The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

LR At a very fundamental level, categories act as yardsticks (for lack of a better word) and as humans we are intensely curious about each other: What makes us different and unique? What do we understand as the same? I think about my work as a provocation around which conversations can take place. Many years ago I decided that if I was going to be pigeonholed, then give me many pigeonholes . . . because life is being multiple personalities in one body —we can be a mother, lover or fighter, an auntie, a teacher, and over the course of a day be happy, sad, or even fearful . . . 1 Fono: The central political structure of a Samoan village, district or island. 2 Marae: A communal or sacred gathering place for religious and social purposes. 3 From Buka Kolektif’s website: www. bukakolektif.blogspot.com.au/p/about. html, viewed 15 July 2015. TOMÁS SARACENO DOF (Degrees of Freedom) 2014 Custom-made binocular / Installation view, REALDMZPROJECT2014 / Photograph: Jeonghoe Kim / Image courtesy: The artist and REAL DMZ PROJECT Committee / © The artist