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

Contents 3
Conference sponsors & information 6
Introduction / Caroline Turner 9
Conference program 11
Day 1: Cultivating fields of difference? 17
Session 1: Globalisation versus unique identities 19
Mirror of the future / Caroline turner 19
Developing regionialist perspectives / Kanaga Sabapathy 23
Contemporary art and multimodernism / Jim Supangkat 27
Indigenism and globalism / Jonathan Mane-Wheoki 32
Session 2: Post otherness 36
Paradise, And Then, And Then, And Then... / Rhana Davenport 36
Era of an eventful voyage / Fumio Nanjo 40
Cultural futures / Alison Carroll 41
Time, space and discontinuity / Julie Ewington 44
Day 2: The voice of the artist - Listening through looking 49
Session 3: The 'role' of the 'contemporary' 'artist' 49
David Williams 51
Papua New Guinea culture: Perceptions and realities / Michael A. Mel 53
The 'role' of the artist and present institutional encounters / Ian Howard 56
The role of 'contemporary artists' in Indonesia / Dolorosa Singa 59
WHO do you 'represent' / Niranjan Rajah 62
Session 4: Artists and the social dimension 64
The present situation of contemporary Chinese art (ecology and psychology) / Wang Youshen 64
The artist and the social dimension in Thailand / Chumpon Apisuk 67
Martin Stuart-Fox 69
Individual freedom approaching creative society / Semsar Siahaan 71
Session 5: History / Memory / Voyages 72
The art of bottling a ship / Jim Vivieaere 72
LOCUS - An internal time / Kimio Tsuchiya 74
Cultural brokage in the Aboriginal stockmarket / Margo Neale 76
Nicholas Thomas 80
Wong Hoy Cheong 81
Session 6: Spirituality and re-investing tradition 82
Profane illuminations / Deepak Ananth 82
Beyond belief / Kamin Lertchaiprasert 85
Spirituality and the Torres Strait tradition 86
Day 3: New orientations 89
Session 7: Collecting and exhibiting Asian and Pacific art 89
Anne Kirker 91
Collecting and exhibiting Asian art at the Singapore Art Museum / Kwok Kian Chow 92
The Asian Art Show of Fukuoka and the new Asian Art Gallery / Masahiro Ushiroshoji 95
Korean art and its identity in the international context / Soyeon Ahn 97
Hong Kong 1997 / Oscar Ho Hing Kay 100
Victoria Lynn 103
Session 8: Voices of gender 106
Emotion and art / Chen Yan Yin 106
Vietnamese women painters / Dang Thi Khue 110
The inner space / Kamala Kapoor 113
Voices from Japanese women artists / Emiko Namikawa 115
Session 9: Popular culture: Metaphors fpr change 118
Takashi Murakami's work in APT2 118
Discussion of Mark Justiniani's work in APT2 120
Not so serious / Pat Hoffie 124
Popular culture / Patrick D. Flores 130
Anything goes pop! / Enin Supriyanto 133
Session 10: New orientations for the new millennium - Part 1 137
Facing the wall of the future / Hou Hanru 137
Biographies of speakers 143

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