Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 1999 : Beyond the future : Report.

BRISBANE METROPOLITAN ACTIVITIES Queensland College of Art (QCA) The artists provided an excitingly broad spectrum of activities and arts practices. As always, where the residencies were most successful was where there had been good communication over a period of time and where there was strong on site lecturer support. With seven artists many of them working at the same time, these residencies did require particular studio areas at QCA to take a great deal of responsibility in organising space and time and student interaction. This happened more successfully with Karen Casey, Michel Tuffery, Guan Wei and Mella Jaarsma than with Shigeaki lwai, Katsushige Nakahashi and to some extent Heri Dono. While I am aware Christine Clark made clear to the artists the extent of mutual responsibilities in relation to the residencies, in some instances from QCA 's side of things, it did not always appear this was fully understood by several of the artists. Nevertheless I think there were wide benefits that resulted from the residencies for students and staff and I am grateful with the support from Christine Clark in realising the residencies. However for future considerations it would be better to have fewer artists, stronger preliminary communications, clearer expectations and the residencies lasting for a longerperiod of time. / look forward to working with the Gallery on these possibilities for APT 4. (See also attached report by Susan Ostling and by Coord inator Britt Knudsen Owens) Kevin Roper, Animation Department, Queensland College of Art Heri Dono's residency at QCA The Animation Department invited Heri to talk to the animation students about his life and work as an artist in Indonesia, and to explore his interest in animation in the few days that his time in Brisbane allowed. The exercise proved to be a fruitful exchange for the Animation Department. It was interesting to see what an artist from an entirely different culture would do with animation, and our students were very interested in Heri's talk about being an artist in Indonesia. Heri, on the other hand, was excited about the possibilities of sand animation in particular, a techniques he had not been aware of. He was also interested in 'paint on glass ' animation. It could well be that Heri will explore these mediums in the future in his mixed media works. He also intends to introduce these techniques to his students in Yogyakarta. David Johnson, Liaison for Pacific School of Screen Production (PSSP), Queensland Col lege of Art Residency for Shigeaki lwai Shigeaki's APT video installation 'Dialogue 1 999 : provided the basis for an informative and entertaining seminar, via his interpreter Sachiko Namba, with the Experimental Video II and PSSP second year students. Shigeaki also invited students to take part in fieldwork. This was to gather material containing Australia 's diverse ethnic groups to create a new version of 'Dialogue '. This was accomplished in a series of sessions and the video will be completed in Japan and exhibited at a future date. Students spoke positively of the experience. Katsushige Nakahashi (Japan) - One week residency photography department QCA I am reassured that creating an art work would across the borders of countries, overcome the history and language difference, and bring us the better understanding ofpeople. Charles Zuber, Deputy Director, QCA Gold Coast Residency for Mella Jaarsma at Gold Coast Campus, QCA The program, in particular Me/la 's contribution was well received by students and staff. It was a generally held belief that Me/la 's contribution was significant, not only 72