Article: THIRD ASIA-PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART.(various artists, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia)

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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