Six hundred Australian and International delegates gathered at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from 27-29 September 1996 for the Conference 'Present Encounters' held in conjunction with the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. This publication includes all the papers presented in the conference except those of David Elliott, Vivan Sundaram and Emmanuel Kasarherou. Caroline Turner, Deputy Director of Queensland Art Gallery commented in the introduction, 'Speakers at the conference called for a new understanding of the historical context of contemporary art, including modernism in Asia, a new language for art criticism in the region, a reconsideration of Western notions of time, and a consideration of new strategies for deconstruction...Many artists spoke movingly of the personal experiences which inform their art.' With biographies of the speakers.
Access level
Onsite
Location code
REF.APT
Language
English
Keywords
art writing, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, Asia Pacific, India, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore
Publication/Creation date
1997
No of pages
154
ISBN / ISSN
06463427X
No of copies
2
Content type
conference proceedings
Chapter headings
Session 1: Globalisation Versus Unique Identities
Mirror of the Future: Shadows Before
Developing Regionalist Perspectives
Contemporary Art and Multimodernism
Indigenism and Globalism: 'First Nation' Perspectives in the Contemporary Art of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Te Moananui-a-Kiwa/the Pacific
Session 2: Post Otherness
Paradise, And Then, And Then, And Then
Era of an Eventful Voyage
Cultural Futures: What will 'Cultural Exchange' in Asia be in 2020?
Time, Space and Discontinuity
Session 3: The 'Role' of the 'Contemporary' 'Artist'
Introduction by the Chair and Session Commentator
Papua New Guinea Culture: Perceptions and Realities
The 'Role' of the Artist and Present Institutional Encounters
The Role of 'Contemporary Artists' in Indonesia
WHO DO You 'Represent'? (And For Whom Do You Make Your Representations'?)
Session 4: Artists and the Social Dimension
The Present Situration of Contemporary Chinese Art (Ecology and Psychology)
The Artist and the Social Dimension in Thailand
(Speech by the Session Commentator)
Individual Freedom Approaching Creative Society
Session 5: History/Memory/Voyages
The Art of Bottling a Ship: The Polynisation of Art
LOCUS - An Internal Time
Cultural Brokerage in the Aboriginal Stockmarket - Installation Art as Social Metaphor
(Speech by the Session Commentator)
(Speech by the Session Commentator)
Session 6: Sprituality and Re-Investing Tradition
Profane Illuminations
Beyond Belief (Spirituality and Re-investing in Tradition)
Spirituality and the Torres Strait Tradition
Session 7: Collecting and Exhibiting Asian and Pacific Art
(Speech by the Chair)
Collecting and Exhibiting Asian Art at the Singapore Art Museum
The Asian Art Show of Fukuoka and the New Asian Art Gallery (A History of the Fukuoka Asian Art Show: When a Festival Becomes a Museum)
Korean Art and its Identity in the International Context
Hong Kong 1997: The Politics of Curating
(Speech by the Session Commentator)
Session 8: Voices of Gender
Emotion and Art
Vietnamese Women Painters - Their Role, Characteristics and Artistic Creative Potential
The Inner Space: Women's Art in India
Voices from Japanese Women Artists
Session 9: Popular Culture: Metaphors for Change
Discussion of the artist's work in the Second APT
Discussion of the aritst's work in the Second APT
Ikot (Round Trip)
Ikot (Round Trip)
Not So Serious (Transcultural Dialogues)
Popular Culture: Metaphors for Change (Making Change Popular: Making Art Change)
Anything Goes Pop!
Session 10: New Orientation for the New Millennium - Part 1
Facing the Wall of the Future
The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Brisbane Australia 1996: Present Encounters - Papers from the conference
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