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Watch • Watch as Kikik Kollektive paint their vast GOMA mural for the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial
Amongst the bustle of streets, marketplaces and public settings of Iloilo on Panay Island, street-side murals by Kikik Kollektive can be found. The works … -
Watch • Flame & hand symbols combine in a spectacular ceramic wall installation
'Spires of undifferentiated being' 2023–24 by Albert Yonathan Setyawan consists of two symbols — a flame and a hand — that explore the process of … -
Watch • Mele Kahalepuna Chun's Hawaiian featherwork is her sacred responsibility
Hawaiian featherwork arrived with the archipelago’s first inhabitants and is intrinsic to the identity and culture of Native Hawaiian people. Historically, featherwork was reserved … -
Read • Relive the Triennial Opening Weekend ... or catch what you missed
From incredible performances, to captivating artist talks and intriguing panel topics, 'The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' Opening Weekend had it all. Sit … -
Watch • Performance/ Plung: The Sound of the flute is unity by Joydeb Roaja
Triennial artist Joydeb Roaja's performance features the plung, a traditional flute played by the Mro people, one of the eleven different indigenous peoples who … -
Watch • Panel Discussion/ Art Grounded in Place
For many artists, ancestral stories, place and culture are vital to their expression and the materials that they use in their practice. Triennial artists discuss … -
Watch • Artist Talk/ Salima Saway Agra-An
Triennial artist Salima Saway Agra-an (Talaandig people) talks about her ‘Cultural fragility’ series and her practice of painting with ochres made from the soil … -
Watch • Artist Talk/ Eleng Luluan
Triennial artist Eleng Luluan talks about her large-scale installation 'Sin ka nadruma,Kay paka balribalrthi, Kay apa pelaela, Ku ki dredreme (The immutable spiritual … -
Watch • Artist Talk/ Albert Yonathan Setyawan
Triennial artist Albert Yonathan Setyawan talks about his slip cast ceramic installation 'Spires of Undifferentiated Being' 2023–24. This work consists of more than 3000 … -
Watch • Artist Talk/ Muhlis Lugis
Triennial artist Muhlis Lugis talks about his large-scale woodcut artworks which explore Bugis community customs, teaching, tradition and philosophy. Artist Talk: Muhlis Lugis 'The … -
Watch • Jasmine Togo-Brisby introduces her Triennial installation 'Copper Archipelago'
Brisbane-based artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby is an Australian South Sea Islander whose great-great-grandparents were taken from Vanuatu in 1899 to be domestic … -
Watch • Watch as we install the 4m high, 14m wide 'Cup of Life' for 11th Asia Pacific Triennial
'Cup of Life' 2023 is an imposing curtain of grinning skulls that combines painter Nomin Bold’s use of Buddhist symbolism with sculptor Ochirbold … -
Watch • Life cup is a curtain of almost 2000 cast-metal grinning skulls
For the artists, painter Nomin Bold and sculptor Ochirbold Ayurzana, skulls are ‘life cups’: vessels for human souls and consciousness that are confined within the … -
Watch • Celebrating the Year of the Wood Snake at Brisbane Quarter Precinct
In celebration of 'The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' and Lunar New Year, Japanese-Australian artist Elysha Rei has created a 25-metre … -
Watch • Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s Triennial installation is all about Australian South Sea Islanders
Brisbane-based artist Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s practice centres on research into the Pacific labour trade in Australia and how it intersects with her own … -
Watch • Zhang Xu Zhan takes you behind-the-scenes of his Triennial installation
Meet Zhang Xu Zhan, an artist and animator whose wildly inventive stop-motion puppetry creates a darkly comic world of animal outcasts and cross-cultural … -
Read • Works by Joe Furlonger tours throughout Queensland
Joe Furlonger is well known for his expressive, painterly figurative images, and vast Australian landscapes in all their brilliant diversity. An exhibition celebrating the work … -
Read • A forest world inhabited by creatures
There are 12 zodiac animals in Chinese astrology, and the 2025 Lunar New Year ushers in the year of the Wood Snake. Here we feature … -
Read • Birds tweet to one another in Bird Song
Although it sounds like birds have made their way inside the art gallery, on closer inspection it becomes apparent that the birds tweeting to one … -
Watch • Tully Arnot brings bird sounds into the art gallery
Bird Song is an installation informed by Tully Arnot’s interest in mediated relations between humans and nature. The birdsongs are in fact lines of …