ArtAsiaPacific No.23, 1999

Commentary

24 TOI TOI TOI New Zealand art in Kassel – Louise Garrett

26 TESTING GROUND Artist-run spaces in New Zealand – Stella Brennan

28 TURANDOT Chinoiserie made in China – Francesca Dal Lago

30 NOUMEA-TOKYO The Third Biennale of Contemporary Art – Julie Ewington

33 DEGREES OF SEPARATION A group show in Christchurch – Lara Strongman

35 SPEECHLESS The 1998 Biennale of Sydney – Hannah Fink

38 VELVET DREAMS A film by Sima Urale – Lisa Taouma

40 PROCESS AND POLITICS The fifth Artists’ Regional Exchange – Iola Lenzi

42 MISUNDERSTANDING ART ARX5 and cultural sensitivity – Lee Weng Choy

44 ACTION REPLAY An exhibition of 1970s post-object art – Tony Green

Essays

46 BILL HAMMOND PAINTS NEW ZEALAND – Allan Smith

54 THE END OF IMPROVEMENT In defence of Ava Seymour – Robert Leonard

60 GOING EAST Post-orientalism in contemporary New Zealand art – Richard Dale

66 THEO SCHOON Indonesia and the re-fashioning of the self – Damian Skinner

72 THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE Michael Parekowhai’s riff on representation – Jim and Mary Barr

77 PETER ROBINSON, GORDON WALTERS AND THE CORPORATE KORU – Anna Miles

82 MAORI BAY QUARRY Maori prophets in the work of Colin McCahon – Leigh Davis

90 LOCATING SHANE COTTON – Imants Tillers

Reviews

William McAloon on Jim Speers; Wystan Curnow on Max Gimblett; Justin Paton on Ross T. Smith; Kelly Carmichael on Julian Dashper; Megan Dunn and David Townsend on Judy Darragh; Morris O’Riordan on an indigenous Australian-Indian exhchange; Wystan Curnow on Leigh Davis.