The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

KIDS’ APT7 ARTIST PROJECTS DANIEL BOYD Australia b.1982 Kudjla/Gangalu people QLD/NSW A darker shade of dark #1–4 (still, detail) 2012 Four-channel HD video projection, colour, sound, 21:45 minutes, ed. 3/5 / Sound: Ryan Grieve / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery DANIEL BOYD History is made at night 2012 Australian artist Daniel Boyd uses the dot as a lens through which to view the world. By over-painting an image with dots, he effectively removes information, leaving behind only remnants. He then asks the viewer to piece together what is known and unknown to recreate a view of the whole. Boyd has said: The viewer’s put in a position where they don’t have information . . . it’s kind of like an erasure of memory or history in an image or an object. [It] relates to the processes that governments used . . . disregarding Aboriginal culture and systematically taking their culture away from them. For Kids’ APT7, Boyd has created a multimedia interactive that allows users to reveal information about an image concealed via screens of dots. By giving information to the user in this way, Boyd allows us to engage in the redemptive process of piecing something back together, as so many Aboriginal families and communities have had to and continue to do. TIFFANY CHUNG Vietnam b.1969 one day the bird flies across the sea (detail) 2012 Photograph: Natasha Harth TIFFANY CHUNG one day the bird flies across the sea 2012 The different colours of the glass animals in one day the bird flies across the sea have been used because a child’s imagination has no limits. As adults, we tend to only believe in facts and lose the ability to imagine while children can let their imagination go wild. This is why children don’t seem to get bored of making art. There is such freedom in letting go of what we think we know and to instead believe in the unbelievable. Tiffany Chung A spectacular parade of domestic and farm animals, bird life, insects and creatures of the wild, each made of coloured glass, will enchant and beguile visitors to Kids’ APT7. Children are invited to get up close and view the different animal configurations, which range from smoky grey rats and flocks of birds to a lone wild cat. Connecting with the artist’s interest in ecological and environmental issues — also a subject of interest to many children — a number of stories were selected in consultation with local school children and accompany the groupings. Children are encouraged to view the displays and draw their impressions in a palm-sized booklet, creating a keepsake that features their animal collection. 270