Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY The Queensland Art Gallery (formerly Queensland National Art Gallery) is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre, and is located nearest to Brisbane River at South Bank. The Queensland Art Gallery is adjacent to the Queensland Museum. With a curatorium more multiracial than the Jedi Council, the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial brings together work from as far afield as China, Pakistan, and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (păp`  ə, –y . As the stats attest - 75 artists and 150 curators, writers, and scholars from 20 countries - the APT is the most comprehensive survey of its kind. In keeping with the "past" and "present" themes of the first two triennials, the third installment, rather ambitiously subtitled "Beyond the Future," is designed to spark consideration of the artistic and political destinies of the region - all from the vantage point of subtropical sub·trop·i·cal adj. Of, relating to, or being the geographic areas adjacent to the Tropics. subtropical Adjective of the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands Brisbane, home to a populace sufficiently dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. from its predominantly Anglo origins to imagine a future free of the Phantom Menace of Eurocentrism. Sept. 9, 1999-Jan. 26, 2000. |
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