Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling back to earth

196 197 Cai Studio Cai Guo-Qiang Tatsumi Masatoshi, Technical Director Mariluz Hoyos, Project Director Chinyan Wong, Project Director Kelly Ma, Project Manager (until 30 August 2013) Xiao Cai (Cai Canhuang), Project Coordinator Silin Zhou, Studio Assistant Yuyu Chen, Project Assistant Sang Luo, Project Assistant Wang Di, Project Assistant Ting-Chun Lin, Project Assistant Karen Chen, Head of Archives (until 15 August 2013) Shu-Wen Lin, Archivist Chiaying Yu, Archival Assistant Stephanie Lee, Archival Assistant Wen-You Cai, Documentation Assistant Lulu Zhang, Studio Manager Hong Hong Wu, Financial Manager Zhenhuan Zhou, Operations Coordinator Quanzhou Xinwen Craft Company, Ltd PROJECT SUPPORT The Gallery appreciates the assistance of members of the Indigenous community for supporting components of this project and specifically thanks: Uncle Des Sandy, Jagera Elder Uncle Joe Kirk, Turrbal Elder Uncle Albert Holt, Bidgera Elder Megan Cope and the Quandamooka people, Stradbroke Island Derek Kinchela, Indigenous Australian Community Development Officer, Ipswich City Council Tina Longford, Indigenous Landuse Partnerships Coordinator, Ipswich City Council Aunty Joan Collins, Senior Indigenous Liaison Officer, Indigenous Australian Art, QAGOMA The Gallery acknowledges and sincerely thanks the many individuals and organisations who have given their generous support, as well as information and images to the exhibition, including: Alex Allen for illustration work on the Children’s Art Centre publication, Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai . William Barton, Wang Xinxin, Wang Hsin Yuan, Aunty Delmae Barton, Voices of Birralee and Dr Nicholas Ng (Queensland Conservatorium) for collaborating on Sound of the Earth performances during the opening weekend of ‘Falling Back to Earth’. Contributing authors Ross Gibson is Professor of Contemporary Arts at the University of Sydney. His scholarly work, spanning several media and disciplines, addresses environmental consciousness and cross-cultural negotiations in Australia and the Pacific. Recent projects include the books The Summer Exercises (2009) and 26 Views of the Starburst World (2012). Suhanya Raffel is Director of Collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. From 1994 to January 2013 she worked in various roles at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, including Acting Director, and was responsible for the creative and curatorial development of major exhibitions, including the APT series. She was lead curator for the Gallery’s exhibitions ‘Andy Warhol’ (2007–08) and ‘The China Project’ (2009). Ms Raffel is a member of the Asian Art Council at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and serves on the boards of the Australia–China Council, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, and Griffith University Asia Institute, Brisbane. Russell Storer is Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. He is the curator of ‘Falling Back to Earth’, and was a member of the curatorial teams for the 6th and 7th Asia Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Art in 2009 and 2012. He was a co-curator of the 3rd Singapore Biennale in 2011, a curatorial comrade for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, and a visiting curator at Documenta 12 in 2007. Ben Tufnell is a curator and writer based in London. He was a curator at Tate Britain from 1997 to 2006 and Director of Exhibitions at Haunch of Venison from 2006 to 2013. In 2010 he curated Cai Guo-Qiang’s exhibition at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City. He is the author of Land Art (2006) and the editor of Richard Long: Selected Statements and Interviews (2007) and Frank Stella: Connections (2011). He has contributed essays to publications on Francis Bacon, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Giuseppe Penone and Gunther Uecker, among others. Bligh Tanner Consulting Engineers for structural engineering services across the project. Joe Brumm (Studio Joho) for animation work on the Children’s Art Centre installation Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai . Ronan Burt for providing the voice overs for the animation Let’s Create an Exhibition with a Boy Named Cai . Photographers Jon Linkins and John Downs. Professor Suzanne Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Queensland Museum Network, Dr Andrew Amey and Patrick Couper, Queensland Museum Biodiversity Program, for their expertise and support in the development of the project. Springfield Land Corporation for providing trees for Eucalyptus and Tea Pavilion. May King Tsang for collaborating on tea ceremony programming for Tea Pavilion . Shanshan Xia, Chen Lei and Chen Erdong for their work on the exhibition documentary, Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth .