Page 12-13 - Annual Review 2009

The Queensland Government is Founding Supporter.
Presenting Sponsor is Santos. Principal Benefactor is the
Tim Fairfax Family Foundation. Principal Partners are
the Australian Government, which provides assistance
through the Australia Council, its arts funding and
advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy,
an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory
Governments.
Relive
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Relive
13 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial
of Contemporary Art (APT6)
5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010,
GoMA & QAG
More than 16 000 people attended the opening
weekend, programs and events marking the
launch of ‘The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art’ (APT6). The vibrant opening
weekend program included artist talks, tours
and discussions, a symposium and the major
performance event, Pacific Reggae Sounds.
APT6 includes work by more than 160 artists
from over 25 countries, and reflects the
diversity of contemporary art practice across
Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Included for the
first time are artists from Tibet, North Korea
(DPRK), Turkey, Iran, Cambodia and Myanmar
(Burma). The exhibition occupies all of the
Gallery of Modern Art and key spaces in the
Queensland Art Gallery.
The Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque presents
two APT6 cinema projects, Promised Lands
and The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of
Iranian Animation. Three exceptional filmmakers
— Ang Lee, Takeshi Kitano and Rithy Panh —
are profiled as APT6 artists with retrospective
seasons during the exhibition.
Japanese artist Kohei Nawa (left) being interviewed with his work PixCell-Elk#2 2009.
Premier of Queensland and Minister for the Arts, Anna Bligh, MP , discussing
the Kids’ APT artist project Hi! I Am India 2009 (by Indian artists Thukral and
Tagra) with students during the APT6 media preview.
Right: Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (left) being
interviewed in front of her work Lightning for Neda 2009.
. . . the triennial is the most
dynamic contemporary art
exhibition in Australia and
quite possibly the world.
John McDonald, Spectrum, The Sydney
Morning Herald, December 12–13, 2009.
Top left: Indian artist Subodh Gupta (left), with curator Russell Storer,
presenting an artist talk / Gupta is flanked by his sculptures Line of
Control (1) 2008 (left; Courtesy: The artist and Arario Gallery, Beijing) and
The other thing 2005–06 (The Lekha and Anupam Poddar Collection).
Top centre: Charwei Tsai’s Sky mantra 2009 performance, in which the
artist wrote the Buddhist Heart Sutra onto a large piece of glass which
reflected the changing conditions of the sky overhead.
Above: Musician Laka Preis Carpenter (a member of O-shen’s band)
performing as part of the major opening event Pacific Reggae Sounds.