Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report 2006-07

appendixes / QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY ANNUAL REPORT 06–07 69 OVERSEAS TRAVEL Name of Officer and Position Destination Reason for Travel Agency Cost $ $* Doug Hall United States, To build and develop the Gallery's $16 330 NIL Director Japan professional networks and discuss future exhibitions; to identify and research Collection development opportunities. Bruce McLean Italy, To attend the 2007 Venice Biennale, $3 876 (E) $5 990 Associate Curator, France, as one of four Indigenous curators Indigenous Australian Art Austria, selected to participate in the Australia Germany Council's Indigenous Curators Initiative; to visit art institutions featuring Indigenous Australian artists in Paris, Vienna and Kassel; to represent the Gallery at Documenta 12 in Kassel, an important international exhibition of contemporary art. Amanda Pagliarino China To perform condition assessments on $5 366 NIL Acting Head of Conservation 20 Asian art works on loan to the Queensland Art Gallery from the Shanghai Museum; to ensure that the art works were appropriately packed, sealed and submitted to customs in line with international museum best- practice guidelines. Suhanya Raffel United States To meet with the Director of the Andy $9 833 NIL Head of Asian, Pacific and Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to finalise International Art loan arrangements for the 'Andy Warhol' exhibition; to meet with Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M Sackler Gallery staff to consolidate the Gallery's ongoing exchange program; to attend Asia Week in New York, an annual program of arts events. Kathryn Weir Japan To attend the 63rd International NIL $3 296 Head of Cinema Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Congress in Tokyo, focusing on recent research and significant issues in film preservation and presentation; to develop professional networks with international film colleagues to facilitate the exchange of information and the loan of film prints from film archives around the world for the Gallery's programs. Kathryn Weir Italy, To attend several key visual art events $8 750 (E) $3 000 Head of Cinema Switzerland, central to the exhibition and acquisition Germany of contemporary art and film, including: the 2007 Venice Biennale, to participate in the Australia Council Professional Development Curators Program; Art 38 Basel 2007, the important international contemporary art fair; and Documenta 12 in Kassel, the major exhibition of contemporary visual culture held every five years. *Contribution from other Agencies or Sources $ Overseas travel in the 2006–07 financial year focused on professional development opportunities for curatorial staff undertaking key research and planning for the 'Andy Warhol' exhibition. Research for Gallery of Modern Art exhibitions, programs and initiatives, particularly for the Australian Cinémathèque, has also been a focus of overseas travel.