The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

Contributors CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Abigail Bernal , Assistant Curator, Contemporary Asian and Pacific Art Tamsin Cull , Senior Program Officer, Children’s Art Centre José Da Silva , Senior Curator and Head of Australian Cinémathèque Reuben Keehan , Curator, Contemporary Asian Art Ruth McDougall , Curator, Pacific Art Laura Mudge , A/Senior Program Officer, Children’s Art Centre Tarun Nagesh , Associate Curator, Asian Art Maud Page , Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions Aaron Seeto , Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art APT8 Round Table Biljana Ciric is an independent curator based in Shanghai. She is co-curator of the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015 (Yekaterinburg, Russia). Her upcoming projects include an exhibition at the Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), and a seminar hosted by CCA Kitakyushu (Japan) in 2016. Ciric has sat on the jury for numerous awards, including the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award (2013), and she is on the nominating council for the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics (2014/2015). She has been nominated for an ICI Independent Vision Curatorial Award (2012). Yee I-Lann lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. She graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) in 1993, with a major in photography and a minor in cinematography. Her primarily photomedia-based practice speculates on issues of culture, power and the role of historical memory in our social experience. She was most recently in residency at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, in 2015. Sunjung Kim is curator and director of Samuso, a non-profit curatorial organisation in Seoul. She is the curator of the REAL DMZ PROJECT, which engages in issues surrounding the division of Korea and the border region near the demilitarised zone. She was the Artistic Director of Media City Seoul (2010), Artistic Co-Director of the Gwangju Biennale (2012), and Agent for dOCUMENTA 13 (2013). Lisa Reihana (Nga Puhi, Ngati Hine, Ngai Tu) is an internationally renowned, multi- disciplinary artist. Her groundbreaking and courageous work spans many mediums including moving image, sculpture and photography. She demonstrates a keen ability to communicate complex ideas about indigenous identity and has an extensive exhibition history in New Zealand and internationally. Reihana has been awarded artist residencies in New Zealand, Canada and the USA, and her works are held in collections around the world. Russell Storer is a Senior Curator at the National Gallery Singapore. He was previously Curatorial Manager, Asian and Pacific Art, QAGOMA, where he was a member of the curatorial teams for APT6 (2009), APT7 (2012) and APT8 (until November 2014), and curated ‘Cai Guo- Qiang: Falling Back to Earth’, 2013. He was a co-curator of the 3rd Singapore Biennale (2011), a curatorial comrade for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, and a visiting curator at documenta 12 (2007). CO-CURATORS and ADVISERS Yason Banal , the co-curator of ‘Filipino Indie’, is an artist who moves between installation, photography, video, performance, text, curating and pedagogy. He teaches film studies at the University of the Philippines Film Institute. Minhazz Majumdar is a Delhi-based curator and consultant who works closely with artists and communities in India, specialising in vernacular and indigenous art forms. She has collaborated with major international museums on exhibitions and collection development and has facilitated several cross-cultural exchange programs. Majumdar assisted with the APT8 focus project Kalpa Vriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India. Marcel Meltherorong , the co-curator of Yumi Danis (We Dance), is an author, poet, storyteller, playwright, producer, musician, songwriter and artist hailing from the small island of Vao off the north-east coast of Malekula, Vanuatu. Known in Melanesia as Mars Melto, he has been at the forefront of Vanuatu’s creative industries for over a decade. Khaled Sabsabi , the co-curator of ‘Pop Islam’, is an Australian artist working in video and installation. Since the late 1980s, he has engaged communities to develop projects that reflect the complex nature of culture and identity in particular, and the global connections between people and places facilitated by history, migration and technology. 278—279 CONTRIBUTORS