CONTEMPORARY ASIA-PACIFIC ART MUSEUMS:

A Bibliography
Prepared by Caroline Turner and Michelle Antoinette
General Museum References:
Nindityo Adipurnomo, Art institution without a museum a quest in CIMAM SEOUL
2004, CIMAM, ICOM, 2005 pp.82-87.
American Association of Museums (AAM) Code of Ethics, www.aam-us.org/aamcoe.htm.
Artlink, The Long Stare: seeing Contemporary Asian art now, Vol 20 no 2, essays on
women artists.
Michael Ames, Biculturalism in exhibitions, Museum Anthropology, 15:2 (1991), pp.7-15.
Michael Ames, Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums, University of
British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1992.
Margaret Anderson, Selling the Past: History in Museums in the 1990s, in John Rickard and
Peter Spearitt (eds), Packaging the Past: Public Histories, Melbourne University Press,
Melbourne, 1991, pp.130-141.
Arjun Appadurai, Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, Bruce
Robbins, (ed.), The Phantom Public Sphere, University of Minnesota Press, 1993, pp.269-295.
Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge, Museums are good to think: heritage on view
in India, in David Boswell and Jessica Evans (eds), Representing the Nation: A Reader, Histories,
heritage and museums, Routledge, London and New York, 1999.
Arjun Appadurai, and K. Stenou, Sustainable pluralism and the future of belonging in
UNESCO: World Culture Report 2000, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 111-120.
Asia Art Archive. This key on-line catalogue has been developed by the Asia Art Archive
research centre in Hong Kong and is dedicated to documenting the recent history of visual
art from the region within an international context: http://www.aaa.org.hk/search.asp.
Tony Bennett, The Exhibtionary Complex, in Reesa Grossberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and
Sandy Nairne, Thinking about exhibitions, Routledge, London and New York, 1996.
Tony Bennett, The birth of the museum: history, theory, politics, Routledge, London & New York,
1995.

Tony Bennett, The rules of culture: exhibition and the politics of knowledge. Asia in
Transition, Japan Foundation Forum, 2002, pp.317-327.
Tony Bennett, Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism, Routledge, London and
New York, 2004.
Tony Bennett, Useful Culture, in David Boswell and Jessica Evans (eds), Representing the
Nation: A Reader, Histories, heritage and museums, Routledge, London and New York, 1999.
M. Berger, Are Art Museums Racist?, Art in America, 78:9 (1990), pp.68-75.
T. Bevers (ed.), Artists-Dealers-Consumers: on the social world of art, Verloren, Hilvershum, 1994
Rustam Bharucha, Beyond the Box: Problematising the New Asian Museum, Third Text,
Vol 52, Summer, 2000, pp. 11-19.
Biennale of Venice website www.labiennale.org. It has a history of the Biennale as well as
current information.
Iwona Blazwick (ed.), Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Gallery
London, 2001. Reiko Tomii Tokyo 1967-1973, pp. 200-220.
Ren Block (ed.), Das Lied von der Erde / The Song of the Earth, exhibition catalogue, Museum
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 2000. Associated with this international exhibition was a
conference on the concept and nature of recurrent exhibitions, Biennials in Dialogue,
appropriately held in Kassel the host city of Documenta. The catalogue contains an
interview with Ren Block, who has been involved with many such exhibitions (including a
long involvement with the Biennale of Sydney) and essays on exhibitions in Havana,
Istanbul, Johannesburg, Gwangju, Lyon, Pittsburgh, So Paulo and Sydney. The Museums
website http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de/ausst/conf-e.html contains information on
this and a subsequent conference, Biennials in Dialogue: exchange or global incest, held in
Frankfurt in 2002.
Richard Bolton ed., Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversises in the Arts, New Press,
New York, 1992.
Mary Bouquet, Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of
Natural History, in Sharon MacDonald, The politics of display: museums, science, culture,
Routledge, New York, 1997.
David Boswell and Jessica Evans (eds), Representing the Nation: A Reader, Histories, heritage and
museums, Routledge, London and New York, 1999.
Alison Carroll Arts Infrastructure and networks in Asia in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and
Social Change, Pandanus Press, 2005, pp.542- 553.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Museums in late democracies, Humanities Research, Vol. IX, 1, 20.

Derrick Chong, Arts Management, London and New York, Routledge, 2002.
Christine Clark, Distinctive Voices: Artist-initiated spaces and projects in Caroline Turner
(ed.), Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Press 2005, pp.
554-568.
John Clark, Modern Asian Art: Its Construction and Reception, Furuichi Yasuko &
Hoashi Aki (eds), Symposium: 'Asian Contemporary Art Reconsidered', The Japan Foundation Asia
Center, Tokyo, 1997.
John Clark The Contemporary in Modern Asian Art, Craftsman House 1998, pp 283-301.
James Clifford, On Collecting Art and Culture, in Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary
Cultures, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and MIT Press, Mass., 1990.
James Clifford, Museums as Contact Zones, in David Boswell and Jessica Evans (eds),
Representing the Nation: A Reader, Histories, heritage and museums, Routledge, London and New
York, 1999.
Annie E. Coombes, Inventing the Postcolonial: Hybridity and Constituency in
Contemporary Curating, in Donald Preziosi ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Antholgy,
Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1998.
J. Corner & S. Harvey (ed.), Enterprise and heritage: cross-currents of national culture, London,
Routlege, 1991.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia ; translated
by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 1987.
Gilles Deleuze, On the line / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari , translated by John Johnston.
Semiotext(e): New York, 1983.
Donna De Salvo, Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks at Itself, The Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, New York, 1993.
Different Voices: A Social, Cultural and Historical Framework for Change in the American Art Museum,
American Association of Art Museums, New York, 1992.
Douglas Crimp, On the Museums Ruins, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.,1993.
Graeme Davison, National Museums in a Global Age: Observations abroad and reflections
at home in D. McIntyre, and K. Wehner (eds.), National Museums: Negotiating Histories,
National Museum of Australia, Canberra, pp. 12-28.
Nelia Dias, The visibility of difference: nineteenth-century French anthropological
collections, in Sharon MacDonald, The politics of display: museums, science, culture, Routledge,
New York, 1997.

Carol Duncan, The art museum as ritual, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, March 1995, pp. 10-13
Also in Donald Preziosi ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Antholgy, Oxford University
Press, Oxford and New York, 1998.
Carol Duncan, Civoilising Rituals: inside public art museums, Routledge, London, 1995.
Dynah Dysart and Hannah Fink (eds.), Asian Women Artists, Craftsman House, 1996.
Edson, Gary, Ethics and the Profession, Edson, Gary (Ed.), Museum Ethics, London and
New York, Routledge, 1997, pp 18-35.
Gary Edson (Ed.), Museum Ethics, London and New York, Routledge, 1997.
Albert E. Elsen, Museum blockbusters: assessing the pros and cons, Art in America, 74:6 (1986),
pp.24-7.
Elsner, J. & Cardinal, R. eds., The cultures of collecting, Reaktion Books, London, 1994.
Jean Fisher (ed.), Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press/inIVA,
London, 1994.
Flights of Folly, Newsweek, August 12, 2002.
Henrietta Fourmile, Respecting our Knowledge, Humanities Research, (special issue on Indigenous
Knowledge), Vol VI1, no. 1, 2000, pp 41-53 (this deals with ecological issues but raises
significant questions applicable to museums and community organizations dealing with
Indigenous culture).
Martin Stuart-Fox, Individual Freedom Approaching Creative Society, in Caroline Turner
and Rhana Devenport (eds.), Papers from the Conference of the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial,
Queensland Art Gallery, 1996, pp.69-70.
Nstor Garca Canclini, Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on
Multiculturalism, in Donald Preziosi ed., The Art of Art History: A Critical Antholgy, Oxford
University Press, Oxford and New York, 1998.
Stephen Greenblatt, 'Resonance and Wonder', in Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp (eds.)
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institute Press,
Washington and London, 1991, pp.43-56.
Reesa Grossberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, Thinking about exhibitions, Routledge,
London and New York, 1996.
Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist (eds.), Cities on the Move: Muse dArt Contemporain
Bordeaux, 1997.
Elaine Heumann Gurian What is the object of this exercise? Humanities Research, Vol. VIII,
1, 2001, pp.25-36.
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Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi (eds), Unpacking Europe, Nai publishers, Museum Boijmans
Van Beuningen Rotterdam, 2001.
Amanda Heng, Working as a Woman Artist and Making Projects with a Female Focus, in
Caroline Turner and Morris Low (eds.), Beyond the Future: Papers from the Conference of the Third
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Brisbane, 10-12 September, 1999, Queensland Art
Gallery, 1999, pp. 46-48.
Elaine Heumann Gurian What is the object of this exercise? Humanities Research, Vol. VIII,
1, 2001, pp.25-36.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, A useful past for the present, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge,
London and New York, Routledge, 1992, pp. 191-215.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Chapter 7: Language and texts and Chapter 8: Museums: ideal
learning environments, in Museums and their visitors, Routledge, 1994.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Counting visitors or visitors who count? in Robert Lumley ed.,
The Museum time-machine: putting cultures on display, Routledge, London and New York, 1988.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill ed., Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, London and New York,
Routeldge, 1992.
Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and their visitors, Routledge, Chapter Seven Language and
texts, Chapter Eight Museums: ideal learning environments 1994.
Binghui Huangfu (ed.), Text and Subtext: Contemporary Art and Asian Women Artists,
Earl Lu gallery, Singapore, 2000, pp. 165-176.
International Council of Museums (ICOM) www.icom.museum
International Council of Museums (ICOM) Code of Ethics for Museums,
http://icom.museum/ethics_rev_engl.html
Institut fr Auslandsbeziehungen http://www.ifa.de/links/kunst/ebiennalen.htm
This is the website of the German Government agency for visual arts exhibitions abroad. It
contains one of the most up-to-date lists of current and forthcoming periodic exhibitions,
including administrators, curators and websites.
International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship
Japan Foundation, Alternatives 2005: Contemporary art spaces in Asia, Tankosha Publishing Co.,
Ltd, 2004.
Japan Foundation, Asia in Transition: representation and identity, The Japan Foundation 30th
Anniversary International Symposium 2002, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2002.

Ivan Karp Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism, I. Karp and S.D. Lavine, S. D.
1991. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institution, U.S,
pp. 1-9.
Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington and London, 1991.
Ivan Karp and Fred Wilson, Constructing the Spectacle of Culture in Museums, in Reesa
Grossberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, Thinking about exhibitions, Routledge,
London and New York, 1996.
Ivan Karp, Steven D. Lavine and Christine Mullen Kreamer eds., Museums and Communities:
The Politics of Public Culture, Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Gaynor Kavanagh ed., Museum Langauages: Objects and Texts, Leicester University Press,
Leicester, 1991.
SunJung Kim, Exchanges in Contemporary Art in CIMAM SEOUL 2004, CIMAM,
ICOM, 2005, pp.54-62.
Anne Kirker, The Extended Matrix, in Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change:
Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Press, 2005, pp. 297-309.
Anne Kirker, Introduction, Special Interest Group Lunch: Women Artists and Curators, in
Caroline Turner and Morris Low (eds.), Beyond the Future: Papers from the Conference of the Third
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art Brisbane, 10-12 September, 1999, Queensland Art
Gallery, 1999, pp. 39-40.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Confusing Pleasures, in George E. Marcus & Fred R.Myers,
The traffic in culture: refiguring art and anthropology, University of California Press,
Berkeley, 1995.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Objects of ethnography, in Ivan Karp and Steven .D.
Lavine, Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington and London,1991.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, University
of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1998.
Rosalind Krauss, The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum, October, 54:3-17.
Richard Kurin, Museums and Intangible Heritage: Culture Dead or Alive?, ICOM News Vol.
57, 4, pp.7-9.
Timothy Landers, Jackie McAllister, Catsou Roberts, Benjamin Weil and Marek Wieczorek,
The Desire of the Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992.

Ria Lavrijsen ed., Cultural Diversity in the Arts: Art, Art Policies, and the Facelift of Europe,
Amsterdam Royal Tropical Institute, 1992.
Penelope Layland & Donald Horne, Museums: An Argument with their own Society, National
Centre for Australian Studies, Clayton, Vic., 1994.
Harrie Leyten and Bibi Damen eds., Art, Antrhopology and the Modes of Re-presentation: Museums
and Non-Western Art, Amsterdam, Royal Tropical Institute, 1993.
Timothy W. Luke, Shows of Force: Power, Poltiics, and Ideology in Art Exhibtions, Duke University
Press, Durham and London, 1993.
Robert Lumley ed., The Museum time-machine: putting cultures on display, Routledge, London and
New York, 1988.
Sharon MacDonald, The politics of display: museums, science, culture, Routledge, New York, 1997.
Marie C Malaro, On Trusteeship and Why Ethics, Museum Governance: Mission, Ethics, Policy,
Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, pp. 3-15, 16-21.
Marie C Malaro, Museum Governance: Mission, Ethics, Policy, Washington and London,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
George E. Marcus & Fred R.Myers, The traffic in culture: refiguring art and anthropology, University
of California Press, Berkeley, 1995.
Iain McCalman, Museum and Heritage management in the new Economy, Humanities
Research, Vol. VIII, No 1, 2001, pp. 5-15.
Timothy Mitchell, Orientalism and the Exhibtionary Order, in Donald Preziosi ed., The Art
of Art History: A Critical Antholgy, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1998.
Damon Moon, Guess Whos Coming to Dinner? Some Observations on Trans-cultural
Curation, in Hugh ONeill and Tim Lindsey, AWAS!, Melbourne: Indonesian Arts Society,
1999, pp.11-15.
Gerardo Mosquera, Some Problems in Transcultural Curating, in Jean Fisher (ed.), Global
Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press/inIVA, London, 1994.
Bernice Murphy Re-envisioning ICOM: Tasks for Institutional Change, ASPAC-ICOM
September 2000,Vol. 1 and 2.
Muse Quai Branly Paris (http://www.quaibranly.fr/sommaire.php3?id_rubrique=20&R=2)
Nikos Papagiardis Hybridity and ambivalence in CIMAM Seoul 2004 CIMAM, ICOM,
2005m pp. 18-29.

Alan Peacock and Ilde Rizzo, Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies, Dordrecht and Boston,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
Susan M. Pearce, Museums, Objects, and Collections: A Cultural Study, Leicester University Press,
Leicester, 1992; rep. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1993, pp.232-5.
Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University (http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/human.html).
Apinan Poshyananda, Roaring Tigers, Desperate Dragons in Transition, in Contemporary Art
in Asia: Traditions /Tensions, Asia Society Galleries, New York 1996, pp. 23-53.
Apinan Poshyananda, The Future: Post-Cold War, Postmodernism, Postmarginalia (Playing
with Slippery Lubricants) in Caroline Turner (ed.), Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of
Asia and the Pacific , University of Queensland Press, 1993.
Positions, East Asia cultures critique, Special Issue Intersections: Issues in Contemporary Art,
Guest Editor Joan Kee, Vol 12, No 3, Winter 2004.
Donald Preziosi, The Art of Art History, in Donald Preziosi ed., The Art of Art History: A
Critical Antholgy, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1998.
Proceedings of 1999 Smithsonian-UNESCO meeting on Safeguarding Traditional Cultures.
Jennifer Radbourne and Margaret Fraser, Arts Management: A Practical Guide, St Leonards,
Allen & Unwin, 1996.
Raiji Kuroda, Practice of Exhibitions in Global Society for Asians, by Asians, and Some
Associated, in Jean Fisher & Institute of International Visual Arts. (eds), Global visions:
towards a new internationalism in the visual arts, Kala Press in association with the Institute of
International Visual Arts, London, 1994.
Niranjan Rajah, Towards a Southeast Asian Paradigm: From Distinct National Modernisms
To An Integrated Regional Support for Art, in ASEAN Committee on Culture and
Information & Singapore Art Museum (eds.), 36 Ideas from Asia: Contemporary South-East Asian
Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2002, pp.26-37.
Mari-Carmen Ramirez, Brokering Identities: art curators and the politics of cultural
representation, in Reesa Grossberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, Thinking about
exhibitions, Routledge, London and New York, 1996.
Mari-Carmen Ramirez, Constellations: Toward a Radical Questioning of Dominant
Curatorial Models, Art Journal, Vol 59, No 1, 2000.
Danielle Rice, Museum education embracing uncertainty, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, March
1995, pp. 15-20.
Mary Nooter Roberts et.al., Exhibtion-ism: Museums and African Art, Museum for African Art,
New York, 1994.
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Irit Rogoff, Hit and Run Museums and Cultural Difference, Art Journal, Fall, 2002, pp.6373.
Chaitanya Sambrani, Edge of Desire: Recent Art from India (exhibition Catalogue), Asia
Society, New York 2005.
T.K. Sabapathy, Thoughts on an International exhibition on Southeast Asian Contemporary
Art, in ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information & Singapore Art Museum (eds.), 36
Ideas from Asia: Contemporary South-East Asian Art, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2002.
Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff eds., Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles,
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1994.
Terry Smith, Biennales in the conditions of contemporaneity, Art & Australia, vol. 42, no.
3, Autumn 2005, pp. 40615. See the same issue for reviews by Sally Breen on the 2004
Bienal de So Paulo, pp. 38687, and John Clark on the 2004 Gwangju, Busan and Shanghai
Biennales, pp. 38891.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival (http://www.folklife.si.edu).
Tatehata Akira A Trojan horse? Multiculturalism in International Art Exhibitions' in Asia
in Transition, Japan Foundation Forum, 2002, pp. 309-316.
Third Text: Third world perspectives on contemporary art & culture, Routledge, London.
Nicholas Thomas, Contemporary Art and the Limits of Globalisation, in Caroline Turner
and Rhana Devenport (eds.), The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, exhibition
catalogue, 1996, pp. 17-18.
Caroline Turner, paper Cultural Transformations in the Asia-Pacific (comparing the AsiaPacific Triennial and the Fukuoka Triennale) delivered at the Conference Our Modernities:
Positioning Asian Art Now, Singapore, February, 2004. See the following website:
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/conf2004/asianart.htm.
Caroline Turner (ed.), Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, Pandanas
Press, 2005.
Caroline Turner, review Imagined Workshop, IIAS Newsletter, November 2002, p. 46.
Caroline Turner, Linking past and future: cultural exchanges and cross-cultural engagements
in four Asian museums, Humanities Research, Vol IX, 1, 2002, pp.13-28.
http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/publications/hr/issue1_2002/print.htm.
Caroline Turner (ed.), Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, University
of Queensland Press, 1993.

Caroline Turner and Nancy Sever (eds.), Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, Drill Hall
Gallery and Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 2003.
UNESCO website http://www.unesco.org/.
UNESCO: World Culture Report 2000: Cultural Diversity, Conflict and Pluralism, UNESCO
Publishing, Paris, 2000.
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/asia/jpn/english.htm (this website contains very
useful information on art museums, events, happenings and links).
Lorenzo Veracini and Adrian Muckle, Reflections of Indigenous History inside the National
Museum of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and outside of New Caledonia Centre
Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou, The Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, 20,12,
2002, http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/histry/articles/veracini_muckle.htm.
Brian Wallis, Selling Nations, Art in America, Vol 79 (Sept 1991), pp.84-91.
Jen Webb, Art in a Globalised State, in Caroline Turner (ed.) Art and Social Change:
Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Press, 2005, pp. 30-43.
Jen Webb, The Asia-Pacific Triennial: Synthetics in the making (with Tony Schirato),
Continuum 14/3 (Special issue: Synthetics), November 2000, pp. 349-58.
Stephen E. Weil, The museum and the public, in Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol.
16, No. 3, pp. 257-271.
Stephen E. Weil, Rethinking the Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.,
1990.
Stephen E. Weil and Earl F Cheit, The Well-managed Museum, Weil, Stephen E., Rethinking
the Museum and Other Meditations, Washington and London, Smithsonian Institution Press,
1990, pp. 69-72.
W. Richard West, American museums in the 21st Century, Humanities Research, Vol. IX, No
1, 2002, pp. 57-62. http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/publications/hr/issue1_2002/article06.htm
Fred Wilson, The Silent Message of the Museum, in Jean Fisher (ed.), Global Visions: Towards a
New Internationalism in the Visual Arts, Kala Press/inIVA, London, 1994.
Andrea Witcomb, On the side of the object: an alternative approach to debates about ideas,
objects and museums, Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 383-399.
Lee Yong Woo, Globalism and the vanity of its system, Asia in Transition, Japan Foundation
Forum, 2002, pp.292-308.
Rizki A. Zailani, Notes on a common language of comparison in international art events, in
Interpellation: cp open biennale 2003, Jakarta: CP Foundation, 2003, pp. 29-35.
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SEE ALSO CATALOGUES OF THE SHANGHAI, SYDNEY, SAO PAULO,

HAVANA, GWANGJU AND BANGLADESH BIENNALES AND INDIAN AND
YOKOHAMA TRIENNALES

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Art Monthly, Special Issue on Pacific Art, September 1999.
Australia Council for the Arts, www.ozco.gov.au. This has information on Australian
participation in the Venice Biennale and other international exhibitions.
Glen St J. Barclay Geopolitical Changes in Asia and the Pacific, in Caroline Turner (ed.) Art
and Social Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific , Pandanus Press, 2005, pp. 14-29.
Christine Clark (ed) Echoes of Home: memory and mobility in recent austral-asian art, Museum of
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Caroline Turner and Rhana Devenport (eds.), Papers from the Conference of the Second Asia-Pacific
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Margo Neale, A Pacific Story, Screw the Rim: We live in the Basin, in Caroline Turner and
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An excellent set of bibliographies on Pacific issues based on courses on Pacific culture at the
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Pat Hoffie, A new tide turning: Australia in the region 1993-2003', in Caroline Turner (ed.),
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Queensland Art Gallery, The First Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, ex cat,
Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 1993.

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Queensland Art Gallery, The Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, ex cat,
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Queensland Art Gallery, Beyond the future: the third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
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Charles Green, Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Art Journal,
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Caroline Turner and Morris Low (eds), Beyond the future: papers from the conference of the
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Jen Webb, The Asia-Pacific Triennial: Synthetics in the making (with Tony
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Dawn Casey, Case Study: The National Museum of Australia Humanities Research,
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Dawn Casey Art and Politics at the National Museum of Australia, unpublished
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Graeme Davison, National Museums in a Global Age: Observations abroad and
reflections at home in D. McIntyre, and K. Wehner (eds.), National Museums:
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