APSIG newsletter no. 58: July 2005

Brisbane Asian arts news

Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT)

'APT 2006: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art', the fifth in this series, will open in late 2006 as the opening exhibition at the new Queensland Gallery of Modern Art. The gallery of modern art is the Queensland Art Gallery's second site located just 200 metres from the existing building.

APT 2006 will include work of around 35 artists from Asia, Australia and the Pacific. As well as visual art, APT will present a performance program and, for the first time, a curated cinema program along with its popular children's program, Kid's APT. Artists announced so far include Anish Kapoor, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Stephen Page, Michael Parekowhai, John Pule, Kumar Shahani, Talvin Singh, Ai Weiwei, Yang Fudong and Yang Zhenzhong.

For more information about the artists and APT 2006, see the website.

Archiving the contemporary: documenting Asian art today, yesterday and tomorrow, April 2005, Hong Kong

The Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, organised a three-day international workshop, 'Archiving the contemporary: documenting Asian art today, yesterday and tomorrow' from 18 to 20 April 2005 in Hong Kong. The workshop brought together artists, archivists, curators and arts professionals from Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia, including Judy Gunning of the Queensland Art Gallery to discuss issues of archiving, documenting, preserving, managing and sharing information on contemporary Asian art.

Perspectives: Asia series

Perspectives: Asia is a series of public seminars developed and presented by the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. See the Griffith Asia Institute website for more information about the series.

Sparse shadows, flying pearls: a Japanese screen revealed, 27 August - 27 November 2005

This Queensland Art Gallery exhibition will focus on a pair of seventh-century Japanese screens by Unkoku T_eki (1591-1644) gifted to the gallery by Mr James O. Fairfax, AO. It explores the iconographic meaning of the screens and examines the wider implications of their theme within the social and political context of the times. An exhibition catalogue will be available from the gallery store.

Judy Gunning