The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

to the neighbourhood — a subtle yet continual reminder of traditional Buddhist faith and the routine of personal devotion in the busy streets of the city. Nakamura focuses on the material form of the shrines rather than their preoccupation with divinity, recreating non-sacred versions made to hold everyday items such as books and photographs. In keeping with the character of his work, the shrines occupy the pedestrian, in-between space of the foyer cabinet at the entrance to GOMA. Melbourne-based sisters Silvana and Gabriella Mangano have engaged with the Living Newspaper, dramatised theatrical productions that developed first in the USSR in the 1920s and subsequently in the United States a decade later. In There is no there 2015 they choreograph gesture and movement to perform various current news events in collaboration with local QUT dance students, activating the installation throughout the exhibition. Rheim Alkadhi’s The Eye Theatre Closes Its Doors, and Opens ThemAgain 2015 is a performance lecture that is inspired by the American version of the Living Newspapers and the structure of epic poetry. Alkadhi believes that art is not a personal activity, but a public platform to investigate ways of looking at society and relating to the world, and finds the permanent presence of an ‘art object’ problematic. Using photographs taken and created by the artist in the Persian Gulf, Palestine and North Africa. The performance focuses on the inherent theatricality that exists within photography, and questions the way we perceive and understand the everyday world around us. To return once again to the artists in Kalpa Vriksha, it is possible to see a number of intersections and connections between them and the practices explored above. Gond, Warli and Mithila paintings, as well as Rajwar sculpture, were created literally ‘under the eaves’, as Nakamura Yuta wrote of his shrines, as decoration on the internal or external walls of houses (recalling the Haerizadehs and Rahmanian). RHEIMALKADHI USA/Iraq b.1973 The Eye Theatre Closes Its Doors, and Opens ThemAgain (detail) 2015 Mixed media installation / Installed dimensions variable / Image courtesy: The artist OPPOSITE GABRIELLAMANGANO Australia b.1972 SILVANAMANGANO Australia b.1972 There is no there (stills) 2015 Single-channelHDdigitalvideo installation, 16:9,7:00minutes,colourandblackandwhite, sound /Sound:DanielJenatsch /Costume: AnnaMacfarlane /Colourgrading:KaliBateman / Developed forAPT8 /©GabriellaManganoand SilvanaMangano / Imagecourtesy:Theartistsand AnnaSchwartzGallery,SydneyandMelbourne 196—197 AWORLD UNFOLDS