The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Reuben Keehan, Ruth McDougall and Tarun Nagesh in the Asian and Pacific curatorial team, alongside colleagues in Australian and International Art, as well as our Australian Cinémathèque. As always, co-curators and external interlocutors have provided invaluable counsel. For the first time, the Gallery assembled a project- based Indigenous Advisory Group to provide feedback and perspective on artists’ projects in the APT that have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander content or that could benefit from guidance relating to cultural protocols. The exhibition-making process has undoubtedly been a consultative and considered one thanks to the input of Jackie Huggins, Michael Aird, Wesley Enoch and Avril Quaill, and our own Aunty Joan Collins and Bruce McLean. Most essentially, I thank the more than 80 artists from over 30 countries who join us on this journey. We are deeply indebted to their inspired, resolute and sometimes courageous commitment to their artistic projects, and for allowing us to include their work in this Triennial. QAGOMA has unequivocally declared that its future lies in the contemporary art of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. There is no doubt that the Triennial is what gives the most concrete definition to that aspiration — effectively leading our broader commitment to collecting, researching, exhibiting and publishing on the region. This Triennial, like those before it, endeavours to define some of the key contours of the present condition in order to better see the shape of the future. I hope you will enjoy all that is has to offer. Welcome to APT8. LEN LYE Aotearoa New Zealand 1901–80 Tusalava (still) 1929 35mm, 10:00 minutes, black and white, silent / Image courtesy: The Len Lye Foundation and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, from material made and preserved by New Zealand Archive of Film, Television and Sound Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua Me Ngā Taonga Kōrero PAGE14 PUSHPA KUMARI Madhubani, Bihar, India b.1969 Tsunami 2015 Ink on acid-free paper / 61 x 46cm (approx.) / Proposed for the Queensland Art Gallery Collection