APT3 Conference 10-12 September 1999
'Beyond
the Future' : 10-12 September 1999
International and Australian speakers took part in the APT3 Conference, which provided an important forum for the discussion of current arts and cultural practice in the Asia-Pacific region. 'Beyond the Future' was the Conference's central theme, chosen to allow participants to develop and extend ideas of art and contemporary culture in the Asia-Pacific region at this time.
The conferences associated with APT1 and 2 were themed 'Identity, Tradition and Change' and 'Present Encounters'. These were stimulating, challenging events, significant in their discussions of the historical context of contemporary art, new languages for art criticism in the region, a reconsideration of western notions of time, and a consideration of new strategies for deconstruction, particularly of the domination of the Euro-American art world. 'Beyond the Future' sought to draw together and expand these considerations, as well as focusing on the role of art and the artist in the 21st century.
VENUE
The Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
OFFICIAL CARRIERS
Singapore Airlines was the official international carrier for APT3.
'BEYOND THE FUTURE' CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Final: 2 September 1999
DAY 1 - FRIDAY
10 SEPTEMBER 1999
"Beyond the Future:
Local
and Regional
Perspectives"
Session 1 - Local
Welcome (9.30-10.30 a.m.)
Indigenous
Welcome: Lilla Watson, Local Aboriginal Community
member and Trustee, Queensland Art Gallery,
accompanied by didjeridu player Adrian
McAvoy.
Gallery Welcome:
Doug Hall and Dr Caroline
Turner.
Keynote Address:
Wayne Goss, Former Premier of
Queensland
and Minister for the Arts and currently
Chairman of
the Board of Trustees, Queensland
Art Gallery.
Morning tea (10.30-11.00 a.m.)
Session 2 - Beyond
the Future (11.00-12.30 p.m.)
Chair: Professor
Russell Trood (Australia)
Speakers: Dr
Geremie Barmé (Australia)
Sang Ye (China/Australia)
Marian Pastor
Roces (The
Philippines)
Lunch (12.30-2.00
p.m.)
Special Interest
Group Lunch (begins 12.40):
"Women artists and Curators".
Chair and Convenors: Anne Kirker (Australia)
Soyeon Ahn (South
Korea)
Professor Somporn
Rodboon (Thailand)
Eriko Osaka
(Japan)
Professor Salima Hashmi (Pakistan)
Amanda Heng (Singapore)
Mali Wu (Taiwan)
Session 3 - Regional
Perspectives I : (2.00-3.30
p.m.)
Chair: Dr Michael
Brand (Australia)
Speakers from
the region include:
Xu Bing (China/USA)
Professor Gulammohammed
Sheikh (India)
Dr Susan Cochrane
(Australia)
Lee Weng Choy (Singapore)
Afternoon tea (3.30-4.00 p.m.)
Session 4 - Regional
Perspectives II: (4.00-5.30
p.m.)
Chair: Jim
Supangkat (Indonesia)
Speakers from
the region include:
Huang Zhuang
(China)
Dr Dwi Marianto
(Indonesia)
Professor
Patrick Flores
(The Philippines)
Timothy Morrell
(Australia)
Performance: Michel Tuffery and Patrice Kaikilekofe (5.30 pm) (Note change from Saturday).
Evening: Reception
and Conference Dinner, Queensland
Art Gallery
(5.30 - 10.00 p.m.) (Invitation
only)
Speaker: The
Hon. Matt Foley
MLA, Attorney General, Minister for Justice
and the Arts.
Artist performances
and Artist talks
Note: This
program will
be finalised
shortly.
DAY 2 - SATURDAY
11 SEPTEMBER 1999
"Crossing
Borders: Temporal and Spatial"
Session
5 - Renegotiating Tradition
(9.30-11.00 a.m.)
Chair: Dr Morris
Low.
Speakers: Cai
Guo Qiang (China/Japan/USA)
Dr Jyotindra
Jain (India)
Margo Neale
(Australia)
Morning tea
(11.00-11.30 a.m.)
Session
6 - Global/Local (11.30-1.15 p.m.)
Chair: Dr Vishakha
Desai (USA)
Speakers: Jean-Hubert
Martin (France)
Dr Michael
Mel (Papua
New Guinea)
Dr Apinan Poshyananda (Thailand)
Hou Hanru (China/France)
Julie Ewington
(Australia)
Lunch (1.15-2.30
p.m.)
Special Interest Group Lunch: "Pacific Focus: 'salt water /
fresh water'"
Hosted by
the Indigenous Community consultative committee (Jennifer Herd, Colleen
Wall, Charmaine Wharton-Wall, Michael Aird, Debra Bennet-McLean).
Chair: Dr Sue-Anne Wallace (Australia)
Convenors:
Margo Neale, Dionissia Giakoumi (Australia).
1.15-1.30: pick up lunch.
1.30-1.35: Welcome by Lilla Watson (Murri community member, Member of
the QAG Board of Trustees and Acting Chair of the Reconciliation and Cultural
Development Advisory Committee).
1.35-1.40: Speaker from Indigenous Community consultative committee.
1.40-1.45: Neil Manton: Interesting facts about the Pacific.
1.45-2.05: A Niue perspective (introduction and video).
2.05-2.10: Dr Amareswar Galla.
2.10-2.15: Questions.
2.15-2.20: Dreamtime opera by Delmae and William Barton (Kalkadungu Dreaming).
Session 7 - Parallel
1 (2.30-3.45 p.m.)
1. Asia-Pacific Art: Beyond the Future.
Chair: Alison Carroll (Australia)
Speakers include: T.K. Sabapathy (Singapore); Connie Samaras (USA); Yasuko
Furuichi (Japan); Miki Akiko (Japan); Dana Friis Hansen (USA); Dr Jennifer
Webb (Australia).
2. Identity: ethnicity, multiculturalism, indigeneity, translocality.
Chair: Dr
Yao Souchou (Malaysia/Australia)
Speakers include: Tom Mosby (Australia); Professor Gulammohammed Sheikh
(India); Mella Jaarsma (Indonesia).
3. Chinese Art (in Chinese)
Chair: Claire Roberts (Australia)
4. Japan (in Japanese and bilingual)
Chair: Dr Morris Low (Australia)
Speakers include: Eriko Osaka (Japan).
5. Bahasa.
Chair: Dr Laine Berman (USA)
Speakers include Indonesian and Malaysian curators
and artists.
6. Multimedia
Art Asia Pacific (MAAP99)
Chair: Paul Brown (Australia)
Speakers include: Keynote address - Niranjan Rajah (Malaysia); Brenda
L. Croft (Australia); Amanda McDonald Crowley (Australia)
Afternoon tea
(3.45-4.15 p.m.)
Session 8 - Parallel 2 (4.15-5.30 p.m.)
1. Screen Culture.
Chair: Dr Laleen
Jayamanne (Sri Lanka/Australia)
Speakers include: Shiralee Saul (Australia); Fion Ng (Hong Kong); Feng
Mengbo (China); I-lann Yee (Malaysia); Ray Langenbach (Singapore).
2. South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)
Chair: Suhanya Raffel (Australia)
Speakers include: Professor Salima Hashmi (Pakistan); Chaitanya Sambrani
(India); Sharmini Pereira (Sri Lanka).
3. Australia in context.
Chair: Dr Charles Green (Australia)
Speakers include: Brenda L. Croft (Australia); Dr Deborah Hart (Australia);
Dr Rex Butler (Australia).
4. Commodification/Patronage/Censorship.
Chair: Dr John Clark (Australia)
Speakers include: Oscar Ho (China), Jean-Hubert Martin (France).
5. Popular Culture, Street art, art of the mega city.
Chair: Dr Kajri Jain (Australia)
Speakers include Dr Laine Berman (USA), Dr Nikos
Papastergiadis (Australia).
6. Audience/Artist Interactions.
Chair: Rhana Devenport (Australia)
Speakers include: Raiji Kuroda (Japan); Liza Lim (Australia); Alfredo
and Isabel Aquilizan (The Philippines); Santiago Bose (The Philippines);
Lee Mingwei (Taiwan/USA).
Evening: (Queensland
Art Gallery Open by Invitation only
- 5.30-8.30
p.m.)
Artist talks,
Artist performances, and Book launches.
Light meals
available from Bistro.
ELISION Music/Installation
Performance 'Transmisi' (7.15-9.30 pm (via bus) RSVP
required).
DAY 3 - SUNDAY
12 SEPTEMBER 1999
"Crossing
Borders: Challenges of the Present
and Future"
Session 9 - Parallel Sessions Reporting Back - Strategies
and Directions (9.30-11.00 a.m.)
Chairs: Professor
David Williams
(Australia)
Panel 1 - Chairs
of Parallel 1
Panel 2 - Chairs
of Parallel 2
Morning tea
(11.00-11.30 a.m.)
Session
10 - Panel: New Models/New Art/ New
Century (11.30-1.15
p.m.)
Chair: Dr Caroline
Turner.
Speakers:
Fumio Nanjo (Japan)
Dr Pat Hoffie
(Australia)
Niranjan Rajah
(Malaysia)
Emmanuel Kaserherou
(New Caledonia)
Dr M.A. Greenstein
(USA)
Alison Carroll (Australia)
Lunch (1.15-2.00
p.m.)
Session
11 - Beyond Dissidence - The
Art of Healing (2.00-3.30 p.m.)
Chair: Professor
Ian Howard.
Speakers: Dadang
Christanto (Indonesia)
Jagath Weerasinghe
(Sri Lanka)
Paula Boi (New
Caledonia)
Chen Zhen (China/France)
Afternoon tea (3.30-4.00 p.m.)
Session 12 - Plenary/Finale
(4.00-5.00 p.m.)
Chair: Professor
Iain McCalman (Australia)
Evening: (5.00-9.00
p.m.)
Artists party, Queensland
Art Gallery (Invitation only - included for Conference delegates in Registration)
Associated Events:
Attendance must be confirmed and, where applicable, paid for at time of
conference registration
Exhibition Opening
Thursday 9/9/99 (evening)
No charge.
If you wish to
attend you must indicate on your registration form.
Entry is by entree card only
Queensland Art Gallery
(includes river event by Cai Guo Qiang)
Conference Reception + Dinner $A25
Friday 10/9/99 (evening)
Queensland Art Gallery
ELISION Contemporary
Music Ensemble
Saturday 11/9/99 (7.15pm-9.30pm)
No charge
Installation/Performance 'Transmisi' with Indonesian artist Heri Dono
Return bus travel to venue $10
Artists' Party
Sunday 12/9/99 (evening) (cash bar)
No charge
Queensland Art Gallery
Convenors:
Doug Hall (Director, Queensland Art Gallery)
Dr Morris Low (Trustee, Queensland Art Gallery)
Dr Caroline Turner (Deputy Director, Queensland Art Gallery)
Professor Russell Trood (Director, CSAAR, Griffith University)
Professor Iain McCalman (Centre for Cross Cultural Research, Australian
National University)
Rhana Devenport (Senior Project Officer, Asia-Pacific Triennial)
Travel
For tourism information, including special accommodation and conference
packages, contact: Queensland Government Travel Centre, Brisbane APT toll-free
hotline (in Australia): 1800 801 009 International: +61 (0)7 3874 2860
Email: qgtc-groups-conv@qttc.com.au
Official Carriers
Singapore Airlines is the official international carrier for APT3.
For details on flights to Brisbane, contact your preferred travel agent,
or Singapore
Airlines.
Queensland Art
Gallery
Since its establishment in 1895 the Queensland Art Gallery has consolidated
its position as one of the foremost art institutions in Australia, initiating
and presenting significant national and international exhibitions. The
Gallery's continuing engagement with the region is demonstrated through
its significant collection of contemporary Asian art (including the Kenneth
& Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art), a research collection
of over 4 000 items and a database of more than 2 000 Asian and Pacific
artists. Publishing, conferences and education are important components
of the Queensland Art Gallery's programs.
The Centre for
the Study of Australia-Asia Relations (CSAAR)
The Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations (CSAAR) is an allied
centre of the School of Asian and International Studies at Griffith University.
It was established in 1978 to promote research and study into Australia's
contemporary relations with Asia. The Centre's research focuses on: Asian
Immigration Into Australia, Security in the Asia-Pacific Region, Asian
Perceptions of Australia and Australia's Economic Relations with Asia.
The Centre seeks to expand understanding of Australia's relations with
the countries of its region through workshops, seminars, public lectures
and symposia. It also offers consultancy services to government, commercial
and community organisations.
The Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research (CCR)
The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research was established at the Australian
National University in January 1997, with a grant from the Australian
Research Council's Special Research Centre program. It is the first Special
Research Centre to be established in the humanities, and is conducting
an ambitious and wide-ranging program in cultural history, art history,
visual studies, and anthropology, ranging over art, travel, colonialism,
settler-indigenous relations, migration, museums, consumption and other
topics of cross-cultural studies. Research foregrounds the Asia-Pacific
region since the eighteenth century, and illuminates colonial histories
and contemporary developments through wider global comparisons. The Centre's
activities are closely linked with the conference and fellowship programs
of the ANU's Humanities Research Centre.
Further Enquiries: gallery@qag.qld.gov.au
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