Wednesday, 10 October 2018

ARLIS/ANZ 2018 Conference Day 2 morning

Day 2 of the conference took place at the National Gallery of Australia, as Simon Underschultz noted below: I think everyone needed a coffee/tea to get started - in the foreground of the picture above, you can see Jin Whittington of the Art Gallery of South Australia talking to Alan Yu of M Plus Contemporary (Hong Kong), and the lady with her back to the photo is Megan Lotts of Rutgers University Libraries - a truly international group of librarians. Katie was followed by Helen Ennis, who gave keynote address on artists' personal archives and unofficial documents. Following morning tea, Caroline McBride of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki discussed art archives. In the afternoon session, Tim Jones of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū also spoke and I loved that they both commenced with traditional greetings in te reo Māori. Personally, I love it and feel that Australia could learn from New Zealand and how they have embraced indigenous culture. Although we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land and include an indigenous elder welcoming everyone to country, I feel we could - and should - be doing much more to incorporate indigenous culture, knowledge and understanding into everyday activities. It might help us to close the gap faster and more effectively if we did. Simon Underschultz was up next, showing off some of the highlights of the NGA's collection. Anne followed this tweet with one correcting the spelling of Morten's surname. Eric Riddler was next, except that he metamorphosed into Stephen Miller because he had lost his voice. And then it was my turn too mispell someone's name. And on the high note of Eric's presentation, we broke for lunch.
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