Category: Asia Pacific Triennial (APT)

Installation weaves together the DNA of the artist’s indigenous ancestry

Posted by Abigail Bernal   ●   7 Feb 2022

Rocky Cajigan draws on the rich cultures of the Philippines’ Cordillera region to explore aspects of indigeneity, ethnography and decolonisation. His installations and assemblages are characterised by a profusion of objects which call attention to the hybrid contexts from which they arose, hinting at prior narratives and histories. Their juxtaposition allows Cajigan to build up…

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Once humble items now wondrous sculptures

Posted by Ellie Buttrose   ●   24 Jan 2022

Koji Ryui is known for metamorphosing humble materials into texturally delicate and materially wondrous sculptures and installations. Commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10), Citadel 2021 converts a 17 metre wide and 7 metre high gallery wall into a vertical landscape of assemblages made from household items and wood-shop detritus. The…

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Large-scale collages are based on traditional Thai paper-cutting technique

Posted by Zara Stanhope   ●   17 Jan 2022

Thasnai Sethaseree is passionately interested in how power and seduction fold into state and commercial imagery — particularly in his homeland, Thailand — and his practice investigates the relation of images to political projects dating from the Cold War onwards. His large-scale collages are distinguished by their iconography and the substantial collaging of cut or…

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Voices and visions come alive: Asia Pacific video

Posted by Tarun Nagesh   ●   3 Jan 2022

Artists in the Asia Pacific region were quick to embrace the possibilities of video art as it first began to emerge, and the region is home to some of the world’s leading moving image artists. With techniques that range from the most basic use of a handheld video camera to elaborate, theatrical productions, video continues…

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5 Incredible film performances by untrained actors

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   20 Dec 2021

The Australian Cinémathèque program ‘Under the Radar’ celebrates unseen cinema from Asia Pacific filmmaking highlighting hidden gems from regions that produce a very small number of feature films each year. Drawing on the past ten years, ‘Under the Radar’ includes works from Macau, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, Samoa, Kyrgyzstan and more. The films reveal cinematic…

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Three decades of Asia Pacific Triennial on tour

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   9 Dec 2021

Experience highlights from our long-running Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) series of exhibitions, when ‘Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT’ featuring works of art commissioned or collected from APT1 (1993) through to APT9 (2018) tours Queensland from December 2021 until July 2024. ‘Asia Pacific Contemporary’ profiles key moments which has contributed so…

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