The Sixth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

213 Shirana Shahbazi Still life: Coconut and other things 2009 To create Shirana Shahbazi’s painting for Kids’ APT, a workshop was conducted at the Children’s Art Centre with a group of local Brisbane children. Discussions introduced the painting project, the artist and her work, as well as a brief history of the still-life genre, inspiring the participants to compose their own still-life arrangements. The subject of the arrangements was a range of tropical fruits, flowers and vegetation readily available in Queensland. The resulting compositions of coconuts, hibiscus, foliage and fruits were professionally photographed and sent to Shahbazi, who is based in Zurich, Switzerland. The artist then selected an image and prepared it for the next stage — the image was transformed into an immense painting by billboard painters in Iran. After passing through many hands across the globe, the end result is a collaborative painting on display in the Children’s Art Centre for APT6. KR Shirana Shahbazi Iran/Switzerland b.1974 Children’s workshop, Still life: Coconut and other things 2009, Gallery of Modern Art Commissioned for APT6 / Courtesy: The artist / Photographs: Natasha Harth Hiraki Sawa Every Little Thing Moving 2009 In his film elsewhere 2003, Hiraki Sawa has created a film set within his London apartment and filled it with intricate, homemade animations. Everyday objects come to life, growing legs and wandering between scenes filmed in the artist’s kitchen, bathroom, home office and other rooms. For Kids’ APT, Sawa presents Every Little Thing Moving , a multimedia activity which enables young visitors to join in and play with the imagery in elsewhere . By moving three-dimensional objects over an image-sensitive tabletop, participants interact with and contribute to the film. Sound effects play in tandem with the movements, enabling children to create their own version of the artist’s original film, including a rich and unexpected soundtrack. Sawa’s film elsewhere 2003 screens in the space, as well as trail 2005, a later film featuring the silhouettes of animals moving on the edge of shadows cast in the artist’s apartment as day becomes night. A caravan of camels treks silently around the plughole of the kitchen sink, and an elephant moves dreamily across gloomy windows, while the silhouette of a Ferris wheel turns silently. TW Hiraki Sawa Japan/United Kingdom b.1977 elsewhere (still) 2003 Digital video, black and white, silent, 7:40 minutes Image courtesy: The artist, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo; James Cohan Gallery, New York