Beyond the Future: Papers from the Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

EDITORS: Caroline Turner and Morris Low EDITOR, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP LUNCH: WOMEN ARTISTS & CURATORS: Anne Kirker PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery PO Box 3686 South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia gallery@qag.qld.gov.au ©Queensland Art Gallery, 2000. 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 enquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held in each case by the authors. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (3rd : 1999 : Brisbane, Qld.). Beyond the future : papers from the conference of the third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, 1999. ISBN 1 876509 90 2. 1. Art, Modern - 20th century - Asia - Congresses. 2. Art, Modern - 20th century - Pacific Area - Congresses. 3. Art, Asian - Congresses. 4. Art, Modern - 20th century - Asia - Themes, motives - Congresses. 5. Art, Modern - 20th century - Pacific Area - Themes, motives - Congresses. 6. Art criticism - Asia - Congresses. 7. Art criticism - Pacific Area - Congresses. I. Low, Morris Fraser. II Turner, Caroline, 1947- . Ill. Queensland Art Gallery. IV. Title. 709.509049 NOTES ON PUBLICATION The Conference 'Beyond the Future' was held in conjunction with the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (9 September, 1999 to 26 January, 2000). The Conference was jointly convened by Queensland Art Gallery, The Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations (CSAAR), Griffith University, Brisbane and The Centre for Cross­ Cultural Research (CCR), Australian National University, Canberra. The authors as attributed have supplied text for this publication. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Queensland Art Gallery. The papers have been copy edited only by the Gallery for style and consistency. The Queensland Art Gallery regrets that the visual material which accompanied the presented papers cannot be reproduced. The publication includes all papers submitted for publication by speakers, however this publication is not a complete record of papers presented. It has been prepared for the purposes of documentation of and access to the APT3 conference. The titles of papers included in the Conference Program may appear differently to those reproduced in full in this publication. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Queensland Art Gallery expresses its sincere thanks to Conference speakers for kind permission to reproduce their papers and to the sponsors of the Conference for their significant assistance. 2 www.qag.qld.gov.au