Caroline Turner
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Caroline Turner was for nearly ten years co-founder and Project Director of the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery. She also edited the catalogues of the first three Triennials as well as the book Tradition and Change: Contemporary Art of Asia and the Pacific which in 1993 was the first survey ever to appear in English on this subject. As Deputy Director of the Queensland Art Gallery, from 1982 on, she organised and curated many international exhibitions. In 2000, she became Deputy Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. At the same time, she acted as general editor of the journal Humanities Research. In 2009 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) because of her contributions to the visual arts in Australia. In 2010 she began a project on the rise of new cultural networks in Asia.
As editor of the volume Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific, Pandanus Books 2005, she has written a brilliant introduction which she agreed to let us republish here as part of our series of the Monthly Guest authors. Also noteworthy are the important exhibition catalogues which she co-edited in the past years, including Art and Human Rights, 2003, and Thresholds of Tolerance, 2007, or: Recovering Lives: Art and Human Rights, 2008. Her current research, beside the project The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia, includes The Other Within: Visual Culture through indigenous, tribal, minority, ‘subaltern’ and multicultural displays in Asia-Pacific museums today.
