​Artists draw on historical collections in the creation of new work. In this series of online conversations artists, collection curators and historians come together to discuss cultural agency, the politics of display, colonial legacies, and generative pathways to repair.


COLLECTIONS / OBJECTS /
CULTURAL AGENCY: CONVERSATIONS ON WORKING WITH THE ARCHIVE

 

James Nguyen & Victoria Pham with Stephen Zagala (Research Fellow, World Cultures, South Australian Museum).



Taloi Havini with Professor Nicholas Thomas (Director, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge).

 

James Tylor with Dr Frances Wyld (Lecturer, Aboriginal Studies, UniSA)

 

DISCUSSION /

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the online Q&A with Samstag Curator Gillian Brown, Taloi Havini, James Nguyen, James Tylor, Dr Frances Wyld and Stephen Zagala. We will make the discsussion available to watch/listen in the coming days.

 

Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, acknowledges the Kaurna people as traditional custodians of the land upon which the Museum stands.