Shifting Gears: Asian Traffic

Asian Traffic was, outside the Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT), one of the most ambitious efforts undertaken in Australia aimed at exploring the multifarious nature of new Asian art and its complex intersection with contemporary Australian culture. Visitors were forced to join the Asian Traffic coming and going from the Asia-Australia Centre in Chinatown, Sydney, and in its ever-changing guises and fluid shifts in direction, the project successfully circumvented any traffic jams.

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Towards Ubuntu: The Way of the South

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Bridget Riley on Bridget Riley

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Bridget Riley

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The New Cosmopolitans

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