The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

linked to some degree into international networks. As a result, the framework for what is considered contemporary art has also changed immensely, incorporating practices from all over the world, but where do you see the limits to this? YIL There is much to be said for the globalisation of contemporary art — shared language, more participation, more empathy, making people and various parts of the world seem not so strange or far away. Can contemporary art champion equality? Is there a separation between the rhetoric and realities, between contemporary and historically situated contemporaneity? Does contemporary art suffer from gatekeeping, leading to a kind of parochialism keeping the contemporary art world removed from other experiences of the world? Does contemporary art become beholden when trying to include everyone/peripheries? BC The artist Mladen Stilinović beautifully framed the globalisation of the art system in his 1992 work An artist who cannot speak English is no artist . The language that we communicate with formulates our ideas in a way. Globalisation has brought connections and networks, but its capitalist mode of operation in contemporary art is also a new form of colonisation. What is important is finding individuals and institutions with shared values to discuss and formulate these values in public, and creating space to manoeuvre beyond mainstream contemporary art. SK The same artists move around the world remaking similar works. Because globalisation has made it much easier for artists to not only physically travel, but communicate and share their interests, everyone everywhere is more frequently able to witness similar art. LR In parallel with the globalisation of art there has been a shift towards a business model of arts education. And since the 1990s, this is how contemporary artists are introduced into the art world. This leads to a privileging of Western ideas. More recently there are Māori tertiary institutes offering creative programs that often include Te Reo Māori language papers. 220—221 APT8 ROUND TABLE