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Read • Celebrating the Asia Pacific Triennial from 1993 to 2024
For more than three decades, the much-anticipated, home-grown exhibition — The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art — has showcased an evolving mix of the … -
Watch • Lisa Reihana’s immersive panoramic video installation
Lisa Reihana’s panoramic video installation 'in Pursuit of Venus [infected] 2015-17' is based on the French panoramic wallpaper 'Les Sauvages de la Mer … -
Read • Conserving six colour CRT televisions in Nam June Paik’s ‘TV Cello’
South Korea artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was a leading time-based artist linked with the Fluxus movement from the 1960s. He pioneered the … -
Read • Performance video explores Pacific identity
In Heels and Walking the wall Angela Tiatia explores the stereotyping of Pacific female bodies. When Tiatia moved in the early 2000s to Australia from … -
Read • Role playing & humour functions as a tool for video art
For nearly two decades, Salote Tawale has upended viewers’ and critics’ expectations of who she is and what she is likely to do next. Significantly … -
Read • Fairy Tales: Life at the margins
In the world of the fairy tale, witches and crones are not the only characters who generate mistrust and fear — ‘others’, outsiders and so-called … -
Read • Fairy Tales: ‘The Nightingale & the Rose’ reimagined
Youthful transgressions and immaturity play out in many fairy tales, but few are as heartbreaking as Oscar Wilde’s original tale, ‘The Nightingale and the … -
Read • O: A multi-channel video & sound installation
For those who have travelled in the Northern Territory and witnessed the central Australian landscape, the experience is often described as transformative. There is little … -
Read • Hey sis
Since the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) began in 1993, the series has been celebrated for its engagement with Aotearoa New Zealand and … -
Read • Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait
‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’ considers the complex and fascinating genre of the self-portrait — a distinct form of portraiture in … -
Read • Water Stories: Elemental Connections
Water is one of our most precious resources, it’s the vital element that sustains all life on Earth. Angela Tiatia is concerned about her … -
Read • Edging & Seaming is a love letter to humility
Angela Tiatia’s tightly composed video and performance works often act as portraits of both an individual’s experience and an aspect of contemporary society … -
Read • 'Domestication' video addresses contemporary societal pressures
This striking video work Domestication 2014 by Liam O’Brien addresses contemporary societal pressures and the resulting sense of confusion and alienation felt by many …