Present Encounters : Papers from the conference of the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, 1996

engage with the show? How are the artists to be represented? How are they to be recalled without their presence? Does it matter if they are not there? Then there are some implications for curatorial practice which I have referred to already and I wonder is everyone really prepared for this level o f artist involvement, and do we have t he resources and the organ isational flexibility to handle it and how do we reconcile that kind of i nvolvement wh ich probably runs counter to most of the current dominant practice within our art and museum institutions. The audience, you the audience, may care to tackle some of those questions after you have heard our speakers this morning. 52