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In this talk, Dr Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling) will share how she has been acknowledging the Chinese histories of geographic locations in Australia and inserting them into their associated cultural landscapes. These endeavours will be examined across the spheres of gallery exhibitions, participatory art, and public art. She will share the inspiration behind her artworks and the processes she employs to produce them. Her techniques will be examined in both historical and contemporary context, ranging from paper effigies to cast bronze. This talk is intended to foster dialogue about the role art can play in historically instating communities. The lecture may be particularly suited to artists aspiring to make public art or produce content for museums.
Traditionally a curator is seen as a keeper of a museum or a collection and an organiser of an exhibition. With a new definition being adopted by the International Council of Museums in 2022, in which a museum is expected to be in service of a broader society and its audience with diverse cultural and social political backgrounds, a curator in a public museum is required to re-evaluate his/her/their role to meet this new challenge and opportunity. A curator is one active member of a museum team whose goal is to offer varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing through exhibition and public engagement programs which reflect the broader communities’ interests.
The country that we call “China” is built on the foundation of a vast empire close to the size of Europe that spans radically different climatic and environmental zones. Populations in these different zones developed distinctive languages, customs, cuisines, and ethnic identities. Over the millennia, these different ethnic zones largely retained their own unique identities. Archaeological discoveries in the late twentieth century have demonstrated that the development of China was not unidirectional as once thought but multiregional. There were significant civilisations to the south and west of the Chinese heartland that developed earlier than the first known dynastic states based near the Yellow River.