The First Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery Queensland Cultural Centre South Brisbane P.O. Box 3686 South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia ©Queensland Art Gallery 1993 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 inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Coordinating Editor Janet Hogan Editor Suzanne Grano Editorial Assistant Catherine Spedding Designer Elliott Murray Typeset in Helvetica by Typographix Pty Ltd, Brisbane Printed on Encore Dull 130gsm by lnprint Limited, Brisbane National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: T he First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia, 1993. ISBN O 7242 5681 4. 1. Art, East Asian - Exhibitions. 2. Art, Southeast Asian - Exhibitions. 3. Art, Oceanian - Exhibitions. 4. Art, Modern - 20th century-EastAsia-Exhibitions. 5. Art, Modern -20th century-Asia, Southeastern -Exhibitions. 6. Art, Modern-20th century - Oceania - Exhibitions. I. Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (1st : 1993 : Brisbane, Old.). II. Queensland Art Gallery. 709.50904 NOTES ON THE CATALOGUE Essay text for this catalogue has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Essays have been edited by the Queensland Art Gallery for style, consistency and length. Biographical information, supplied as curriculum vitaes by the artists, agents, national galleries etc., has beencompiledinto abbreviated running text by the Queensland Art Gallery. T his text generally precedes the essay on the artist's work. Dimensions of all works are given in centimetres (cm), height before width before depth. In some cases, it was not possible to confirm details of works prior to publication. T he catalogue of works (pp. 111-117) contains the most recent available information. Where descriptions of installation works do not appear in the essays, these are included in the catalogue of works, based on available information. Photographs of installations are contained in a supplement published separately. Most cities and townsmentioned in the essays and visited by theAustralian selectors are indicated on the country maps. Some of the artists in this catalogue are also included in the publication Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, ed. Caroline Turner, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1993.