THE FOURTH NATIONAL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES
STRAIT ISLANDER VISUAL ARTS CONFERENCE

Masonic Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5-7 March 2002

CONFERENCE THEMES

Intellectual and cultural property issues

• Protecting heritage: export permissions
• Who owns copyright? Issues of sale, resale and reproduction rights and artist payments
• Appropriation of Indigenous art

On-the-ground issues for artists: Artists talk about their practice

• Urban, regional and remote community Indigenous arts
• Torres Strait Islander artists
• Young artists and emerging artists
• Art in community life
• Indigenous culture and new information technologies/ multimedia

Representation, curatorial practice and arts administration

• Gallery policies and curatorial issues
• Public art - getting Indigenous arts into public spaces
• The Roles of art/craft advisers
• Art as a basis for ecological, community and cultural development
• Community art and cultural centre issues

Commercial issues; funding and marketing

• Local and international marketing
• Returns to artists
• GST and dealing with the tax office
• Funding bodies and applications