Art and its `others': recent Australian-Asian visual exchanges (original) (raw)

1994, Australia and Asia: cultural transactions

1994 / 1997 ‘Art and its `others' - recent Australian-Asian visual exchanges’, 1997 ‘Art and its ‘others’ - recent Australian-Asian visual exchanges’, Dever, Maryanne, ed., Australia and Asia: cultural transactions, Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997, 196-213. There has recently been a great deal of activity in the Australian art world related to exhibitions of Australian art in Asia and of Asian art in Australia, and the publication of other literature. Perhaps the most significant of these exhibitions was the Asia-Pacific Triennale at Brisbane in September-December 1993 which brought together artists from the Asia-Pacific region with their Australasian contemporaries. This paper will analyze some of the explicit objectives of the Triennale activities alongside their implicit assumptions about Australia's place in Asia, and summarize what has structured debates about Australian art and Asia.