AUSTRALIAN ARTS PROFESSIONALS TO ASIA CAITLIN MACKENZIE & GABRIEL COMERFORD (QLD) RIMBUN DAHAN, KUANG, MALAYSIA Caitlin is a dance practitioner working in performance, installation and choreography, and is the Co-founder of MakeShift Dance Collective. Gabriel is an independent dance performer, choreographer and teacher. During their residency at Rimbun Dahan, located on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, the collaborative duo researched Gabriel’s Malaysian heritage and embedded themselves in their studio to experiment and take risks in their practice. The pair performed at DanceBox (Kuala Lumpur), the Melaka Arts and Performance Festival (Melaka), and the Asia Pacific Impro! Festival (Selangor). Caitlin and Gabriel collaborated with local Chinese-Malaysian musician, Alubakhan Chen, to develop a full-length interdisciplinary performance, combining contemporary dance with the wide variety of instruments within Chen’s musical vocabulary. SUPPORTED BY ARTS QUEENSLAND AND THE AUSTRALIA-MALAYSIA INSTITUTE Caitlin in the studio at Rimbun Dahan – the beginning seed of the work Uncommon Ground.
ALAN CARTER (WA) SHANGHAI WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION, SHANGHAI, CHINA Alan Carter’s debut crime novel, PRIME CUT won the prestigious Ned Kelly Crime Writing Award in 2011 for Best First Fiction and was also shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Debut Dagger Award in 2010. At the Shanghai Writers’ Association (SWA), Alan researched and drafted his third crime fiction novel, set partly in and around Shanghai. He was one of eight International writers invited to participate in the Shanghai Writers Festival, the others being from Belgium, Ireland, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, Cuba and India. During his residency Alan provided talks and readings at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Fudan University and Si’nan Literature House. His presence in the festival attracted articles in the Shanghai Daily, Global Times and Shanghai News.
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Above left: Jess Johnson, Tokyo Wonder Site studio, 2013 Above right: Reading and seminar on the theme of Breath at Shanghai Writers Festival. Right to left: Denyse Woods (Ireland), Alan Carter (Australia), Anjali Joseph (India), and festival moderators.
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JESS JOHNSON (VIC) TOKYO WONDER SITE, JAPAN
2014
Jess Johnson’s drawing and installation practice is inspired by themes of science fiction, mythological cosmology and comic books. Her three month residency at Tokyo Wonder Site provided invaluable stimuli for deeper examinations into various Japanese sub-cultures including Manga, alternative art scenes and independent publishing. Jess produced a substantial new series of drawings during her residency which have since been shown in the prestigious Primavera 2013 exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria. SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA AND THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
KYLE PAGE & AMBER HAINES (SA) KRITI GALLERY, VARANASI, INDIA Kyle Page and Amber Haines hold solo and collaborative practices as dancers and choreographers. The pair joined Australian Dance Theatre in 2009. At Kriti Gallery in Varanasi Kyle and Amber hosted workshops at 5678 Dance Academy and at the Saraswati Education Centre for street and slum children. Kyle and Amber presented an installation piece where they floated the set of their work, Syncing Feeling, along the ghats on a double decker boat. They premiered the performance of the same work at Kriti Gallery, followed by feedback and evaluation sessions. SUPPORTED BY ARTS SA
KIEREN SANDERSON (NT) CEMETI ART HOUSE, YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA Kieren Sanderson is an arts manager, producer, instigator and curator. Personal and social memory, history, language, public and private space and identity inspire her work. In 2012 Kieren undertook a self-devised professional development placement at the Australian High Commission in Delhi to assist in the delivery of the Australian cultural festival, Oz Fest India 2012. Following on from her time in India, Kieren spent her residency in Yokyakarta developing and launching a website, presentation and exhibition called the Di Sana Project. The Di Sana project is a transcontinental, multi-platform exchange across India, Indonesia and Australia. The Di Sana Project website acts as a virtual repository for creative dialogue, participation and collaboration: www.disanaproject.com.
PILAR MATA DUPONT (WA) GOYANG ART STUDIO, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, KOREA Pilar Mata Dupont is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in photography and film. Her work uses storytelling to re-imagine collected memories, histories and mythologies. It investigates the genre of magic realism as a device to explore the effects of colonialism, nationalism and militarised societies. At Goyang Art Studio, Pilar created a short video work titled The Embrace (이상적인 포옹), which deals with issues of reunification between South and North Korea. The work has since been exhibited at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in Perth, Goyang Studio Gallery in Korea and the New Material Art Fair, Miami Beach, US. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA AND THE AUSTRALIAKOREA FOUNDATION
SUPPORTED BY ARTS NT AND THE AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA INSTITUTE Top: Kieren Sanderson, Di Sana Project , 2014 Left: Kyle Page and Amber Haines performing Syncing Feeling, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi. Right: Production photo filming The Embrace. Left to right: Lim Sora, Choi Moon, Lee Seongtaek, Lee Minjoon, Lee Jonghyeok. Photo: Pilar Mata Dupont.
Front cover: Kenji Uranishi, Sanctuary, 2013, installation made of slab built porcelain with inlay and coloured glaze
Back cover: Jessica Dare, Conceptual flowering plant series, 2013, lampwork glass Photo: Grant Hancock
2014 ASIALINK ARTS NEWS EDITORIAL “On the Ground and In the Know”: Valuing arts residencies in Asia It gives me great pleasure to introduce the 2014 Asialink Arts Residents and highlight some of the residency achievements during 2013. The development of ‘international capability’ is as important for the cultural sector as it is for any other sector of the economy and society. Recent research undertaken by Asialink Arts in partnership with Arts Victoria has highlighted the fact that successful cultural engagement with Asia requires a long term commitment and substantial investment. Likewise, long term relationships require repeat visitation, people-to-people communication and opportunities for two-way exchange and collaboration*. Recent international studies of best practice and contemporary trends in international cultural exchange reiterate these points. There should really be no surprises here as reviews of success factors for Australian business in Asia also point to the need to build relationships to operate effectively in a completely different environment and management paradigm. For the cultural sector, arts residencies can play an important role in developing long term relationships and building knowledge, skills and networks for artists and arts managers to work confidently in Asia and with Asian partners. During 2013, the Asialink arts residency program continued to evolve and explore new models and opportunities for cultural exchange through its ‘Laboratory’ program. It established a new reciprocal residency partnership between IASKA in Western
Australia and 1. Shanthiroad, Bangalore in India, and we worked with the Victorian College of the Arts as a new host partner in Melbourne. A major highlight was the participation of the Asialink residency program in the 2013 Setouchi Triennale through the Fukatake House Asia Art Platform that hosted both the artist Jackson Slattery and chef Andrew McConnell ‘in residence’ on the island of Shodoshima in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. The residency program is made possible through the ongoing support of many partners. In particular, I would like to thank the Australia Council for the Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and all State and Territory governments as well as the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. A number of partners have increased their support for 2014 demonstrating their commitment and recognition of the value of arts residencies in Asia.
This round we received 286 applications to the program nationwide, and were able to allocate 30 residencies to Asia, based on available funding. In 2014 the Asialink Arts Residency Program collapsed art form areas to open up the round to practitioners working in and across all areas of practice. This step was initiated as a result of sector feedback. In another first, Asialink will host a one-day Asia Capability Orientation at Asialink’s offices in Melbourne on 20 February. This will formally welcome all 2014 arts residents to the program and enable them to meet each other as well as Asialink Arts Residency Alumni. The orientation day is aimed at preparing
Left to right: Past Asialink Arts Resident Chris Cobilis (Taipei, 2011) in concert with Peiju Lien, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2013
Lesley Alway, Director, Asialink Arts
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*On the Ground and In the Know: The Victoria – Asia Cultural Engagement Research Report 2013 is available at www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/artsresearchreport_vic
ISHU HAN (JAPAN) VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
PEIJU LIEN (TAIWAN)
Born in Shanghai, Ishu Han now lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. During his three month residency at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Han examined Chinese migration to Australia, the discovery of gold in Victoria during the 1850s, and the legacy of these histories. Drawing from this research and an experience of place, Ishu Han developed the exhibition Study Country, which investigated notions of ‘identity’ in contemporary art. The exhibition, comprising a soundscape, photographic triptych and installation piece of 200 collected and hand-painted rocks, was exhibited at VCA’s Student Gallery. An abbreviated form of the exhibition was later exhibited in the foyer of Arts Victoria.
Based in Taipei, Peiju Lien is a contemporary musician of the Pipa – an ancient Chinese stringed instrument. A composer, producer and performer, she has worked across many genres including traditional Chinese music, Chinese opera, world and pop music. During her time at the Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), Peiju collaborated with local musicians on a number of contemporary compositions and new arrangements. This resulted in the farewell concert Journey on the road: Peiju and her new friends, performed at FAC. The diverse range of musicians involved in this unusual musical and cultural exchange included double bassist Gavin Shoesmith, Japanese didgeridoo player Sanshi, percussionist Aranuchala and local experimental musician Chris Cobilis, a former Asialink Resident to Taiwan.
2014 RESIDENCY PROGRAM INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Welcome and congratulations to Asialink’s new 2014 Arts Residents. We look forward to working with you to realise your residency goals.
Ishu Han, Study Country, Arts Victoria foyer, Melbourne 2013.
the ‘next generation’ of arts leaders to develop the skills, knowledge, networks and experience to work effectively and with confidence in Asia. 2014 will see Asialink Arts Residents taking up exchange opportunities throughout Asia, including at new host partners Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space in Thailand, Kyoto Arts Centre, Japan and cherrycake studios, Malaysia. For the first time we will have arts residents in Myanmar and Turkey. The Arts Residency Laboratory, launched in 2012 to trial innovative models of cultural and artistic exchange, continues in 2014 with two new models. Kerjasama: Indigenous arts residencies in regional Australia and Indonesia will see Indigenous artist Reko Rennie undertake a residency at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. In return, Indonesian artist
Akiq Abdul Wahid will spend three months with Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring in Alice Springs. The second model in the Laboratory will be tested by Queensland artist Chris Bennie, who will spend time with Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, engaging with their founding research on the concept of Microresidencies – small-scale, grass roots residencies that value ongoing relationships and offer a deeper, more engaged alternative amidst increasing interest in arts residencies worldwide.
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Asialink will continue our Reciprocal Residency program this year, adding Singapore’s The Art Incubator to the mix of host partners. Victorian Curator and Writer, Kyla McFarlane will trade places in Singapore with Singaporean multidisciplinary artist Angie Seah, who will undertake her residency at the Victorian College of the Arts. Eliza Roberts, Arts Residencies Manager, Asialink
RESIDENCY LABORATORY FUKUTAKE HOUSE ASIA ART PLATFORM: SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2013, JAPAN Together with six Asian arts residency centres, Asialink participated in the Fukutake House Asia Art Platform, Setouchi Triennale, Japan. The Setouchi Triennale is an international arts festival held over 12 islands in the Seto Inland Sea. It aims to encourage visitation to the islands, which are losing their unique characteristics due to declining economies and an ageing population. Based on attendance figures, this use of art for social change is working. In 2013 more than 1, 070,000 people attended the festival. The Fukutake House Asia Art Platform utilised art and food to question, ‘How have we, Asian regions, faced the globalisation?’ Each participating country was asked to respond to this theme by way of an artist residency and exhibition; a chef workshop; and symposium. Asialink invited Jackson Slattery and Andrew McConnell as artist and chef in-residence respectively.
The site of this residency was poignant – an abandoned elementary school that reminded us of the plight of the island where the average age is 65. As a universal symbol for future ambition, the school was a monument to the predicament of the island, but at the same time, it served to re-energise the local community through its reincarnation as the venue for this platform. Fukutake House Asia Art Platform involved wide-spread collaboration over an intense period, resulting in real and ongoing friendships. It was a residency model that embraced art and food as universal mechanisms that transcend cultural and language barriers, to discuss a global issue. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION, THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, TOKYO AND THE FUKUTAKE FOUNDATION, JAPAN Left to right: Board Member of the Australia-Japan Foundation Melanie Brock, Australian Ambassador to Japan Bruce Miller, Artist Jackson Slattery, Curator Eliza Roberts, Director, Asialink Arts Lesley Alway. Photo: Kanagawa Shingo Jackson Slattery, Monument Within A Sculpture: Part 1, maple plywood, acrylic paint, fibreglass, balsa wood, resin and found vase. Photo: Kanagawa Shingo
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Left to right: Executive Chef Andrew McConnell and Chef John Paul Twomey, Chef Workshop with local Shodoshima participants. Photo: Eliza Roberts
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BRITT GUY (NT) TINY TOONES, PHNOM PENH
KATIE LEE (VIC) HYPHEN, YOGYAKARTA
KENJI URANISHI (QLD) HAPPY LUCKY SITE & KOU RAKU GAMA, ARITA
DAVID BERTHOLD (QLD) W!LD RICE, SINGAPORE
Britt Guy is a producer, curator, community arts and youth worker who specialises in emerging artist development and mentoring, experimental arts programming, and community cultural development projects with and for young people. She has initiated a number of exchange programs between Australia and Slovenia, Croatia and Cambodia. She has worked with not for profit and government agencies, festivals and events locally and overseas. At Tiny Toones, a community development, education and creative arts organisation, Britt will establish an exchange program between Phnom Penh and Darwin. The program will provide opportunities for local community cultural development workers, B*boy and beats artists and young people.
Katie Lee graduated from RMIT with a MA Visual Arts in 2009 and has also studied postgraduate education and urban planning. Lee’s practice is interdisciplinary and is often an exploration of the physical and psychological consequences of the built environment. Her sculptural installations incorporate the performative, balancing the visual language of institutions with a sideways humour that challenges their function. Lee has exhibited widely in various Asian countries including Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. She has been a board member of Melbourne artist run spaces including Conical Inc. and West Space. At Hyphen in Yogyakarta, Katie will collaborate with Indonesian artist Handwirman Saputra, who runs workshops teaching artists to develop an interdisciplinary practice.
Japanese born artist Kenji Uranishi works predominantly with porcelain - hand building translucent white, architecturally inspired objects. He draws inspiration from the surrounding built and social environment and is influenced by people’s interaction with architecture and nature. Kenji’s works feature in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Newcastle Regional Gallery and Caboolture Regional Art Gallery. Kenji will undertake a residency at Happy Lucky Site, a project directed by the fifth generation head of the Kou Raku Company in Arita, Saga Prefecture - widely considered the birthplace of Japanese porcelain. He will collaborate with the ceramic studio to utilise traditional production techniques and facilities that encourage experimentation.
David Berthold is one of Australia’s most prominent theatre directors and has directed for most of Australia’s major theatres companies, as well as internationally. He is currently the Artistic Director of La Boite Theatre Company. He was the Festival Director of World Interplay 2007, the world’s largest festival of young playwrights and in 2013 curated a stream of independent theatre for the Brisbane Festival. Through a self-initiated residency at W!ld Rice, David will collaborate with Founder and Artistic Director, Ivan Heng, to develop his commissioned play. He will direct readings of Australian plays that resonate with a Singaporean audience and will work with students and staff at La Salle College of the Arts.
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KEG DE SOUZA (NSW) KUNCI CULTURAL STUDIES CENTER, YOGYAKARTA
KOREA
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China
GUS CLUTTERBUCK (SA) THE POTTERY WORKSHOP, JINGDEZHEN
Gus Clutterbuck is a ceramicist, community arts worker, and educator. He has exhibited internationally in Croatia, India and China. Gus was awarded Special Prize for his work Plastic Geology in the Gyeonggi International CeraMIX Biennale, Incheon, South Korea, 2011. He has been artist in residence in schools across Australia, including remote aboriginal communities in South Australia. Clutterbuck’s practice examines perceptions toward remote desert communities. By casting ceramic forms from discarded objects collected in the desert, his work contemplates the disjuncture between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures. During a self-initiated residency at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, Gus will base himself in the historical centre of Chinese porcelain and the nucleus of hundreds of skilled porcelain artists. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL
JULIENNE VAN LOON (WA) PEKING UNIVERSITY, BEIJING
Julienne van Loon is a prominent Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her first novel, Road Story, won the prestigious Australian Vogel Award and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book category (Asia and Pacific Region). Her non-fiction appears regularly in Griffith Review. Julienne’s most recent book is Harmless (Fremantle Press 2013), a novella set between Australia and Thailand and based on a selection of Jataka tales from the Theravada Buddhist tradition. She will use her residency at Peking University to commence a new work of long fiction that reinterprets several traditional stories of early Buddhist nuns. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL
India
DANIEL EDWARDS (ACT) 1.SHANTHIROAD, BANGALORE
Daniel Edwards is a Canberra born textile and installation artist exploring elements of culture and gender in craft practices. He is the Head Weaver of the collaborative Canberra 100 Community Tapestry. Working with fibre, cloth and other easily accessible domestic items, Daniel investigates the possibilities that occur when gender, culture and technology intertwine. Daniel is of Anglo-Indian heritage but has never been to India before. At 1. Shanthiroad in Bangalore, Daniel will explore notions of identity through patterns, fibres and textiles. He will collaborate with local textile artists in India, and share his new found skills and experiences on return to Canberra. SUPPORTED BY ARTS ACT
VINISHA MULANI (WA) KOCHI MUZIRIS BIENNALE, KERALA Vinisha Mulani is a creative producer and facilitator who has worked in a number of arts organizations throughout Asia and the USA. In Australia she has worked with the Footscray Community Arts Centre, Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, and was the creative producer of a Department of Human Services film which outlined the importance of the arts when working with diverse communities. After volunteering at the first Kochi Muziris Biennale in 2012, Vinisha will return on her Asialink residency to work in the media team and on the Art and Medicine Symposium, which presents the benefits of the arts in a medical context. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA
Keg de Souza is an interdisciplinary visual artist working across video, artist’s books, printmaking, dialogical projects, inflatable architecture, installation, and drawing. For the last ten years she has been selfpublishing her own hand-bound books and zines under the name All Thumbs Press. One of the key themes in Keg’s work is an investigation of spatial politics, influenced by her formal educational background in architecture and informal squatting one. At self-initiated host KUNCI, a not for profit organisation that focuses on research based practice, Keg will create an inflatable ghost house with residents of the Ratmakan and Jagalan kampungs, which are built on former graveyards. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW
LUCAS ABELA (NSW) YES/NO KLUB, YOGYAKARTA
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MICHAEL HORNBLOW (VIC) WAYANG UKUR, YOGYAKARTA
Michael’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates performance, video, installation and creative direction, alongside academic research in media production, philosophy, and architecture. He has presented and curated work in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Africa, Canada, and Europe. Recently, Michael was Creative Producer and Video Artist for an Australia-Indonesia collaboration of Grobak Padi at Melbourne Festival 2012, and ISEA 2013 in Sydney. At Sahabat Wayang Ukur, an organisation focused on the synergies between traditional and contemporary artforms, Michael will develop new participatory methods for interaction and will further his research into animist phenomena and urban flux. SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA
Japan JAY KOCHEL (ACT) KYOTO ARTS CENTRE, KYOTO Jay Kochel is a Canberra based artist and holds a PhD in Visual Art from the Australian National University (ANU). His research examined magical and fetish artefacts in collections such as the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Quai Branly Museum, Paris. Prior to completing an undergraduate in sculpture and interactive media he completed a BA Anthropology/Law. Jay was the recipient of the Anthony Forge Prize for Anthropology, ANU Honour’s Scholarship, ANU CASS PhD Scholarship and Neil Roberts Award. Jay is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Visiting Artist Fellow in the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. In Kyoto Jay will examine sacred Shinto sites and extract the essences of places through the collection of scents, sounds and images. He aims to create an olfactory catalogue as a means of exploring immaterial aspects of aesthetics. SUPPORTED BY ARTS ACT AND THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
KEN & JULIA YONETANI (NSW) UNIVERSITY OF RYUKUS, OKINAWA
Indonesia JOSHUA LOWE (TAS) INSTITUT SENI INDONESIA, PADANGPANJANG, WEST SUMATRA Joshua Lowe is a Tasmanian born dancer, choreographer and arts administrator. Most recently Joshua worked for Tasmania’s flagship dance company, Tasdance, as co-choreographer for the 2013 education performance project, and the in-school residency program, DanceNET. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Joshua formed his own project-based youth dance company, DRILL Performance Company in 2007. Joshua works extensively with youth, including Program Producer for Yellow Wheel in Melbourne, and Stompin’ in Launceston. In 2010, Joshua was awarded the Regional Arts Australia Volunteer Award for Outstanding Contribution, and had his work Fy nominated for an Australian Dance Award. At Institut Seni Indonesia, a public university located in West Sumatra, Joshua will replicate the Tasdance Education Performance Project within a local context.
SHELLEY McCUAIG (VIC) ESPLANADE – THEATRES ON THE BAY, SINGAPORE
TERENCE JAENSCH (VIC) SAII: MOONJI CULTURAL INSTITUTE, KOREA
Terence Jaensch is a poet, actor and monologist. His first book of poetry Buoy was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. In 2004 he was awarded an Asialink residency to Singapore where, with poet Cyril Wong, he co-authored the volume Excess Baggage & Claim. His work has been published in journals nationally and in the US, Germany, Japan, Singapore and India. His poems have been translated into Korean, Bengali and interpreted as classical Indian dance. His most recent collection of poetry, Shark was launched in July 2013. In Korea, Terence will undertake Sharkboy Seoul, a series of call and response poems based on Korean Sijo form. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION
Initially classed as a turntablist, Lucas Abela’s work rarely resembled anything in the field. As an experimental sound and installation artist, he has been known to extract sound from everyday objects including shards of glass and sewing machine motors. Recent works Vinyl Rally and Pinball Pianola highlight his desire to create interactive installations for musical play. In Yogyakarta Lucas will build Gamelan Wizard, a musical instrument/pinball machine hybrid. Other sound makers will come into play to make up the Gamelan Orchestra. Lucas will conduct a performance at Yes/No Klub’s monthly performance night at the Yogyakarta National Museum and will collaborate with local musicians and instrument builders to record an album.
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Shelley McCuaig has extensive experience in producing arts events and festivals, and is currently Executive Producer at Insite Arts. Prior to this she was Executive Producer at Chamber Made Opera, and spent three years as Associate Producer with Insite Arts working on MONA FOMA (2011-2013), Hamer Hall Re-Opening Concerts (Arts Centre Melbourne, 2012) and Synaesthesia: Music of Colour and Mind (MONA/Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, 2012). Shelley has also worked for Melbourne Writers Festival, Ten Days on the Island and Penguin Australia. At Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Shelley will work with the programming team to realize their calendar of arts and cultural festivals including Pesta Raya and Moonfest. SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA
THAILAND
JESSICA DARE (SA) RUDEE TANCHAROEN OF ATELIER RUDEE, BANGKOK
MALAYSIA
ANDREW REWALD (VIC) CHERRYCAKE STUDIOS, PENANG
Andrew Rewald is a visual artist based in Melbourne. His practice explores the centrality of food and ritual in daily life through cookery and food sharing, with a focus on people, agriculture, local industry, and the pervasive effects of consumerism. Andrew recently completed a series of community engagement residency projects in Iceland, Tasmania and Japan as part of the 2012 Echigo-Tsumari Triennial. In Penang, a region renowned for the diversity of its food and heritage, Andrew will undertake a series of documented performances. He hopes to collaborate with Malaysian artist Roslisham Ismail in nearby Kelantan, who also incorporates food into his artistic practice. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-MALAYSIA INSTITUTE
MYANMAR
MICHELLE AUNG THIN (VIC) NEW ZERO ART SPACE, MYANMAR
Michelle Aung Thin’s first novel, The Monsoon Bride, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards as an unpublished manuscript and won a Readings Foundation/Wheeler Centre Fellowship. She has a PhD in Creative Writing, has published fiction and essays in various journals, and worked in advertising copywriting. Michelle was born in Burma, emigrated to Canada as a young child, and now lives in Melbourne. She will use her time at New Zero Art Space in Myanmar to write about belonging and homeland. This will form her second book about Myanmar and will combine historical and travel writing with personal essay form. SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA
Philippines BRETT McCALLUM (SA) MANILA FRINGE FESTIVAL, MANILA Brett McCallum has over ten years experience as an arts manager and producer, with a focus on arts and community festivals across Australia and the UK. He is interested in the role that festivals play in helping a community to celebrate itself and its culture. Brett will work with Manila Fringe Festival to help them produce the first Fringe Festival to be staged in the Philippines. He brings with him experience from senior roles with Darwin Festival, Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Assembly Theatre in Edinburgh and Soho Theatre, London. SUPPORTED BY ARTS SA
Ken and Julia Yonetani are an artist duo based in the Blue Mountains, NSW. They are represented by Artereal Gallery, Sydney, and GV Art, London. Ken and Julia’s works frequently reference the environmental impacts of natural and man-made disaster. In Okinawa the pair will collaborate with Associate Professor Joji Otaki, who has gained an international reputation for his research documenting the biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the pale grass butterfly. The project will explore pressing questions about the mutation, adaptation and survival of species in the context of extreme environmental alterations.
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Contemporary Jeweller Jessica Dare received a BA Visual Arts (Jewellery) from the Adelaide College of Arts TAFE, South Australia, in 2006. Since 2005 she has privately studied lampworking with national and international glass artists and her practice combines the unique combination of glass and metal smithing. Jessica joined Gray Street Workshop in 2007 and became a partner in April 2010. Her exhibition The Nature of Memory was awarded Best Visual Art in the 2013 Adelaide Fringe Festival, and her works are held in the collections of The National Gallery of Australia and The Art Gallery of South Australia. At Atelier Rudee, Jessica will research local flower markets and the use of flower garlands to inspire new work. SUPPORTED BY ARTS SA
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT (NSW) NE’-NA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, CHIANG MAI
Born in Thailand, Phaptawan trained with her father as a mural painter and has significant experience working in Buddhist temples and public spaces throughout Thailand. In 1996 she relocated to Sydney where she collaborates with multi-ethnic communities and maintains a solo practice. Her works have been shown at Gallery 4A and featured in the 18th Sydney Biennale, 2012. During her residency in Chiang Mai, Phaptawan will realise the exhibition Retold-untold stories. The project will investigate local historical materials and the theme of natural disaster from women’s perspectives. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW
TURKEY CAILTIN FRANZMANN (QLD) TORNA GALLERY, ISTANBUL Caitlin Franzmann’s work is centred around observations of urban environments and the complexity of human experience. She creates architectural interventions and participatory installations to encourage slowness, curiosity and social interaction. Caitlin originally trained as an urban planner and in 2012 completed a BA Fine Arts at Queensland College of Art. She has exhibited at the Institute of Modern Art, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Ryan Renshaw Gallery and as part of OtherFilm Festival, 2012. She is currently the Co-Director of artist run initiative, LEVEL, in Brisbane. At Torna Gallery, an artist-led space in Kadikoy - the Asian side of Istanbul, Cailtin will conduct research, hold an exhibition, and contribute to Torna’s folio magazine. SUPPORTED BY ARTS QUEENSLAND
VIETNAM ANDRÉ DAO (VIC) THE GIOI PUBLISHERS, HANOI
FIONA GAVINO (WA) 98B COLLABORATORY, MANILA Fiona graduated from Charles Darwin University with a BA Visual Arts in 2006 and was selected to exhibit in Hatched at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2007. Her work has toured nationally in exhibitions Momentum (2008-10) and ReCoil (2007-10) and internationally in A Prefix:Re (Japan, 2011) and Fibreface (Indonesia, 2011). In 2012 Fiona was commissioned by London based Blink Films to re-construct an ancient Iraqi basket boat. Fiona works with basket making materials and techniques to create sculpture that explores transcultural themes. At residency space 98B Collaboratory, Fiona will collaborate with local artists and visit rattan furniture makers to study the fabrication of armatures. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA
André Dao’s fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, Crikey, The New Philosopher, The Conversation, Harvest Magazine, The Lifted Brow, Voiceworks, Kill Your Darlings, Arena, and anthologies published by Oxford University Press, Penguin Australia, Wakefield Press and Finch Publishing. He was the winner of Express Media’s Best Non-Fiction Piece in 2012 and a Qantas Spirit Of Youth Award finalist in 2013. Since 2009, André has been the Editor-in-Chief of Right Now, a human rights media organisation for which he was a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Young People’s Medal in 2011. At The Gioi Publishers, Andre will research and develop a novel based on his grandfather’s experience as a political prisoner in Hanoi. SUPPORTED BY THE MALCOLM ROBERTSON FOUNDATION
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MICRORESIDENCE_YOUKOBO ART SPACE
INTENSIVE RESIDENCY
2014 will mark Asialink’s fourth year of facilitating a reciprocal residency between Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and Artspace, Sydney. This year, Asialink introduces a regional collaborative element to this exchange in partnership with Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives (BigCi), located in the Blue Mountains and bordering on Wollemi National Park, NSW.
2014 will mark the first year of a new and exciting partnership between The Art Incubator, Singapore and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), facilitated by Asialink. Singaporean and Melbourne artists will trade places for three months resulting in public outcomes such as an Open Studio, artist talk or exhibition.
2014 will mark Asialink’s fourth year of facilitating a reciprocal residency between Dept. of AIR, Taipei Culture Foundation, and an Australian host organisation, this time the Fremantle Arts Centre. The exchange will occur at different times in the year, to enable the Australian and Taiwanese artist to meet each other in-country and introduce one another to networks, settings and opportunities.
Youkobo Art Space seeks collaborations with arts professionals who share an interest in their founding research on the concept of ‘Microresidencies’. A Microresidence may be described as a small-scale, artist-run, independent, grass roots residency that places importance on responding flexibly to artists’ needs and valuing relationships. With increasing interest in arts residencies worldwide, Microresidencies offer a deeper, more engaged alternative.
The ‘intensive’ residency is the only one-month residency offered by Asialink. It will prove a time of rigorous networking with local and International artists and arts professionals in the community. A public outcome is expected, such as a talk, workshop or small exhibition.
A two and a half month exchange between a Korean and NSW artist will occur simultaneously. In the final two weeks of the three month residency, both artists will come together at BigCi to share their residency experiences.
Kyla McFarlane is a curator and writer, and currently Associate Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne. She holds a PhD in visual culture from Monash University. Recent curatorial projects at CCP include True Self: David Rosetzky Selected Works, 2013, CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things 2012 and Without Words, 2011. She has edited un Magazine and Flash and written extensively on contemporary art since 1996, specialising in lens-based practice. At The Art Incubator in Singapore, Kyla will build on CCP’s existing relationship with its’ Founder and Director, Charmaine Toh.
ANNA TREGLOAN (NSW) GOYANG ART STUDIO, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, SEOUL Designer, director and installation artist Anna Tregloan has toured Australia and worked in Edinburgh, Paris, New York, Prague, London, Kyoto, Malaysia, Belgium, Dublin and Holland. She has been awarded several Greenroom Awards, a Helpman Award, and the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design for Theatre. Anna has worked with the State Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Back to Back, Chunky Move and Circus Oz. Her own company, the Association of Optimism, is interested in researching the limitations of language and alternative models of communications. At Goyang Art Studio, Anna will work on performance piece Sufficiently Breathless and art installation The Breath on my Neck, focusing on Korean cultural relationships with ghosts and haunting. At BigCi Anna will focus her energies on developing a sustainable artistic practice. KOREAN ARTIST YET TO BE SELECTED SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION
KYLA McFARLANE (VIC) THE ART INCUBATOR, SINGAPORE
ANGIE SEAH (SINGAPORE) VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, MELBOURNE Angie Seah’s participatory multidisciplinary practice traverses the mediums of drawing, installation, performance and sculpture. Angie has undertaken residencies and participated in festivals throughout Singapore, and extensively internationally, including Switzerland, Indonesia, Belgium, Romania, Poland, Spain, the Philippines, Macau and Myanmar. In 2013 Angie exhibited the work Conducting memories, an interactive installation piece as part of the Singapore Biennale 2013, If the world changed. Angie’s practice explores human relationships with social environments, through encounters with the ephemeral realm of sound. In Melbourne, Angie will create a site-specific performance piece and installation titled Sacred Soundscapes that investigates what people consider to be sacred elements of their personal soundscapes. SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA
CLAIRE BUSHBY (WA) AIR TAIPEI, TAIPEI Claire Bushby was born in Perth, Western Australia. She graduated with a BA Arts (Visual Arts Honours) from Edith Cowan University in 2005, and is currently completing a MA Arts (Visual Arts) at the same university. She is currently Curator at Heathcote Museum & Gallery in Western Australia and forms one half of collaborative duo Claire². Though based in textiles, Claire’s work explores a range of mediums including painting, drawing, installation and new media. At AIR Taipei, Claire will further her research on multiple authorship, collective production and participatory work.
TING CHAONG WEN (TAIWAN) FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, WA Ting Chaong Wen holds a MA Fine Arts from the Institute of Plastic Arts, Taiwan National University of the Arts. In 2011 Chaong Wen was awarded his third Exhibitions Grant from the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. In 2005 he was selected for the Kaohsiung Arts Awards and in 2004 the Taipei Arts Awards. He has held solo exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan and Germany, and undertaken residencies in Japan, Taiwan and France. Chaong Wen uses the artistic medium of installation to question art and science, and fiction versus imagination. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA AND THE AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL
CHRIS BENNIE (QLD) YOUKOBO ART SPACE, TOKYO Chris Bennie was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. He moved to Australia in 1999 and completed his training at Griffith University. His work has been exhibited extensively in Australian institutions including the Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane; Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Space; and The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the winner of the 2012 Gold Coast Art Prize and the 2013 Swell Sculpture Festival. Chris lectures in Fine Art at Griffith University. Following on from his series Kissing Swans, where Chris transformed two flood-affected caravans from Bundaberg devastated by natural disaster, Chris will develop a body of work that converts everyday objects affected by natural disaster in Japan.
ANNIKA KRISTENSEN (NSW) 3331 ARTS CHIYODA, TOKYO Annika Kristensen is the Exhibition and Project Coordinator at the Biennale of Sydney and Co-Director of independent curatorial initiative Art Proper. Previously the inaugural Nick Waterlow OAM Curatorial Fellow at the Biennale of Sydney, Annika has also held positions at Frieze Art Fair; Artangel and Film and Video Umbrella, London; and Lister Gallery and The West Australian Newspaper, Perth. Annika completed a BA Arts (Communication Studies) at the University of Western Australia, and a MSC Art History, Theory and Display from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. During an intensive one-month residency at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Annika will explore the Yokohama Triennale and give a public program that compares her experience of the Biennale of Sydney to the Yokohama one. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
SUPPORTED BY ARTS QUEENSLAND AND THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION
KERJASAMA_INDIGENOUS AND REGIONAL RESIDENCIES BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND INDONESIA ‘Kerjasama’ or ‘Collaborate’ is a pilot Indigenousfocused Reciprocal Residency, designed to increase understanding of Indigenous artistic traditions and communities in regional Australia and Indonesia. An Indonesian artist will be placed with Artback NT, Alice Springs and an Australian Indigenous artist at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. Residents will be expected to provide a public outcome as part of the residency, and will have the opportunity to develop friendships, partnerships and projects with the local communities and arts centres.
AKIQ ABDUL WAHID (YOGYAKARTA) ARTBACK NT: ARTS DEVELOPMENT AND TOURING, ALICE SPRINGS Akiq Abdul Wahid works across the mediums of photography, video and installation. His practice focuses on how humans face everyday life by way of the technologies and inventions they have created. Akiq is a member of artist collective MES56 in Yogyakarta, and his work has been exhibited extensively internationally and in the 2012 Yogyakarta Biennale XI, Shadow Lines: Indonesia meets India. During his first international arts residency to Alice Springs, Akiq will explore the concept of private and public ‘borders’. He will work with local students and communities to create personal maps of individual borders experienced in everyday life. This will result in a series of photos and video documentation that will be exhibited at Alice Springs experimental art space, Watch This Space. The documentation will become a resource of life in a different community on return to Indonesia.
REKO RENNIE (VIC) CEMETI ART HOUSE, YOGYAKARTA Reko Rennie is an interdisciplinary artist who explores his Aboriginal identity through contemporary mediums. Reko’s art incorporates his association to the Kamilaroi people, using traditional geometric patterning that represents his community. Through his art, Rennie provokes discussion surrounding Indigenous culture and identity in contemporary urban environments. At Cemeti Art House in Yokyakarta, Reko will create an installation piece representing his experiences of ‘initiation’ and ‘ceremony’ from an urban Aboriginal perspective. He will hold a public talk about the representation of symbols and iconography throughout his work. Reko will collaborate with an Indonesian artist to complete some murals and videos that document the process of using street art as a medium to cross cultural boundaries. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PROGRAM, AN INITIATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE AND ARTS NT