The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue (APT2)

style wrappings, while Lisa Reihana's projected Maori imagery sheds a new light on the local waters that pass through the Gallery's Watermall. Yuk King Tan's project encompasses her characteristic small miracle of translation between Chinese and Western materials and forms. These five artists maintain their own (often fractured and multiple) identities, within the idea of a collective, voyaging in a single vessel. The work of Marie Shannon, on the other hand, acts as an outrigger; out on a limb, but helping to balance the whole. Her texts trace her mundane fantasies of being a video artist or fictionalise journeys into dreams of stultifying banality. Literally written on water, transience here equates to triviality rather than transcendence. For here in the Pacific I'm left conscious not of my voice, but my reflection- sea and sky and as awhite reflection I gain invisibility Judy Millar The geological flux of these islands is mirrored, more now than ever, by the mobility (geographical, social, racial ...) of the people who populate it. The drama and struggle implicit in its birth continue to be played out in relationships between and within peoples. Tension, contestation, bitterness and misunderstanding-these are and need to be made visible when we speak of Aotearoa/ New Zealand. The collectivity and inclusiveness signified by this women's waka, its representation of Maori, Pakeha, Asian and Pacific Island blood and cultures, demonstrates a clear response to current political sensitivities. However, in this celebration of diversity, let us not forget about the reality and the potential of dissonance. The waka and those other early vessels that found their way here were a means of exploration and hard won discovery, never an easy ride. Who knows where this journey will take us. The current, the tides, the stars, the legacy of my grandmother, my unknown companions. Bronwynne Cornish Priscilla Pitts,Director,Gavett-Brewster Art Gallery,New Plymouth, Aotearoal New Zealand / Top left Bronwynne Cornish Embrace 1996 Installation Middle left Judy Millar Detail, Window, window 1995 Installation in collaboration with Vicki Kerr Bottom left Marie Shannon Dick Frizzell's retrospective 1995 Photograph 40x50cm Above Lisa Reihana Te Wao OTane 1995 Velvet, silk, cordage,feathers 300x200cm A R T I S T S : PAC I F I C 127