APT 2002 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia : Report

FLOORTALKS ‘APT 2002’ 12.00 noon Wednesday 16 October Presented by Rhana Devenport, Senior Project Officer, Asia-Pacific Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery. ‘Asian Art in the APT 2002’ 12.00 noon Wednesday 20 November Presented by Suhanya Raffel, Head of Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery. ‘Australian Art in APT 2002’ 12.00 noon Wednesday 18 December Presented by Julie Ewington, Head of Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery. FILM AND VIDEO SCREENINGS 12.30pm Wednesday 6 November (3 films) Systems Interfacing Report: Stonehenge/TV Buddha Two experimental films. 24min. Australia, 1978. Electronic Fables An experimental film by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut. 5min. USA, 1971. Spring/Fall A celebration of video from the Fluxus movement to the music clip. 32min. USA, 1987. 12.30pm Friday 8 November (2 films) Play it again, Nam: Portrait of Nam June Paik, the Inventor of Video Art A video biography of multimedia artist Nam June Paik . 26min. UK, 1997. Processing the Signal: Video Art, Technology, Artists and Audience A documentary on video art, installations and performance, including the work of Nam June Paik. 38min. UK, 1989. 12.30pm Wednesday 13 November (2 films) Play it again, Nam: Portrait of Nam June Paik, the Inventor of Video Art (Rpt) The Double This experimental video presents fragmented cultural images from television footage. 29min. USA, 1984. 12.30pm Friday 15 November Moving Images A documentary about the parallels between mass production of weapons and mass media images of war and violence. 47min. Canada, 2000. 12.30pm Sunday 17 November (2 films) Video Art to Virtual Reality An introduction to the work of artists who utilise video and computer technology. 29min. 1992. Processing the Signal: Video Art, Technology, Artists and Audience (Rpt) 12.30pm Wednesday 20 November TV is Dead, Long Live TV This video was made to mark the sixtieth anniversary of television, charting its history and contemplating its future. 48min. UK, 1996. 12.30pm Friday 22 November Howard Taylor An interview with (APT 2002) artist, the late Howard Taylor. Australia, 1986. 12.30pm Sunday 24 November Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees Heralded as a new form of 'electronic cinema', this film tells a bizarre story about a beekeeper who enters a hallucinatory alternative reality. 85min. USA, 1991. 136