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

PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery Queensland Cultural Centre PO Box 3686 South Brisbane Queensland 41 0 1 Australia ©Queensland Art Gallery, 1 997. This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the publisher. Requests and enquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publ isher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held in each case by the authors. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Present Encounters: Papers from the Conference of the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. I SBN: Editors: Editorial Assistants: Pri nted by: 0-646-3427-X Caroline Turner and Rhana Devenport Robyn Ziebell Melanie Raymond GOPR I NT NOTES ON PUBLICATION The Conference 'Present Encounters' was held in conjunction with the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (27 September, 1 996 to 1 9 J anuary, 1 997). The views expressed in these papers are not necessarily those of the Queensland Art Gallery. The papers have been edited by the Gallery for style and consistency. This publication includes all papers presented except those of Mr David Elliott, Mr Vivan Sundaram and Mr Emmanuel Kasarherou. These papers were om itted at the request of authors because of lack of supporting visual material or unavailability of text. Also omitted are questions from the audience and introductions by Session Chairs except for .those by Mr David Williams and Ms An ne Kirker. The titles of papers included in the Conference Program may appear differently to those reproduced in full in this publ ication, this is due to the finalisation of titles by speakers on the day of d elivery. The Queensland Art Gallery regrets that the visual material which accompanied the presented papers cannot be reproduced. The exhibition catalogues for the First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art and the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art published by the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane are available from the Gallery Store, Queensland Art Gallery, PO Box 3686, South Brisbane, Queensland 41 01 , . Australia (Fax. 61 (0)7 3840 7 1 49). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Queensland Art Gallery expresses its sincere thanks to Conference speakers for kind perm ission to reproduce their papers and to the sponsors of the Conference for their significant assistance. 2