Anida Yoeu Ali's 'The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night' 2015 extends from her 'Buddhist Bug' series of photographs, videos and live performances. In these works, the artist playfully inhabits a sinuous, caterpillar-like costume whose colour references the robes of Buddhist monks. Ali's bug was inspired by her fascination with Buddhism as a Khmer-Muslim, and the exploration of diasporic identities. The project developed when Ali returned to her birthplace of Cambodia as a means of inhabiting and recording Cambodia's changing rural and metropolitan landscapes, and of negotiating her culturally mixed background as 'Khmer-Muslim, Cambodian-American, Cham minority and Malaysian'. In a series of social encounters in locations around Phnom Penh, Ali's bug impassively occupies central stage among communities, schools, cinemas, restaurants, bars and urban and rural landscapes undergoing rapid change and development. Its lengthy coils wrap around tables, are poised with grace and improbability on a bicycle, and infiltrate karaoke bars. Her video for APT8 documents these engagements with Phnom Penh at night time, staging the nocturnal bug as a 'powerful place for encounter, habitation and reinvention'.
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art's flagship exhibition focused on the work of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. The 8th edition emphasised the role of performance in recent art, with live actions, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture exploring the use of the human form to express cultural, social and political ideas, and the central role of artists in articulating experiences specific to their localities.
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Anida Yoeu Ali, Cambodia/USA b.1974 / The Buddhist Bug, Into the Night (still) 2015 / 2-channel HD video projection, 7:00 minutes (looped), colour, sound, ed. of 5 / A project of Studio Revolt. Concept and performance: AnidaYoeu Ali; Video: Masahiro Sugano / Commissioned for APT8. The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2015 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery / © The artist
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia / 21 November 2015 – 10 April 2016
Source: QAGOMA APT Archive
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Vision Courtesy: SBS Australia
