The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery I 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 8th 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, 21 November 2015 – 10 April 2016. ©Queensland Art Gallery, 2015 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 the authors and QAGOMA. Copyright in all artworks 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 Creator: Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art Title: APT8 : the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. ISBN: 9781921503771 (paperback) Subjects: Queensland Art Gallery-- Exhibitions. Art, Asian--Exhibitions. Art, Australasian--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions Artists--Interviews. Other Creators/Contributors: Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.), issuing body. 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 parentheses. 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 digital files of the original works. Typeset in Ideal Sans and Flama. Image colour adjustment and prepress by Colour Chiefs, Brisbane. Printing by Australian Book Connection, Melbourne, in Hong Kong. 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. COVER ANIDA YOEUALI Cambodia/USA b.1974 The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) 2015 Two-channel HD video projection, 7:00 minutes (looped), colour, sound, ed. of 5 / A project of Studio Revolt / Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds fromMichael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery