The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia, 8 December 2012 – 14 April 2013. © Queensland Art Gallery, 2012 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Requests and inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by QAGOMA and the authors. Copyright for all art works and images is held by the creators or their representatives, unless otherwise stated. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. Every endeavour has been made to obtain permissions from the copyright owners; inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION ENTRY Author: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (7th : 2012 : Brisbane, Qld.) Title: The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) / Queensland Art Gallery. ISBN: 9781921503375 (pbk.) Subjects: Art, Asian--Exhibitions. Art--Oceania--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions. Other Authors/Contributors: Queensland Art Gallery. Dewey Number: 709.50749431 NOTES ON THE PUBLICATION The order of the artists’ family names and given names varies depending on the conventions used in their respective home countries, or the artist’s own preference. Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parenthesis. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the supplied transparencies, film stock or digital files of the original works. Typeset in Flama. Image colour adjustment by ColourChiefs and printing by McPherson's Printing Group. Printed on Silk Matt from BJ Ball Papers. WARNING It is customary in many Indigenous communities not to mention the name or reproduce photographs of the deceased. All such mentions and photographs in this publication are with permission. However, care and discretion should be exercised in using this book within Indigenous communities. The Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Arts (ACAPA) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s Asian and Pacific research and publishing arm. COVER RAQIB SHAW India/United Kingdom b.1974 Paradise Lost (detail) 2001–11 Oil, acrylic, glitter, enamel and rhinestones on birch wood / 300 x 900cm / © Raqib Shaw / Image courtesy: The artist and White Cube, London / Photograph: Ben Westoby PAGES 4–5 MICHAEL COOK Australia b.1968 Bidjara people QLD Civilised #6 (detail) 2012 Civilised #10 (detail) 2012 Inkjet prints on paper, ed. 5/8 / 100 x 87.5cm (each) / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery PAGES 6–7 GREG SEMU New Zealand/Australia b.1971 Untitled (from ‘ The Battle of the Noble Savage’ series) (detail) 2007, reprinted 2012 Digital print on PVC canvas, light box, ed. of 10 / 150 x 250cm / © musée du quai Branly, Paris / Photograph: Greg Semu / Image courtesy: The artist and Galerie Metropolis, Paris PAGES 8–9 Coastal Arapesh dancers, Dagua, East Sepik, in performance, National Mask Festival, Kokopo, East New Britain, July 2011 / Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan PAGES 10–11 THE PROPELLER GROUP Est. 2006 Vietnam/United States Birds of No Nation (detail) 2012, from Viet Nam The World Tour 2010–ongoing A collaborative project created with Shamsia Hassani (Kabul, Afghanistan) and El Mac (Los Angeles, United States) Acrylic and acrylic enamel on canvas / 350 x 760cm (installed, approx.) / Commissioned for APT7 / Image courtesy: The artists PAGES 12–13 AN-MY LÊ Vietnam/United States b.1960 Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam (from ‘Events Ashore’ series, 2005–ongoing) (detail) 2010 Archival pigment inkjet print on 380gsm Harman Professional Inkjet paper mounted on sintra, ed. 2/5 / 101.6 x 143.5cm / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2011 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery 320