Heman Chong works with the imagined futures expressed in literature, politics and philosophy. He draws on personal emotions and commonplace urban experiences around the world, often working readymade objects and texts into his own distinctive designs. For his contribution to the APT7’s 20-Year Archive, Chong turns his attention to the past, with a sound installation created in response to his investigations of the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art (ACAPA) archive, paying particular attention to the history of the Asia Pacific Triennial. He constructs a link between the Gallery’s research library and its exhibition spaces, in which a spoken soundtrack offers readings of fragmentary texts drawn from ACAPA catalogues, articles, correspondence and other documents. Chong describes the work as a kind of ‘epic poem’, inviting viewers to make their own associations between these historical fragments and moments from a shared past.
The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is QAGOMA's flagship international contemporary art event, and the only major exhibition series in the world to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia, the Pacific and Australia.
APT7 continues the series' forward-thinking approach to questions of geography, history and culture and how these questions are explored through the work of contemporary artists. APT7 also marks the twentieth anniversary of the APT, presenting an opportunity to reflect on the unprecedented transformations that have occurred in Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
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Heman Chong, Malaysia/Singapore b.1977 / Asia/Pacific/Triennial 2012 / 20-channel sound installation / Commissioned for APT7 / Supported by the National Arts Council of Singapore / Courtesy and © The artist
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) / Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia / 8 Dec 2012 – 14 Apr 2013
Source: QAGOMA APT Archive
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