壹、活動主題 澳洲原民藝術家交流講座 貳、活動時間與地點 時間：112年6月22日 下午14時至16時 地點：凱達格蘭文化館4樓多功能會議室 參、辦理單位 臺北市政府原住民族事務委員會 國立臺灣史前文化博物館 肆、活動簡介 國立臺灣史前文化博物館(下稱史前館)將於今(112)年6月邀請兩位澳洲原民藝術家(Vernon Ah Kee、Dr. Mandy Quadrio)來台交流，交流內容包括兩位藝術家之藝術計畫展演、臺灣原民藝術家交流以及參訪臺灣原住民族相關博物館、美術館及地方文化館，前經與史前館之協調，本館為參訪交流地點之一，並預計於參訪行程中辦理交流講座，探討原住民藝術家如何透過作品詮釋表達社會議題的關注，再現原住民族文化和力量。 TWO AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ARTISTS VISITING TAIWAN JUNE 2023 INFORMATION In June 2023, two of Australia’s leading contemporary Aboriginal artists, Dr. Vernon Ah Kee and Dr. Mandy Quadrio will be visiting Taiwan as part of an Australia-Taiwan exchange. The exchange is organised by Dr Sophie McIntyre (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) and Dr Fang Chun-wei (National Prehistory Museum, Taiwan). This is Stage 2 of an ongoing Australia-Taiwan exchange project, which brings together (many for the first time) Australian and Taiwan First Nations contemporary artists to meet, share ideas and develop connections. This project has been supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Spotlight programme, as well as QUT and NPM. Stage 1 of this project, entitled Grounded in Place: Dialogues between First Nations Artists from Australia, Taiwan, and Aotearoa, included an international online symposium held in 2021 (https://research.qut.edu.au/cpfsi/events/grounded-in-place-symposium/). Following this symposium revised papers from the symposium were published in a special edition of Pacific Arts (e-scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles). This journal was guest edited by Sophie McIntyre, Fang Chun-wei and Zara Stanhope and included essays by Manila-based art historian and curator, Patrick Flores, and New Zealand curator, Megan Tamati-Quennell. (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73k4s2c9). During their visit to Taiwan in June 2023, both artists will deliver a series of presentations about their art practices, meet local and Indigenous artists, and visit communities, museums and galleries in Taipei and southern and central Taiwan. They are interested in meeting, sharing ideas and forging connections with local artists in Taiwan. Information about these two artists is attached. If you have any queries about these artists and their visit to Taiwan, please contact Sophie McIntyre: sophie.mcintyre@qut.edu.au. [Artists] VERNON AH KEE Born 1967 in Innisfail, North Queensland, Australia. Lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr people. “Vernon Ah Kee’s conceptual text pieces, videos, photographs, and drawings form a critique of Australian culture from the perspective of the Aboriginal experience of contemporary life. Ah Kee’s works respond to the history of the romantic and exoticised portraiture of ‘primitives’, and effectively reposition the Aboriginal in Australia from an ‘othered thing’, anchored in museum and scientific records to a contemporary people inhabiting real and current spaces and time.” Ah Kee’s work has been featured in a number of significant national and international exhibitions, including ‘Revolutions: Forms that turn’, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008); ‘Once Removed’, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2009); ‘Ideas of Barack’, National Gallery of Victoria (2011); ‘unDisclosed’: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial’, National Gallery of Australia (2012); ‘My Country: I Still Call Australia Home’, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (2013); and ‘Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art’, National Gallery of Canada (2013). In 2015, Ah Kee was invited by curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev to present a new body of work as part of ‘SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms’, the 14th Istanbul Biennial and participated in a series of significant public programs as part of the opening weekend of the exhibition. Further Information: https://milanigallery.com.au/artists/vernon-ah-kee/ https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/artists/vernon-ah-kee/ https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/vernon-ah-kee-elegant-drawings-australia/ https://nga.gov.au/on-demand/this-place-artist-series-vernon-ah-kee/ https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/vernon-ah-kee-investigating-ideas-of-barak/ [Artist] MANDY QUADRIO Dr. Mandy Quadrio is a Pairabeenee, Trawlwoolway, woman connected to her maternal ancestral Countries of Tebrakunna, north-east Trouwunna / Tasmania, and the Oyster Bay Nation of eastern Trouwunna / Tasmania. She is also of Anglo-Irish heritage. Currently based in Meanjin / Brisbane, her artistic practice encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media. Through her practice Quadrio works to unfix racist categorisations, historic denials and imposed invisibility in relation to Aboriginal identity. Driven by materiality she embraces the industrially-produced material of steel wool where she manipulates abrasive steely fibres in order to reclaim and foreground culture through scouring materials that have traditionally been used to scrub things away. Combined with organic cultural objects such as ocean-derived bull kelp, ochre and natural fibres, she interweaves complex dialogues to forge narratives that anchor and solidify contemporary Palawa expression. Both her work and process reference notions of erasure and presence in relation to socio-political realities around contested Australian, colonial histories. Offering new visual dialogues, the re-configuration of natural and pre-fabricated materials, assembled into sculptures and installations constitute a disruption to historic and present-day power relations surrounding Tasmanian Aboriginality. Quadrio’s work has featured in numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas including: Objects of Culture and Science, Australia Council for the Arts, Tasmania and Sweden (2023); Look out! Colonialism, Schmick Contemporary, Sydney (2023); Australian First Nations Collaboration: Terra Incognita: Inclusiveness is a good way, San Teonisto Church, Treviso, Italy (2022); Strike at the foundation, Rite of Passage exhibition, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane (2020). She has also won numerous awards and undertaken artist residencies in Sweden, Italy and across Australia. Further information: https://www.mandyquadrio.com.au/about/ https://www.ima.org.au/exhibitions/mandy-quadrio-the-country-within/ https://kuiperprojects.org/quadrio.html https://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/Whats-on/Art-Gallery-at-Royal-Park/Royal-Park-Art-Gallery-weve-changed/Weve-Changed-Exhibition-highlights