The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

CONTENTS 18 Government message 19 Sponsor message 20 Sponsors 22 Foreword ESSAYS 26 Where we stand: The Asia Pacific Triennial 20 years on Suhanya Raffel 32 Cosmologies and conversations Russell Storer 38 Vertical ephemerals and Pacific structures Maud Page 44 Sustained intervention: Indigenous Australian art in the Asia Pacific Triennial Bruce McLean 50 Audiences and the APT Andrew Clark and Sarah Stutchbury 54 The archive and the atlas: Cinema as repository of the everyday Kathryn Weir 60 Transcentury Michael Wesley 66 Field and stream: The terrain of contemporary Asian art Joan Kee 72 Transcultural space and art historical consciousness Peter Brunt 78 Oceania Epeli Hau’ofa ARTISTS 86 Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq Evanescence Sushma Griffin 89 Asmat The eloquence of wood Ruth McDougall 92 Rina Banerjee The abundance of things Sally Foster 95 Daniel Boyd A voyage of discovery Bruce McLean 96 Louisa Bufardeci 10 – 6 = 4 Peter McKay 99 Neha Choksi An interview Reuben Keehan 100 Tiffany Chung Exodus Angela Goddard 103 Lorraine Connelly-Northey Mistress of iron Diane Moon 104 Michael Cook ‘Civilised’ Michael Hawker 107 Timothy Cook Full circle: Life and death in the Tiwi Islands Bruce McLean 108 Atul Dodiya The art and politics of friendship Reuben Keehan 113 Inci Eviner An interview Kathryn Weir 114 Graham Fletcher An interview Ruth McDougall 117 Parastou Forouhar An interview Bree Richards 118 Gimhongsok Irreconcilable differences Reuben Keehan 121 Uji Handoko Eko Saputro (aka Hahan) The ‘big artist’ Tarun Nagesh 124 Huang Yong Ping Shedding one’s skin Russell Storer 127 Roslisham Ismail (aka Ise) An interview Ellie Buttrose DOMINIC SANSONI Sri Lanka b.1956 Tree shrine to Hindu Deity Amman, at Haputale (detail) 2009 Giclée print on photo rag matte paper / 136.4 x 85.6cm / Image courtesy: The artist 15