The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) Catalogue

Acknowledgments The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 232 The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art gratefully acknowledges the valuable contribution made to ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ by the artists and the following sponsors and supporters: Acknowledgments PARTNERS FOUNDING SUPPORTER Queensland Government STRATEGIC PARTNER Tourism and Events Queensland PRINCIPAL PARTNER Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments MAJOR PARTNERS Shayher Group Urban Art Projects Queensland University of Technology TOURISM AND MEDIA PARTNERS Brisbane Economic Development Agency JCDecaux Seven Network Southern Cross Austereo through B105 and Triple M GRANTORS Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Government through the Office for the Arts Australia-Japan Foundation Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney Ishibashi Foundation Japan Foundation National Foundation for Australia-China Relations CULTURAL PARTNERS Creative New Zealand: Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Centre / Council of Indigenous Peoples Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust SUPPORTING PARTNERS Archie Rose Distilling Co. Bacchus Wine Merchant Newstead Brewing Co. ASIA PACIFIC COUNCIL MEMBERS Architectus Asia Society Australia Asialink AskRIGHT Griffith Asia Institute Queensland University of Technology Shayher Group Three Plus Trade and Investment Queensland Urban Art Projects EXHIBITION PATRONS Philip Bacon AO Suzanne Davies and Richard Dunn Dr Murray Elliott AO Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson Wayne Kratzmann AM Paul, Sue and Kate Taylor Daniel Tobin and Gilbert Guaring COLLECTION BENEFACTORS Dr Anne Best Chong Kim Chiew Contemporary Patrons Tim Fairfax AC Estate of Jessica Ellis Future Collective Metamorphic Foundation Michael Sidney Myer Oceania Women’s Fund Professor Emeritus Ian O’Connor AC Terry and Mary Peabody and Mary-Jeanne Hutchinson Project 11 The Spellbrook Foundation Bequest of Jennifer Taylor Uramat Clan of Gaulim and Wunga villages through Gideon Kakabin Ashby Utting Foundation Anonymous APT10 KIDS AND KIDS ON TOUR REGIONAL PROGRAM Principal Benefactor Tim Fairfax Family Foundation Kids APT10 Outdoor Gallery Project delivered in partnership with Brisbane City Council ARTISTS The Gallery acknowledges and sincerely thanks the APT10 exhibiting artists, performers and filmmakers and their representatives. LENDERS The Gallery is grateful to the lenders to the APT10 exhibition, including the artists and their representatives: Alipherta Benjamin Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala D’Alessandro Collection Deeleeann Daniel Vicente Diaz Digital Paafu Collaborative at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Sean and Pauline Dorney Jane Downing Greg Dvorak Galleria Raffaella Cortese Home of the Arts, City of Gold Coast Kaihaukai Art Collective Indigenous Uramat Identity, Papua New Guinea Emelihter Kihleng Angie Kolita-Payne MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg Karen Mitchell Aileen G Moses National Museum of Taiwan History, Tainan Dirk Spennemann Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Centre Raynold Tilfas Antony van der Ent And those private collectors who wish to remain anonymous. The Gallery acknowledges and thanks the many individuals and organisations who have generously supported APT10 artists and projects, as well as sharing advice during APT research and travel. PROJECT SUPPORT ARTISTS Australia Council for the Arts Bajau Sama Dilaut Weavers: Yee I-Lann, Roziah Jalaid Chong Kim Chiew: Liew Kung Yu, Mato Tytee and Yap Sau Bin Kaili Chun: Michael J and Bina M Chun, Katina Davidson, Tyler Francisco, QAGOMA Indigenous Advisory Panel, Olivia Robinson and the wai , kai and pae ‘āina of Hawai‘i: the sources of my appreciation for the water and lands of earth I Made Djirna: Army, AB•BC Building Hikaru Fujii: Chiaki Soma, Daisuke Tsuda, Yutaka Endo, National Museum of Taiwan History, ARTISTS’ GUILD, Luftzug, Yoshiko Isshiki Office Brian Fuata: Diego Aquilizan, Cindy Cave, Cath Charlton, Mitch Cumming, Nick Dorey, Adriana Fuata-Leilona, Todd Kenny, Zai Kuning, Matthew McGuigan, Joynita and Joneisia Mote, John Pule, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Denny Ryan, Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, Maria Smit, Brooke Stamp, Latai Taumoepeau, Lisa Viliamu Jameson, Jeremy Virag, Ben Wickes, Judy Yeh, Jacklyn Young Joyce Mary Arasepa Gole OL: David and Kotrina Gole, Rodinah Seripah Hao Jingban: Huayu Foundation, Rockbund Art Museum Hu Yun: David Coles, Fayen d’Evie, Larys Frogier and Rockbund Art Museum, Dale Harding, Spiros Panigirakis and the Fine Art Department, Monash Art Design and Architecture, Antony van der Ent and the Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland Kā Paroro o Haumumu Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions 2014–21 has been shaped by the creativity, guidance and interpretation of many people and partnerships over eight years. The project in APT10 is presented with support from Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho o Te Taniwha Iwi Liaison Komiti comprised of members of kā rūnaka Awarua, Hokonui, Waihōpai and Ōraka Aparima Rūnaka, who also previously have guided activity during 2016, 2017 and 2019. We thank the komiti for continuing inspiration and recognise the particular guidance of both Kaumatua Michael Skerrett and Kaumatua Stewart Bull. The project is in partnership with Southland Museum and Art Gallery (SMAG) Niho o Te Taniwha, Otago Museum (OM) and Southern research collaboration with the University of Otago Archaeology Programme. We remember those who passed during the time of this work, Tahu Pōtiki and Erin Tuhura. We acknowledge the following constellation of people who have shaped the progression of the work over the preceding phases of work: 2021 Wandering Cooks, Olivia Robinson and Christina Canendo Kuril Dhagun, State Library of Queensland, Bronwyn Federicks, Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Queensland, Te Kupeka, a Tahu, Rauhina Scott-Fyfe, Rose Elu, Aunty Peggy Tidyman, Aunty Rose Elu, Professor Melissa Fitzgerald, Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and Aunty Sana Balai 2019 Kā Paroro o Haumumu Coastal Flows / Coastal Incursions Dunedin Public Art Gallery (DPAG) Gwen Neave (Ngāti Kahungunu) was kaitiaki of the takoa from Murihiku to the DPAG, Tahu Pōtiki (Kāi Tahu), Suzanne Ellison (Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki), Rachel Wesley (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, Kāi Te Pahi, Kāti Taoka), Gerard O’Regan (Kāi Tahu), Vicki Lenihan (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kāi Tahu) all shaped the care of these whilst there. Additional guidance and support about the creative approach from Suzanne Ellison (Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki) led to new oral histories in 2019 with both Brian Allingham and Gerard O’Regan (Kāi Tahu). Atholl Anderson (Kāi Tahu), Gerard O’Regan (Kāi Tahu) and Alex Monteith curated taoka emergent from 2016/7 inventory work. David Dudfield and Kimberley Stephenson facilitated management of SMAG collections movement between SMAG and DPAG partnered with Lucy Hammonds at DPAG. New inventory work with SMAG was facilitated by David Dudfield and Kimberley Stephenson and OM collection work was led by Rachel Wesley and Anne Harlow. Inventory work and co-curation of emergent taoka from Otago Museum’s collection was by Vicki Lenihan, Baylee Smith (Ngāti Maniapoto), Rachel Wesley and Koreana Wesley-Evans (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha). The SMAG inventory work was undertaken by Laura Davies. Jacinta Beckwith (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) linked material held within the Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena (Coutts’s field notes). Vicki Lenihan led community engagement. The project was accompanied by Kaihaukai Art Collective comprising Simon Kaan (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha, Kāti Irekehu, Kāti Mako) and Ron Bull Jr (Kāti Te Ākau) working with Tony Heptinstall. In 2020 Erin Tuhura (assistant registrar SMAG), during national COVID-19 lockdown, entered thousands of the inventory contents into SMAG’s Vernon Cultural heritage management software. Te Reo Māori translation was by Rauhina Scott-Fyfe. Supported at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and curated by Lucy Hammonds. Funding was Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and Dunedin Public Art Gallery Visiting Artist Programme hosted by the Dunedin School of Art. 2017 Coastal Flows Coastal Incursions Alex Monteith with Mark Adams, Atholl Anderson, Lori Bowers, David Dudfield, Vicki Lenihan and Gerard O'Regan, ST PAUL St Gallery Taua Shona Fordyce (Ōraka Aparima) and Lynley McKay (Ōraka Aparima) were kaitiaki of the taoka between Waihōpai and Tāmaki Makaurau. Guidance and Mihi Whakatau in Tāmaki Makaurau were with Sharon Hawke (Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei), Taiaha Hawke (Ngāti Whātua ki Ōrākei), Valance Smith (Ngāpuhi, Waikato, Ngāti Haina, Ngāti Pākehā) and Professor Pare Keiha (Whānau-a-Taupara / Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata). Mark Adams presented work, and Atholl Anderson, Gerard O’Regan and Alex Monteith curated taoka integrated alongside inventory work undertaken by Lori Bowers and Vicki Lenihan. Management of SMAG collections’ movement between SMAG and ST PAUL St Gallery by David Dudfield, Kimberley Stephenson with Balamohan Shingade and Abby Cunnane. Te Reo Māori translation was by Poata Alvie McKree (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, St Vincent, Barbados). Curated by Balamohan Shingade. Funding was contributed by Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland PBRF fund. 2016 Coastal Flows Coastal Incursions Alex Monteith, Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho o Te Taniwha 2013–16 Project co-formation with Huhana Smith (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga). Collection management was David Dudfield and Tracey Wedge alongside the project inventory work of Lori Bowers and Vicki Lenihan. Community outreach was led by Vicki Lenihan. Funding: Elam School of Fine Arts, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland PBRF and FRDF funds and a Creative New Zealand Visual Arts funded Commission with Mark Adams, curated by Jane Button (video work in June–July 2014 in Tamatea Dusky Sound). Kā Paroro o Haumumu: Coastal flows / Coastal Incursions In Light of Time (2014–21) credits: Director/Editor: Alex Monteith (2014–21). Original audio (2021): Rachel Shearer (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungunu) with Cathy Livermore (Waitaha, Kāti Mamoe, Kāi Tahu). Audio mix and spatial design: Colleen Brennan (2021). Location camera and audio: Alex Monteith (Tamatea 2014, Hocken Collections – Uare Taoka o Hākena, SMAG 2016, ST PAUL St Gallery 2017, DPAG 2019), Fergus Milner (Tamatea 2014), Zane Egginton (SMAG 2017). Boat/IRB (2014): IRB loans: Surf Lifesaving Northern Region; IRB wrangler, driver, health and safety: Karel Witten-Hannah; IRB operation: Alex Monteith and Karel Witten-Hannah; IRB camera-rig: Harry Harrison and Fergus Milner. In order of first appearance: Richard Anderson, Anna Blackmann (Head Curator, Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena), Emeritus Professor Atholl Anderson, Gerard O’Regan, Lori Bowers, David Dudfield (History Curator, SMAG), Ailsa Cain (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu – working for Te Rūnanga o Kāi Tahu, Taua Shona Fordyce (Ōraka Aparima), Linsay Hazley (Tuatara Curator, SMAG), Paul Horner (Manager, SMAG), Rev. Peggy Peek