On the occasion of the publication of Afterall journal issue 47, “Situated Practices and Conditioned Positions”, we are pleased to host a launch event at the Ocean Space in Venice on Sunday 12th May 2019 with an in-conversation between Ute Meta Bauer, Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore and part of the Afterall’s editorial team, and Michael A. Mel, Manager of the Pacific & International Collections at the Australian Museum and a contributor to this issue. The discussion will be centred on climate change strategies and decolonial methodologies that privilege the participation of indigenous communities from the Pacific within the museum. Bauer and Mel will examine the recent collaboration between the Australian Museum with the Asaron mudmen of Komunive village in Papua New Guinea. To celebrate this event Afterall is pleased to share Mel’s article “Privileging Community Voices: Cultural Revitalisation in Museology and Contemporary Art from Papua New Guinea” from issue 47, Spring/Summer 2019, which we have made available to read online free of charge.