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Article: THIRD ASIA-PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART.(various artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY, BRISBANE
Brisbane's two-million-odd inhabitants just love a good expo, and with the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, that's pretty mix what they've got. Unabashedly populist, the APT3 is for the most part a spectacular pedagogical construct, promoting a therapeutic image of protest (the persecution of East Timorese civilians by Indonesian forces swamped the media throughout the opening events), interracial, harmony, and mutually beneficial hybridity. It is unquestionably a palliative that is utopian in aspiration--but with good reason. Having finally crawled out from under the thumb of hard-line, Bible-thumping state ...
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Article: Kiwis invited
The Press;
July 31, 2002 ;
333 words
... ... Auckland) will represent New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002 ... September 12 in Brisbane. New Zealand participation in the fourth ... with grants from Creative New Zealand's Arts Board ($60 ...
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