The Ninth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art

219 ESSAYS the power of artistic practice to have a voice or to show resistance. Though arising out of individual struggles in different locations and times, the poets who feature in Shilpa Gupta’s For, In Your Tongue, I Can Not Fit 2017–18 are supported by a critical mass of other voices. Exhibitions can enable the wider circulation of myriad and dissenting voices, inviting the public to activate the ideas embodied by the works. How to become spaces in which communities test dialogues and enact responses in relation to contemporary imperatives is a question for the museums of our time. Ellie Buttrose Endnotes 1 Hassan Sharif, interview with Ellie Buttrose, Dubai, 20 November 2014. 2 Waqas Khan, quoted in ‘Waqas Khan’, Elephant , no.20, autumn 2014, p.26. 3 Karrabing Film Collective, interview with Ellie Buttrose, Paris, 2 November 2017. 4 Christopher Turner, ‘There is an element of optimism in my work’ [interview with Rasheed Araeen], Apollo: The International Art Magazine , 27 January 2018, <https://www.apollo-magazine.com/there-is-an- element-of-optimism-in-my-work/>, viewed July 2018; this idea is also present in Araeen’s participatory works. HASSAN SHARIF Iran/UAE 1951–2016 Cutting and tying no.2 (detail) 2015 Cotton rope and wool / 275 x 650 x 50cm / Courtesy: Estate of Hassan Sharif and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai / Image courtesy: Estate of Hassan Sharif; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Alexander Gray Associates, New York; gb agency, Paris / © Estate of Hassan Sharif