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APT8: Artists and projects

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’

This Digital Story is a permanent archive of artist and project profiles from ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT8), a free exhibition at QAGOMA from 21 November 2015 to 10 April 2016.

APT8 included more than 80 artists and groups, an ongoing program of artist performances and projects; a conference as part of the opening program; extensive cinema programs; publications; and activities for kids and families.

Two focus projects were the result of in-depth research and ongoing exchange with the region. Yumi Danis (We Dance) presents the vitality and complexity of performance in the cultures of some of our nearest neighbours: Papua, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Kalpa Vriksha: Contemporary Indigenous and Vernacular Art of India looked at the breadth and vibrancy of Indigenous and vernacular art from regions of India. Also featured were site-specific installations by artists from UAE/Iran, India, South Korea, Myanmar, Australia and New Zealand.

Many works were acquired from APT8 for the QAGOMA Collection; see the list here.


 

A photograph of a wedded couple wearing teal green outfits, including knitted teal balaclavas covering their faces. They sit on a light green throne-like seat with an enormous green floral arrangement and curtains behind them.

Abdul Abdullah

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A still photograph taken at night in a fun fair; the artist is costumed as a red caterpillar-like bug with a very long body and tail.

Anida Yoeu Ali

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A close-up photograph of an eye, with the lids held open by someone's fingers. In place of the eye itself is an embedded photograph of the horizon line over the ocean.

Rheim Alkadhi

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A black-and-white image of a clock, on which the numbers count backwards. Numbers are missing from the right-hand side of the clock. The hands point to 12:00 exactly.

Brook Andrew

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A composite image of multiple thumbnail stills, as on a Google image search, with black 'static' overlaid.

Yason Banal

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An artwork rendered in a bright sky blue with a dash of purple, depicting a collage of people, animals and landscape features.

Baatarzorig Batjargal

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A still photograph of a man in a blue suit jacket standing in front of a canal in Venice.

Richard Bell

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The casually dressed members of Bouillon Group stand on the shore of a river, with boats behind them.

Bouillon Group

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An oil painting of a rainbow over a mountainous landscape; the rainbow has a knot in it.

Chen Ching-Yuan

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An artwork on fabric, depicting plants and a scale against a bright blue background.

Sharon Chin

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A photo of an installation with colourful beaded strands suspended over a room with benches.

Choi Jeong Hwa

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A black-and-white photograph of young men protesting.

Kiri Dalena

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A painting of two 'birds' in the sky: one apperas to be a giant paper crane, while the other is a blue and purple bird with a human head.

Juan Davila

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A still photo of an industrial tank with rusted stairways either side.

Desire Machine Collective

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A photograph of four children, their backs to the camera, watching a boat in the far distance, on fire in the water.

Lav Diaz

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A painting of two women, each with baskets on their back holding a goose with a very long neck.

Duan Jianyu

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An installation view of a gallery space with a series of black screens on a white wall, with a polished concrete floor below.

Janenne Eaton

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An installation view of a large concave, round black sculpture; the background is dark and the floor is polished hardwood.

Lawrence English

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A photograph of a group of middle-aged men crying.

Köken Ergun

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A detailed view of a larrakitj (memorial poles).

Gunybi Ganambarr

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A painting of Mongolian warriors on horseback in battle formation (detail).

Gerelkhuu Ganbold

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A diptych painting with a painting of a dirty or burnt hard hat overlaid on small paintings of high-rise buildings at left; and, at right, a portrait of two Nepalese people, looking worried, with one holding a passport for inspection.

Hit Man Gurung

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A photograph of someone taking a photograph of a group of Iranian people in fanciful costume, smiling.

Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian

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A photograph of a man squatting on a hill overlooking a quarry in a valley.

Taloi Havini and Stuart Miller

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A composite image of colourful cartoon people laughing overlaid on a streetscape.

Haider Ali Jan

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A painting of seven deer-like creatures with trees growing in place of antlers; the background is bright yellow and the trees' leaves are red and green.

Kalpa Vriksha

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A still photograph o a track travelling through a mountainous landscape; behind the truck, a person dressed in red rides a horse.

Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev

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A photograph of a man standing in a forest in the middle of tipping white rubber sap over himself.

Khvay Samnang

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A black-and-white photograph of a large wooden colonial building; a Samoan woman stands out front, facing away from the camera, wearing 19th-century garb.

Shigeyuki Kihara

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A hyper-realistic painting of a road with grass and trees lining either side; text at the bottom says, 'Take good care of freedom. Truth will take care of itself.'

Paphonsak La-or

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A mixed-media collage with a yellow background and overlaid elements that combine myth, popular culture and history.

Leang Seckon

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An installation view of three brightly coloured oil paintings hung on white walls in a gallery space.

Liu Ding

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A sculptural work with kinetic elements stretching out of the top, which were moving when the photo was taken; their blurred movement is captured on a pink background.

Len Lye

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A still photograph of a woman in a red skirt and red high-heeled shoes walking down a country road, with orange dry grass at left.

Julia Mage'au Gray

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A still black-and-white photograph of nine women in matching shift tops standing in a row with their arms linked behind their backs, facing away from the camera.

Gabriella and Silvana Mangano

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A detail image of kinetic foam sculpture Cloud Canyons.

David Medalla

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A work created with blue pastel in pencil representing a forest in two panels; the left panel is coloured in a deeper blue than the right, which appears as more of a sketch.

Danie Mellor

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A panoramic photograph of Ni-Vanuatu people dancing.

Marcel Meltherorong

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A close-up photograph of the bare feet of a dancing person; the person has anklets of seedpods that would jangle while dancing.

Nicolas Molé

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An installation view of a larger-than-life-size sculpture of three made of linen, suspended from the ceiling.

Min Thein Sung

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A black-and-white photograph of a naked man wearing a beret and high heels standing next to a flayed bovine carcass.

Morimura Yasumasa

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A sculptural work appearing to be a wooden board inset with eight columns of tiles in white, blue, black, green and yellow.

Nakamura Yuta

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A painting of fine yellow marks on a black background, painted on linen.

Yukultji Napangati

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A close-up installation view of a sculptural work depicting a Myanmar school classroom with children seated at low benches, and with a teacher at a blackboard.

Nge Lay

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A photograph of a group of motorcycle riders with a web-like array of inflatable primary-coloured tubes stretched across them as they travel down a street.

UuDam Tran Nguyen

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A gouache collage with Bhuddist iconography.

Nomin Bold

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A sketch of a flashlight on the floor of a dark room, shining on a tiny hut with a dark doorway.

Prabhakar Pachpute

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Two painted works depicting islands installed on a white gallery wall.

Segar Passi

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A composite image, with four photographs; the top two each feature the head-to-torso view of a man, while the bottom two images present mismatched legs for the upper images.

Hetain Patel

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A photograph of a street scene in Myanmar, with someone riding a bicycle in the foreground and people sitting on a bench in the background.

Po Po

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A photograph of two men in the foreground of a field; in the background is a giant empty CRT TV set, with several people standing inside as if 'on' the television.

Pop Islam

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A painting in grey and black tones depicting dozens of self-portraits in different scenarios.

Navin Rawanchaikul

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An installation view of a sign that reads 'SAVAGE KLUB' in chunky letters; its background is a brown and pink mural.

Rosanna Raymond

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A work made in paint, ink and platinum leaf depicting a kaleidoscope-like view of colourful hands with snakes winding around them. The background of the work is metallic grey.

Tsherin Sherpa

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A chromatic development print of a dark beach with car track marks like veins all over the sand, and the ocean in the distance.

Shiga Lieko

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A still photo with a jet-black background; the face of a person with teal glitter covering their entire face, except red lips, emerges from this darkness.

Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra

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A still photograph of a person putting on make-up; they sit at a mirror with lightbulbs around it.

siren eun young jung

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A work in blue ink, depicting blimps that look like space ships suspended amongst clouds, overhead of buildings.

STAB (School of Theory and Activism, Bishkek)

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A photo of a brass band, all dressed in black, standing in a circle; facing outwards, standing on decorative pavement, they play their instruments.

Super Critical Mass

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A photograph of a woman standing in the middle of an art installation, wherein she crushes and grinds hundreds of kilograms of charcoal briquettes into powder and dust.

Melati Suryodarmo

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A painting of a white building with small windows; a blue sky is above and red clay or dirt lies in the foreground.

Risham Syed

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A painting that appears to be a wall made up of thousands of grey bricks.

Maria Taniguchi

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A triptych of photographs featuring a person wearing white face and body paint, red lipstick, and a conical hat made of flowers.

Christian Thompson

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A photograph depicts just a woman's legs to mid-thigh; she has Samoan familial tattoos on her thigh and is balancing on one black high-heeled shoe. The other shoe is on its side behind her.

Angela Tiatia

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A sculptural work depicting a man with rubbery features; he wears white and appears to be dancing.

Francis Upritchard

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An artwork depicting a chimpanzee sitting on top of an elephant; a knotted pile of people sits on the chimp's shoulders and, on top of that, a rabbit.

Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu

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A work with 18 near-identical passport-style photos arranged in rows of six; small amendments have been made in whitewash and pencil.

Yelena Vorobyeva and Viktor Vorobyev

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An installation made of large wooden beams built into GOMA's Long Gallery.

Asim Waqif

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A photograph of tall grass growing under a light blue sky.

Luke Willis Thompson

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A still photograph from a video work in which the artist portrays both a man and a woman, who sit at a bar together, looking at each other.

Ming Wong

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A photograph of a woman working in a butcher shop surrounded by carcasses and pieces of meat; behind her, men reach in through a narrow window.

Yamashiro Chikako

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An installation view of a large work installed over the QAG Watermall; it appears to be constructed from hundreds of glass panels.

Haegue Yang

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An installation view of a visitor sitting cross-legged in a gallery space that has brightly coloured animated forest scenes projected onto the walls.

Yumi Danis (We Dance)

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Standing in evening light on pavement, a group of people facing away from the camera wave at someone or something out of frame.

Zhou Tao

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EXPLORE APT8

Anida Yoeu Ali / Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) (detail) 2015 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: Anida Yoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the QAGOMA Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Anida Yoeu Ali

‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2015 - Apr 2016

In this photograph, four drag queens stand on a high hill overlooking a valley; they wear blue, red, yellow and green respectively.

APT8 VIDEO

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A composite image of multiple thumbnail stills, as on a Google image search, with black 'static' overlaid.

APT8 Cinema

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APT8

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An installation view of a work installed for APT1 in 1993, with sculpted wooden tree-like structures arranged near the Watermall in QAG.

LIST OF WORKS: APT1 to APT10

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In this photograph, four drag queens stand on a high hill overlooking a valley; they wear blue, red, yellow and green respectively.

APT8 VIDEO

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A composite image of multiple thumbnail stills, as on a Google image search, with black 'static' overlaid.

APT8 Cinema

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An exhibition archive of artist and project profiles from APT8 (Nov 2015 – Apr 2016).