Detail: This event will include the work of more than 100 artists from 25 countries, including collaborations and collectives, which reflect the diversity of practices across Asia, the Pacific and Australia. A number of specific focuses and thematic links will consider recent shifts in contemporary art in communities that have not been represented in the APT before, including works by artists from Tibet, North Korea, Turkey and Iran, and from countries of the Mekong region such as Cambodia and Myanmar. APT6 will also acknowledge the innovation that exists in performance and music in Asia and the Pacific. APT6 will consider a number of thematic links, including the dynamism of collaboration, the power of popular culture to articulate perspectives on contemporary life, the impact of rapid social change on local communities and cultures, and the practice of drawing’.
Exhibiting artists and projects include Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Qiulin, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Subhood Gupta, Gonkar Gyatso, Kyungah Ham, Ho Tzu Nyen, Raafat Ishak, Runa Islam, Ayaz Jokhio, Takeshi Kitano, The Mekong (Bui Công Khánh, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Pich Sopheap, Manit, Sriwanichpoom, Svay Ken, Tun Win Aung and Wah Nu, Vancy Rattana), Kohei Nawa, Shinji Ohmaki, The One Year Drawing Project (Muhanned Cader, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan; Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Jagath Weerasinghe), Qiu Anxiong, Hiraki Sawa, Shirana Shahbazi, Shooshie Sulaiman, Thukral and Tagra, Charwei Tsai, Yang Shaobin, Yao Jui-chung and Ji Wenyu.