2015
RECIPROCAL RESIDENCIES KEVIN PLATT (NSW) AND SEO HAE-YOUNG (KOREA) MMCA RESIDENCY GOYANG, KOREA; ARTSPACE, SYDNEY; AND BIGCI, NSW
RESIDENCY HIGHLIGHTS
AUSTRALIAN ARTS PROFESSIONALS TO ASIA DAVID FINNIGAN (ACT) SIPAT LAWIN ENSEMBLE, MANILA, PHILIPPINES
Kevin Platt’s artistic experimental practice often manifests as non-traditional sculpture and installation, with elements of video and photography. Seo Hae-Young focuses on breaking away from rigid and conventional methods of sculpture. In 2015 Hae-Young and Kevin traded places for 10 weeks between Sydney and Korea, before coming together at BigCi in the Blue Mountains of NSW to share their experiences in one another’s countries. In Korea Kevin researched the methods of artist Bahc Yiso in order to think differently about his own artistic practice. He met and presented to curators and peers and produced work towards an exhibition and open studio event at MMCA Residency Goyang.
On her first overseas trip, Hae-Young interacted with the local community by creating their portraits in clay on the streets of Sydney in a new series titled ‘Street sculpture project: Would you be my model?’ She recorded the process and presented her work at an Open Studio event at BigCi, together with Kevin Platt.
Sally Smart and Entang Wiharso, Installation view, Conversation: Endless Acts of Human History, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, 2016. Image courtesy Galeri Canna and the artists.
2015 Annual Conference for the Artist Village Alliance of Taiwan, Workshop B: region and attribute lateral exchange among Artist Villages, Taipei Artist Village, 5 – 6 July 2015. Image courtesy Artists in Residence Taipei.
ON THE GROUND AND IN THE KNOW ASIA-CAPABILITY DELEGATION FOR VICTORIAN FESTIVAL DIRECTORS TO ETAT 2015
ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR THE ARTIST VILLAGE ALLIANCE OF TAIWAN In July 2015 Taipei Artist Village held their inaugural ‘Annual Conference for the Artist Village Alliance of Taiwan’. The aim was to encourage Taiwanese residency organisations to consider forming an alliance or network that strengthens Taiwan’s presence both locally and further afield. Numerous and diverse residency spaces from Taipei to Kaohsiung and all corners of the country were highlighted over the course of two days. International keynote speakers included Yusaku Imamura (Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan), Nathalie Anglès (Residency Unlimited, New York), Bruce Rodgers (Alliance of Artists Communities, USA), Premona Sengupta (Khoj International Artists’ Association, India) and Su Yao-Hua (formerly of Artists in Residence Taipei). Eliza Roberts (Asialink and Res Artis) also presented a keynote on the importance of networking and bilateral and multilateral partnerships within the field.
In August 2015 Asialink Arts facilitated a delegation for three Victorian Festival Directors to Tokyo and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (ETAT), Japan. The delegates comprised Kate Callingham, General Manager of the Emerging Writers’ Festival; Georgie Meagher, Artistic Director/CEO, Next Wave; and Adelle Rohrsheim, Festival Manager, Art Is… Festival, Horsham. The aim of the delegation was to research and develop professional networks and partnerships culminating in a series of reciprocal projects for future delivery. Three days were spent in Tokyo before moving to Niigata prefecture to experience the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, a festival that uses art to encourage visitation to a region suffering from an ageing population and economic decline. The delegation coincided with a major performance at ETAT by Asialink Arts Residents’ Snuff Puppets, who stayed at Australia House for an intensive one-month residency collaborating with the Urada community to build giant puppets based on local folk tales. The community learnt to operate the puppets, and performed in Niigata prefecture and Honjima Island, engaging more than 6,375 audience members. Snuff Puppets have been invited to return to Japan to participate in the 2016 Setouchi Triennale, which Asialink will again be involved in through the ‘Fukutake House Asia Art Platform’.
SALLY SMART (VIC) BLACK GOAT STUDIOS AND ENTANG WIHARSO, YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
Top to bottom: David Finnigan, Karnabal Festival opening parade 2015. Photo courtesy Jordan Prosser.
Top to bottom: Snuff Puppets, Giant Puppets of Echigo-Tsumari, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2015, Niigata prefecture, Japan
Day 1, Borak Art Series: Eyes on ASEAN, St Giles Wembley, Penang, 29 – 30 August 2015. Image courtesy My Performing Arts Agency, Malaysia.
David Finnigan is a writer, theatre-maker and festival producer. During his residency in the Philippines David developed a new participatory performance, Gobyerno or ‘Government’, in which contributors imagined their ideal nation. A prototype was presented at Festival B:om in Korea, Karnabal Festival in Manila and Honmoku Art Festival in Japan. Gobyerno will premiere prior to the Philippines election in May 2016. David also worked with Sipat Lawin Ensemble to curate and produce the International Exchange Platform for the Karnabal Festival, involving 18 artists from Asia, USA, UK and Australia. David developed two new works with Filipino artist Isab Martinez; ‘Appropriate Kissing For All Occasions’ and ‘Relationship Anatomy’, which will be presented in Canberra as part of the You Are Here festival in 2016. SUPPORTED BY ARTS ACT
Australian Arts Professionals to Asia
Image Captions: On the Ground and in the Know
SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION
Sally Smart has exhibited widely and is represented in galleries and collections throughout Australia and internationally. She is currently an Honorary Senior Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. In 2015 Sally undertook a residency with renowned Indonesian artist Entang Wiharso at his Black Goat Studios in Yogyakarta. The residency culminated in a joint exhibition at Galeri Nasional Jakarta titled ‘Conversation: Endless Acts of Human History’. The exhibition was the product of a unique collaboration between the two artists who met in Melbourne in 2012 and became close friends. Curated by Australian Natalie King and Indonesian Suwarno Wisetrotomo, the exhibition featured independent artworks by both artists, alongside new collaborations.
BORAK ART SERIES ‘EYES ON ASEAN’ My Performing Arts Agency (MyPAA) presented the Borak Art Series in Penang, Malaysia from 29 – 30 August 2015. The series coincided with the George Town Festival, enabling participants to immerse themselves in both local and international arts and culture. The theme of the series was ‘Eyes on ASEAN’ and focused on the tremendous amount of resources currently being directed towards ASEAN partnerships by the West. It explored strategies to capitalise on these funding and networking opportunities by strengthening the ASEAN cluster of South East Asian nations. Asialink’s Arts Residencies Manager spoke on a panel session titled ‘Getting to Know our International Fund Partners (with an outlook on ASEAN)’, and stressed the importance of non-monetary resources and the importance of Australia’s relationship with the region.
DELEGATION SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA SNUFF PUPPETS’ RESIDENCY SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, TOKYO
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Reciprocal Residencies Right top to bottom: Kevin Platt, Untitled #1 & #2, 2015, coat-hangers, fishing rod, flag holder, rack. Open Studios, MMCA Goyang Residency, Korea. Seo Hae-Young, Street sculpture project: Would you be my model?’, 2015 Cover Baden Pailthorpe, Still, MQ-9 Reaper II (That Others May Die), 2014, High Definition, two-channel 3D animation (3840 x 1080), colour, stereo, 6 mins. ED. 4 + 1AP. Sound engineer: Jack Prest
ASIALINK ARTS RESIDENCIES
2016
2016 ASIALINK ARTS NEWS EDITORIAL
2016 RESIDENCY PROGRAM
EXPLORING NEW TERRITORY: CROSS/INTER / MULTI /DISCIPLINARY CULTURAL EXCHANGE WITH ASIA
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
It is a great privilege to introduce the 2016 Asialink Arts Residents and their hosts and congratulate them on their selection in anticipation of new partnerships, projects and friendships. As always, the selection of this year’s residents was a highly competitive process with many more outstanding applications than we can fund. This is testament to the demand and need by Australian arts professionals to work in and with Asia to explore new territory and ideas or build on more mature relationships. A major theme running through many of the residency applications for 2016 was the strong interest in exploring cross/inter/multi-disciplinary ideas and concepts with partners in Asia, both between art forms, but increasingly outside the arts. In particular there is an increased fascination by artists and curators with what is known as STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) and their intersection with art, design and new media. During 2016 residents will be exploring these new territories through projects with the Robotics Association of Nepal in Kathmandu, teamLab inTokyo, Grey Projects in Singapore and Chronus Arts Center in Shanghai. Read more about these and other projects in this newsletter.
of STEAM (Including the Arts), and its contribution to the invention of a new future in the innovation age. We look forward to profiling the outcomes of these projects over the coming twelve months. The residency program is fundamental to the mission of Asialink Arts in delivering both cultural engagement and international capability opportunities with Asia. We now have a residency alumni of over 800 arts professionals who are making an ongoing contribution to our vision of a deeply engaged and Asia capable cultural sector able to make a contribution to the cultural life of the region. The residency program is made possible through the ongoing support of our many partners. In particular the Australia Council for the Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as well as State and Territory Governments and the Malcolm Robertson Foundation. Their enthusiastic support and interest in the role of arts residencies in cultural exchange with Asia is acknowledged and much appreciated. Thank you also to our host partners in Asia who provide such valuable support and for the program. Lesley Alway, Director Asialink Arts
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Arts Residencies have become a vital platform in the progression of an artist’s career. Not only do residencies offer time and space to perfect technical skills and experiment with new concepts or artistic pathways, they also play a critical role in broadening an artist’s world view and introducing them to new networks, settings and opportunities. Asialink’s Arts Residency Program is unique in its partnership model, and the level of support provided to its recipients to maximise residency opportunities. Our extensive Alumni network plays an active role as a resource for new residents through participation in information sessions and our annual One Day Asia-Capability Orientation. I am delighted to introduce you to Asialink’s 2016 Arts Residents. From 227 nation-wide applications to the program, 33 individual artists were awarded arts residencies. Many have been matched with one of Asialink’s host partners; ranging from publishing houses, private galleries, theatres, universities and dedicated arts residency spaces. Four residents will be the first to pilot new partners including Organhaus in Chongqing, Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, Tenjinyama Art Studio in Sapporo and Grey Projects, Singapore. Through self-initiated proposals, several residents will explore the intersections between art and other disciplines this year. Michael Candy (NSW) will journey to Kathmandu to work with the Robotics Association of Nepal in a structured series of cybernetic experiments and workshops exploring humanity’s spiritual synergy with technology. Baden Pailthorpe (NSW) will collaborate with ultra-technologist collective teamLab in Tokyo, while writer Stephanie Lai (VIC) will investigate the impacts of climate change on cultural traditions at Grey Projects in Singapore.
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A new addition is Asialink’s first ever craft-focused reciprocal residency supported by Arts ACT. Takeyoshi Mitsui (Japan) will spend 6 weeks at Canberra Glassworks where he will develop new glass art informed by his experience of Australian nature. In exchange, John White (ACT) will develop new works influenced by local inventions and innovations surrounding Toyama Glass Studio. Asialink’s Arts Residency Laboratory ensures the program remains at the forefront of International developments in the field. Many of the models trialled through the lab aim to fulfil identified targets or respond to sector developments. Kerjasama: Reciprocal Residency between Australia and Indonesia has become a crucial platform for Asialink to increase awareness of the program to Indigenous applicants. In its’ third year of operation, Asialink saw a 150% increase in applications from Indigenous Australian applicants this grant round. Tony Albert (NSW) and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Indonesia) will spend 6 weeks together at Artback NT in Alice Springs, before heading to Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta. Congratulations to Asialink’s 2016 Arts Residents! We look forward to working with you and our many supportive hosts and funding partners to harness this opportunity for significant professional growth and two-way regional engagement. Eliza Roberts, Arts Residencies Manager, Asialink
RECIPROCAL RESIDENCIES
NSW-KOREA Marilyn Schneider (NSW), MMCA Residency Goyang, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and BigCi, NSW Marilyn Schneider is a Sydney based artist whose practice is concerned with the visual language of architectural facades, the surfaces and logos in commercial spaces and what they reveal about our culture. Marilyn’s sculptural installations are aligned with the commercial theming and structure of her chosen sites. Using synthetic and industrial materials her works imitate the manufacturing methods of high capitalism. Isolated in the gallery space, these manipulated forms take on new meanings that communicate the deceptive and seductive nature of corporate architecture. At MMCA Residency Goyang Marilyn will develop new work, reflecting on hybrid styles and characteristics of modern architectural form.
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John White (ACT), Toyama Glass Studio, Japan John White is a visual artist based in Canberra, working with stories of discovery and invention that have shaped and influenced our world throughout history. His work reflects the way his life has taken many paths through achievements in skilled-based trades, his practice grounded in the relationship between the artisan and tools of their trade and practices. The intention in his work is to highlight man’s wonder, creating objects that both express and evoke a sense of marvel. At Toyama Glass Studio, John will develop new works based on research into local inventions and innovations.
Kimberley Pace (WA), Dept. AiR, Taipei Culture Foundation, Taiwan Kimberley Pace is a multidisciplinary artist from Perth. After graduating from Edith Cowan University in 2011 where she completed a BA of Arts, she went on to complete a MA of Arts by Research degree at the same university. She is currently a sessional academic in Contemporary Fashion at ECU, WA. Although Kimberley’s current artist practice is garment based, her inquiry of the body as an inbetween condition occurs through a multidisciplinary approach that includes sculpture, video, performance, and sound. At AiR Taipei, Kimberley will extend this inquiry with specific focus on gaze and the body.
Takeyoshi Mitsui (Japan), Canberra Glassworks Takeyoshi Mitsui is a professional glass artist, specialising in glass blowing and experienced in the conceptual development of artistic projects and commissions. On a recent project for the new Toyama Glass Art Museum Takeyoshi managed a team of Japanese artists working with renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly’s studio. He has travelled to various countries, including India, applying his experiences to his art works. At Canberra Glassworks Takeyoshi will develop new work informed by his experience of Australian nature. SUPPORTED BY ARTS ACT
Korean artist yet to be selected
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SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION
TOYAMA GLASS STUDIO
Liu Yao-Chung (Taiwan), Fremantle Arts Centre, WA Liu Yao-Chung is an artist and writer. He graduated from Tunghai University in 2009 with a Master in Fine Arts. Yao-Chung has exhibited extensively throughout Taiwan, and in 2013 undertook a residency with Art Center Ongoing in Tokyo. In 2014 he was selected for the Free Art Fair Award, and in 2013 was nominated for the Young Artist Taipei Award. Yao-Chung’s practice references pop culture by combining language and images inspired by movies, books and historical documents. His work is often imbued with a sense of playfulness, humour and irony that critiques the notion of ‘high art’. Yao-Chung will use his experiences of daily life in Fremantle towards the development of new multidisciplinary works. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA AND THE AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL
Asialink’s Arts Residency Laboratory was launched in 2012 with the aim of trialling new models of residencies to ensure Asialink’s program remains at the forefront of international developments in the field. This year the Residency Laboratory features three innovative models. In its’ third year ‘Kerjasama’ or ‘Collaborate’ has become a crucial platform for Asialink to increase awareness of the Arts Residency Program to Indigenous applicants. ‘Fukutake House Asia Art Platform, Setouchi Triennale 2016’ uses art and food to increase visitation to a region in Japan suffering from an ageing population and economic decline. The platform involves diverse collaborations between seven Asian arts residency centres resulting in a group exhibition and chef project. ‘SymbioticA: The Science of Arts Residencies’ explores the intersections between art and science. This model employs a ‘roving’ concept that partners with different innovative organisations in Asia each year.
SYMBIOTICA: THE SCIENCE OF ARTS RESIDENCIES Yiyun Chen (China), SymbioticA: the University of Western Australia Yiyen Chen is an artist/designer who lives and works in Shanghai. Drawing and film are the main mediums of her narrative works, which are often based on fictional scenarios, aiming to provide alternative perspectives by raising questions through proposing critical concepts. She is interested in the realms where design, psychology and medicine connect, and her current work is concerned with disease and the medical psychology of the human body. At SymbioticA she will research the biological level of her speculative design project that transforms illness into forms of productivity.
KERJASAMA: RECIPROCAL RESIDENCY BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND INDONESIA Artback NT, Alice Springs Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta Tony Albert (NSW) Over the past 10 years Tony Albert has achieved extraordinary visibility and critical acclaim for his practice that combines text, video, drawing, painting, and threedimensional objects. Examining the legacy of racial and cultural misrepresentation, particularly of Australia’s Aboriginal people, Tony has developed a universal language that seeks to rewrite historical mistruths and injustice. In 2014 Tony was awarded the Basil Sellers Art Prize and the NATSIAA. In 2015 he conducted a prestigious residency at the ISCP, New York. Tony is represented by Sullivan & Strumpf, Sydney. Timoteus Anggawan Kusno (Yogyakarta) Timoteus Anggawan Kusno works with various mediums including drawing, photography, performance, video and installation. Through twists of magical and realistic elements embodied in his work, he investigates histories that can be reimagined. Nominated for Best Emerging Artist Using Drawing, Prudential Eye Award Contemporary Asian Art 2014, Timoteus was also commissioned as a concept artist for 2014 Indonesia’s Documentary Film Festival. In 2015 he was selected as a resident artist at ARCUS Project, Japan to conduct research and artistic experiments around ideas of remembering and forgetting.
FUKUTAKE HOUSE ASIA ART PLATFORM, SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2016 ART FRONT GALLERY AND THE FUKUTAKE FOUNDATION, JAPAN Joanna Bosse (VIC), Naomi Eller (VIC) and Adam Liaw (NSW)
Trained as a painter, Naomi Eller has worked in the medium of clay-based sculpture for over eight years and presented a solo project at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne in 2015. Joanna Bosse has over 15 years’ experience curating and producing exhibitions, most recently as Curator at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. Joanna and Naomi will work with the local Fukuda community to present an exhibition of ceramic sculpture and collage that uses shoreline detritus to explore the effects of globalisation as a force that blends and transforms cultures. This process of transforming the ‘local’ into ‘fusion’ echoes Australia’s response to globalisation, and will be explored by Chef Adam Liaw in his workshop training Fukuda locals in Modern Australian cuisine. Well-known in Australia and Japan, Adam is a unique voice in Australian food. His workshop recipes will be offered at a community-run Ryue Nishizawa designed restaurant for the duration of the Triennale. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-JAPAN FOUNDATION AND THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, TOKYO.
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.
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Since 2010 Asialink has partnered hosts around Australia with like-minded organisations in Asia to ensure engagement in the region is not one-way. Asialink’s Reciprocal Residency Program is location-specific and most have staggered timing to enable recipients to take on a hosting role. In 2016 Asialink will pilot our first ever craft focused residency between the ACT and Japan.
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SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA.
AUSTRALIAN ARTS PROFESSIONALS TO ASIA Since 1991 Asialink’s Arts Residency Program has provided professional development opportunities for arts professionals working in and across artforms, in exchange for the sharing of skills, knowledge and networks with local host communities. Each year Asialink awards approximately 30 residencies for Australian arts professionals to undertake 6 – 12 week residencies throughout Asia. Applicants can apply to one of Asialink’s diverse Host Partners or submit a self-initiated proposal.
CHINA Zhiling Gao (VIC), The Bookworm, Beijing A child of 1960s China, Zhiling Gao is a freelance interpreter, literary translator, language teacher, author and broadcaster. She has taught courses in Chinese language and culture at Melbourne University and has translated narratives and poems. Zhiling’s short story ‘Mao’s Great Mangifera Parade’ won the Victorian Writers’ Centre’s Grace Marion Wilson award. Her recent work, ‘A Bag of Power’, set in Inner Mongolia, explores the behaviour of ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. Zhiling will extend this into a book-length literary work during her residency at The Bookworm,Beijing. SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
Prue Venables (VIC), The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen Prue Venables’ practice as an exhibiting ceramic artist spans over 35 years. Winner of numerous awards, her work is included in many national and international public and private collections. She has exhibited widely in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia and America. At The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen Prue will learn ancient Chinese onglaze enamel techniques, and extend her experimental firing practices, enabling increased scale and complexity of new works. SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
Luke Hutchinson (VIC), Organhaus, Chongqing Luke Warm is an Australian with Dutch-Indonesian and Chinese heritage who is interested in how people of multiple cultural backgrounds sustain various aspects of their cultural identity. He is a production designer and visual artist and holds a Master of Production Design, with Advanced Diplomas in visual art and multimedia. Alongside his art practice, Luke has designed several short films that have received acclaim in international film festivals, including Berlin and Cannes. During his residency with Organhaus in Chongqing, Luke will create a multi-media video installation exploring how one culture perceives another through various information and media streams. SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
HONG KONG Soda_Jerk (NSW), Videotage, Hong Kong Formed in Sydney in 2002, Soda_Jerk is art duo Dan and Dominique Angeloro. Working with sampled material they create rogue histories and counter-mythologies in the form of video installations and live video essays. Recent exhibitions have been held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, D.C.), Pioneer Works (NYC), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff) and Whitworth Gallery (Manchester). They are fellows of Asialink (2008) and other international programs including Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, FACT, Liverpool, and ISCP, New York. During their residency at Videotage, Soda_Jerk will conduct research and collect Hong Kong cyber sci-fi cinema for their film project ‘Netsploits’. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW AND THE AUSTRALIA-CHINA COUNCIL
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Mohini Chandra (NSW), Kriti Gallery & Residency, Varanasi Mohini Chandra is a visual artist who has exhibited internationally including at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and the Asia Society (New York). As a descendant of Indian-Fijian indentured labourers, Mohini’s cross-cultural work on memory and visual articulations of identity within contemporary globalised cultures explores the fragmentation and fluidity of diaspora experience through photography, moving-image and installation. Extending her current project in the Pacific region, ‘Paradise Lost’, Mohini will be based at the Kriti Gallery & Residency in Varanasi where she will undertake research around her family’s migration from North India to Fiji (via Kolkata), towards the production of new photographic and moving-image work.
Leonie Andrews (ACT), Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Leonie Andrews is a visual artist working in textiles and print making. Her work is characterised by its exploration of the themes of location and how, as individuals, we connect to a particular place. Since completing her studies at the Australian National University School of Art she has developed her ‘critically exploratory eye’, to record and draw attention to suburban life. Regular visits to Japan have highlighted both the connections and dis-locations to her own cultural experiences. Leonie will be based at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, exploring suburban life in the world’s greatest metropolis.
John Mateer (WA), Hotel Penaga, Penang John Mateer is a poet, writer and curator. He has published books in Australia, the UK, Austria and Portugal, and the prose ‘Semar’s Cave: an Indonesian Journal and The Quiet Slave’. His most recent book of poems is ‘Unbelievers’, or ‘The Moor’. With the Cocos Malay community, he wrote an account of the settlement of the Cocos-Keeling Islands for a sound installation. During his residency at Hotel Penaga, John will research the historical encounters between the Malay peoples and the Asian and European traders, focusing on the peripheral, Asian characters in the 17th century epic ‘The Conquest of Malacca’.
SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW
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Kate Just (VIC), Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi Kate Just is an established visual artist working primarily with knitting, textiles and photography. She mines diverse histories and mythologies of female representation and reinterprets them through a feminist lens, addressing a broad range of relevant personal, social and political concerns. During her residency at Sanskriti Foundation in New Delhi, Kate will research the India Durga Goddess and study embroidery by local artisans at the Sanskriti Museum of Textiles. Her new work in India will include a large-scale knitted and embroidered pictorial work exploring ideas of female embodiment and power within a contemporary urban context.
Raewyn Hill (WA), Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Raewyn Hill is an internationally commissioned contemporary dance choreographer, educator and artistic director. In September 2014, Raewyn was appointed the founding Artistic Director of Co3, the Contemporary Dance Company of Western Australia. Her work has been presented worldwide, including the National Art Centre in Tokyo, Hong Kong Arts Festival Asia Dance Platform, and The Juilliard School in New York. During her residency at Tokyo Wonder Site Raewyn will reconnect with Japanese visual artist, Naoko Yoshimoto, to explore the intersection of their creative practice and further develop the ‘MA Project’, conceived by the pair in 2014.
SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
SUPPORTED BY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA
Hannah Raisin (VIC), 1.Shanthiroad, Bangalore Hannah Raisin is a Melbourne-based video and performance artist. She has exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Australia since 2007, and co-founded Rear View Gallery in 2009. In 2012 she received first class honours at the VCA, when she was also awarded the VCA’s Rosemary Ricker, Shermerdine Substation and NGV Women’s Association awards. Hannah received Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart and New Work Grants in 2013. At 1.Shanthiroad Hannah will explore traditional and contemporary Indian cultural practices and politics and incorporate this into new work.
Reuben Keehan (QLD), BankART1929, Yokohama Reuben Keehan is Curator of Contemporary Asian Art at QAGOMA, Brisbane. With over 15 years’ experience as a curator and writer, he has worked in curatorial roles at MCA Sydney and the Australian Centre for Photography, and was Curator at Artspace, Sydney from 2006 to 2011. His writing has been published in Artforum, Flash Art, Bijutsutecho and Art US, and he is a regular speaker on contemporary art and theory, focusing on recent practice in the Asia-Pacific, with particular expertise in Japanese post-war and contemporary art. At BankART1929 Reuben will develop his writing and curatorial practice and reconnect with the art community of Yokohama.
SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
Mandy Ridley (QLD), Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative, New Delhi Mandy Ridley creates object-based artworks for exhibition and site-specific public art commissions. Her works are often layered to trace history, influence and connection for a particular site, establishing points of resonance between people of differing cultural backgrounds through colour and pattern. Mandy has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1996. Her work is held by Artbank and in public and private collections. Mandy will work with the Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative in Delhi, researching new work with members of the Insha E Noor groups of Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti. Her project reinterprets traditional craft skills using contemporary materials and processes. SUPPORTED BY ARTS QUEENSLAND
INDONESIA Natalie Sprite (NT), Saritaksu Editions, Bali Natalie Sprite was short-listed for the 2002 Australia/Vogel Literary Award for her novel ‘Gracenotes’ and appeared at the 2004 Sydney Writers’ Festival showcase of Best New Regional Writers. Natalie is recipient of a number of literary prizes, including the ABC Open Short Fiction Prize and the 2013 and 2014 NT Literary Awards. Her stories have been widely published in literary journals and anthologies including Meanjin, Bruno’s Song and Australian Award Winning Writing. In 2014 she was awarded a Literature Board grant to write her novel, ‘Ripe’. At Saritaksu Editions in Bali, Natalie will write a collection of stories exploring the tension between belonging and dislocation in Bali. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA INSTITUTE
Willoh S. Weiland (VIC), Yes No Klub, Yogyakarta Willoh S. Weiland is an artist, writer, curator and the Artistic Director of Aphids. Her trilogy of works ‘Forever Now’, ‘Void Love’ and ‘Yelling at Stars’ (2008-2015) explore the relationship between art and infinity. She is interested in creating impossible premises and then fulfilling them, and working with non-artists to create contemporary artworks. She has made work for the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Next Wave Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and won the 2015 International Live Art Prize. During her residency with Yes No Klub, Willoh will collaborate with local artists on a new performance titled ‘Dead/Alive’. SUPPORTED BY CREATIVE VICTORIA
SUPPORTED BY ARTS QUEENSLAND
Baden Pailthorpe (NSW), teamLab, Tokyo Baden Pailthorpe is an Australian contemporary artist. Working predominantly within the field of new media, his work focuses on the growing reach and the subtle operations of contemporary militarism, institutions and power. He has participated in over sixty solo and group exhibitions. During his residency with ultra-technologist collective teamLab in Tokyo, Baden will learn new technical skills, foster cultural exchange and create new works. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW
Nadège Philippe-Janon (TAS), Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Sapporo Nadège Philippe-Janon’s practice spans installation, sculpture, animation, video, light and sound. Having commenced her studies in Environmental Science, her interest in biology continues to inform her work, as she explores the inextricably networked and dynamic nature of systems, beings and materials. She has most recently shown at Contemporary Art Tasmania and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, and will be collaborating with roboticist Claire D’est in 2016 for Salamanca Art Centre’s major curated exhibition, ‘New Alchemists’. At Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Nadège will investigate insect/non-human listening sites and locate manifestations of the non-human in the urban environment. SUPPORTED BY ARTS TASMANIA
KOREA Anna Horne (SA), Cheongju Art Studio, Cheongju Anna Horne is a sculptor whose practice focuses on process and materiality. Her work references domestic objects and space through the use of commonplace materials. Since 2008, Horne has exhibited frequently in local and interstate galleries, and in 2011 her work was published in FELT GOLD: A Survey of Emerging Contemporary Art Practice in South Australia. In 2012 she was awarded a residency at Sydney’s Artspace and undertook a residency in New Delhi in 2013. She was a finalist in the John Fries Award and Artmonth 20/20 Event at Carriageworks in 2014. At Cheongju Art Studio in Korea, Anna will develop a new body of work interrogating the connections between accumulations of objects. SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA-KOREA FOUNDATION
SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA
NEPAL Michael Candy (NSW), Robotics Association of Nepal, Kathmandu Michael Candy uses physical technologies to impart systems theory on ecology and sociology. His artworks empower and translate closed systems into tangible medium: a flooding river is given a voice; a goldfish held ransom to a cocktail party; and synthesizers become controlled by the environment atop an active volcano. A myriad of ecological and political encounters give rise to contrasts as paradoxes become diluted. In 2016 Michael will journey to Kathmandu to work with the Robotics Association of Nepal, in a structured series of cybernetic experiments and workshops exploring humanity’s spiritual synergy with technology. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NSW
SINGAPORE Stephanie Lai (VIC), Grey Projects, Singapore Stephanie Lai is a Chinese-Australian writer and occasional translator. She has been published nationally and internationally in Peril Magazine, the Toast, the Lifted Brow and Overland. In 2015 Stephanie has had works published in the anthologies Companion Piece and Cranky Ladies of History. She is an amateur infrastructure nerd and has a professional interest in climate change adaptation and sustainability. At Grey Projects in Singapore, Stephanie will explore the impacts of climate change on cultural traditions. SUPPORTED BY THE MALCOLM ROBERTSON FOUNDATION
Rachel Ogle (WA), Maya Dance Theatre, Singapore Rachel Ogle is a dance artist with an extensive career spanning 14 years as a performer, choreographer, educator and arts worker. Her practice encompasses artistic roles in company and independent dance, international residencies and exchange projects, tertiary lecturing, and a dedication to long-term projects within disability arts and remote communities. Her choreographic work has been presented in Australia, France, the Netherlands and Nigeria. Her independently produced full-length work ‘precipice’ premiered to critical acclaim, receiving nominations for a Helpmann Award and an Australian Dance Award in 2015. At Maya Dance Theatre in Singapore, Rachel will work with local dancers to create a new work for the Theatre’s 2016 showcase. SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS, WA
TAIWAN Tim Cole (NT), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Tim Cole is a filmmaker and music producer specialising in cross cultural indigenous projects, filmed, recorded and produced in the field. He is a Churchill Fellow, Company Member of Circus Oz, and founding member of Not Drowning Waving, and has held key creative rolls on several ARIA & AACTA award-winning projects. During 2016 Tim will visit twelve countries, including Taiwan, working with indigenous artists and endangered communities, collecting footage, stories and songs from Madagascar to Hawaii. Based at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Tim will review and produce this collection into multimedia content, creatively reuniting Taiwan’s living indigenous heritage. SUPPORTED BY ARTS NT