![]() First shown at New York’s Guggenheim as part of the group show ‘One Hand Clapping’, Asia One was described by The New York Times as ‘a mournfully beautiful hybrid of economic forecast and tragic love story’. The hour-long film continues Fei’s exploration of Artificial Intelligence and how, in her view, it will inevitably rule the world. Immense shell wheels from Papua New Guinea (PNG) are exhibited within cooee of Chinese artist Cao Fei’s recent fictional narrative film, Asia One (2018), set in a logistics warehouse in China where millions of deliveries every day are driven by robots rather than humans. ‘Women’s practices and women’s wealth are a big part of this APT, as are alternative forms of wealth and labour, partly touching on where they might be going,’ Stanhope says. However the APT9 theme that emerges is one of customary practice. There’s also an animation by Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji that has inspired a paper boat-making activity, A Boat to Carry your Dreams (2018). The ever-popular APT Kids area returns, featuring eight interactive projects including Australian artist Gary Carsley’s Purple Reign (2018), an immersive secret garden populated with images of jacarandas and interactive experiences. There are ‘new types of dramas coming out of India, what they call New Bollywood … a different style of filmmaking … where people who have become cinema-goers have decided to create their own films … a bit more regional in style and content, looking at everyday life,’ she says. Stanhope rattled off a list of visual artists who would be included in APT9, including filmmakers from India and South-East Asia in the curated film program. With its litany of pithy hand-drawn labels in both English and Mandarin, the Map of Utopia (2018) satirises many technological moments in world history. ![]() ![]() After five days of intensive painting Zhijie’s fingers were stained black and he looked exhausted. ONE HAND CLAPPING GUGGENHEIM ASIA ONE PLUSAs he worked, he was perched on top of a dizzyingly high ten-metre plus scissor lift that beeped and swayed as it moved through the space. At thirty metres long and sixteen metres high, it’s his largest to date. So, leading Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie has been hard at work painting one of his enormous site-specific maps directly onto the wall of QAGOMA’s Long Gallery. ![]() Gallery Director Chris Saines had wanted something on show that would whet visitor’s appetites well before APT officially opened. Even though one third of the artists had by then been selected, the process, predicated on extensive curatorial travel and fieldwork throughout South-East Asia, proved daunting. Zara Stanhope joined the gallery last year to assume responsibility for APT9 and found herself pitched straight into the challenge of bringing together eighty artists and artist groups from over thirty countries to craft the Asian region’s only exhibition devoted exclusively to Asian, Pacific and Australian art. ![]()
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