCA Gallery, Taputapuatea

8:15pm Buses leave BCA Gallery for drop-offs around the island

Day 3 – Wednesday, August 11                                                                                                                  
Oceans Venue: Day 3

SESSION 2: PACIFIC ART AND SPIRITUALITY

Group 1: 4 presentations
Chair: Michael Gunn (Reserve Chair: Steven Hooper)

8:30–8:45am
Steven Hooper: Whale Ivory, Chiefs, Gods, and Respect in Fiji

8:50–9:05am
Charmaine 'Ilaiu: Bure: Spiritual Romance

9:10–9:25am
Michael Gunn: The Elusive Nature of Atua (and their relationship to objects)

9:30–9:45am
Jacqui Durrant: Rarotongan Staff Gods

9:45–10:00am BREAK

SESSION 6: PRESENTING OBJECT RESEARCH

Group 1: 3 presentations
Chair: Harry Beran

10:00–10:15am
Apolonia Tamata: The Breastplate of Chiefs

10:20–10:35am
Harry Beran: Prehistoric carved conus shells of Eastern New Guinea

10:40–10:55am
Deborah Waite: Parrying Clubs from the Southeast Solomon Islands: Definition through Ritualization and Visual/Cultural Translation

11:00am–1:15pm Lunch

ARTIST PANELS

1:15pm
Auckland University Art History: Maori and Pacific Graduate Panel
Convenor: Caroline Vercoe, Auckland University

Panel Members:
Kelly Ana Morey (PhD candidate): From Samuel Carnell to my Uncle Puke's front room: The Relationship Between Maori and Photography
Nina Tonga (PhD candidate): Ethnic Avatars: The Internet as an Artistic Medium
Tyla Vaeau (BA (Hons) candidate): Samoan Tatau: Changing Contexts/Migrating Meanings
Chloe Weavers (MA candidate): Collaborative and Participatory Art Making in a Contemporary Pacific Context

1:45pm
Auckland University of Technology: Masters in Art and Design Panel (Cultural Representations: Considering Master of Art & Design Research Projects in the Cook Islands)
Convenor: Dale Fitchett, Strand Leader, MA&D Online Learning; Senior Lecturer, Department of Postgraduate Studies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Panel Members:
Krick Barraud (MA&D graduand): Sense of Place
Andrea Eimke (MA&D graduand): [Liminal Space] An Investigation of Material and Immaterial Boundaries and their Space Between
Kay George (MA&D graduand): Evolving Patterns of Identity: A Visual Response to Observations of Cook Islands’ Women and Their Adornment
Joan Gragg (MA&D graduand): Seeing the Funny Side: Focusing on Cook Islands Humour in the Experience of the Religious Pageant Nuku
Eruera Te Whiti Nia (MA&D graduand): Are Korero – A Sculptural Project for Are Korero within Makeanui’s Paepae Ariki, Taputapuatea, Rarotonga
Loretta Reynolds (MA&D graduand): Through the Eyes of Tangaroa: A Voyage in Visual Form

2:15pm BREAK

2:30pm
Culture and Education – the Council of Pacific Arts Strategy 2010-2015

Panel Members:
Elise Huffer, Human Development Adviser Culture (SPC)
Tarisi Vunidilo, Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Museum
Sonny Williams, Secretary of Culture, Cook Islands
Pamela Takiora Ingram

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Events/Functions Centre: Day 3

SESSION 4: THE EMERGING ROLE OF MUSEUM WEBSITES AND OTHER WEB ENTITIES

Group 1: 4 presentations
Chair: Anita Herle (Reserve Chair: Vicky Barnecutt)

8:30–8:45am
Peter Eklund, A. Lawson, T. Wray, P. Goodall, and M. Van Olffren: The Virtual Museum of the Pacific

8:50–9:05am
Vicky Barnecutt and Michael Gunn: A Database of Art Objects from New Ireland

9:10–9:25am
Marion Cadora and Patrick Karabuspalau Kaiku: (Re)presenting Art, Culture, and Identity of Papua New Guinea: The New Era of Interactive Blogging

9:30–9:45am
Anita Herle: John Layard, long Malakula 1914-1915: The Potency of Photographic Images

9:45–10:00am BREAK

Group 2 (Virtual Repatriation): 4 presentations
Chair: Amiria Salmond (Reserve Chair: Karen Nero)

10:00–10:15am
Karen L. Nero: Reconnecting: Accessing and Communicating Knowledge Held in Collections in Overseas Museums and Archives

10:20–10:35am
Amiria Salmond, Carl Hogsden, Maia Jessop, and Billie Lythberg (Artifacts of Encounter Project): Digital Taonga and 'Virtual' Repatriation

10:40–10:55am
Hera (Sarah) Ngata-Gibson representing Toi Hauiti: Te Ngaio-tū-ki-Rarotonga

11:00–11:15am
Stéphanie Lelerc-Caffarel: Exchange and Circulation Instead of Repatriation: Fiji Online Database Project

11:15am–1:15pm LUNCH

11:45–1:15pm
PAA Executive Committee Meeting

SESSION 3: CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC ART AND ARTISTS

Group 5: 5 presentations
Chair: Emmanuel Kasaherou
1:15–1:30pm
Susan Cochrane: The Contemporary Austronesian Art Project

1:35–1:50pm
Emmanuel Kasarherou: The Contemporary Austronesian Art Project

1:55–2:10pm
Kulele Ruladen: Indigenous Artist's Perpsective

2:15–2:30pm
Tseng Mei-chen: Observation and Thinking: After Art Administration Intervention in Taiwan Indigenous Contemporary Art

2:35–2:50pm
Yuh-Yao Wan: Exhibiting Art: Contemporary Indigenous Art in Formosa Taiwan

2:50–3:05pm BREAK

PIMA SESSION: PANEL ON PACIFIC MUSEUMS

3:10–3:25pm
Tarisi Vunidilo presenting on behalf of Kiblas Soaladaob: Pacific Museums: The Role of Community and Representation

3:30–3:45pm
Tarisi Vunidilo: Duavata: Unity-the Past, Present, and Future of PIMA: Strengthening Ties between Pacific Museums and Sharing Our Pacific Stories-A Pacific Perspectives

3:45–4:00pm BREAK

4:00–5:30pm General Meeting

Evening Events: Day 3

6:30pm Conference Dinner
Crown Beach Resort; Dress: Pacific Style

9:15pm and 9:45pm Buses will depart Crown Beach Resort for town and then a circuit of the island

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