The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

06 PREMIER’S MESSAGE 08 SPONSOR MESSAGE 10 SPONSORS 12 FOREWORD Chris Saines 18 HOW FAR CAN YOU RUNWITH THEWORLD BEHIND YOU? Maud Page and Aaron Seeto 42 BACK TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE: MORTALITY AND DESIRE IN APT8 Reuben Keehan 78 WHERE DOWE COME FROM? WHAT AREWE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? Ruth McDougall 118 THE SOCIAL MEDIUM Tarun Nagesh 240 ARTIST PROFILES 266 CATALOGUE OF WORKS 279 CONTRIBUTORS 280 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 286 ARTIST INDEX 162 AWORLD UNFOLDS: THE ROLE OF THE VERNACULAR IN APT8 Abigail Bernal 200 WHAT BELONGS TO THE PRESENT: APT8 CINEMA José Da Silva 210 APT8 ROUND TABLE Russell Storer with Biljana Ciric, Sunjung Kim, Lisa Reihana and Yee I-Lann 230 APT8 KIDS Tamsin Cull and Laura Mudge