2017

Agatha Gothe-Snape will present a month long performance program to accompany her  exhibition at the Mori Art Museum, Toyko. Part of a series of exhibitions showcasing prominent emerging talents from around the world, Agatha will be the first Australian artist to hold a solo exhibition at the prestigious museum.

Christy Collins is a Melbourne based fiction writer. At the Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio Christy will begin exploratory work on a new piece of long-form fiction inspired, in part, by contemporary Japanese filmmakers including Hirokazu Kore-eda and Rusuke Hamaguchi.

Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano are Melbourne based video artists. At BankART 1929 the duo will work with local experts and performers to develop a body of work informed by the Japanese avant-garde dance Butoh, exploring the representation of gestures and the gendered body through a social and political context.

Interdisciplinary arts worker, educator and artist Hugh Davies will present an exhibition of Australian independent games at Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan. Part of Asialink’s inaugural Creative Industries exchange, he will develop a reciprocal exhibition of Japanese independent games to exhibit in Australia, with the intention of furthering opportunities for game artists and curators on both sides of the Asia Pacific.

Western Australian writer Madelaine Dickie will be based at Youkobo Artspace, Tokyo to research and draft her second novel, Red Can Origami (working title). Exploring tensions between mining companies and Aboriginal groups, the story will be told from the perspective of a young woman who has witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in generations.

Driven by a desire to express the living natural world in a mass-produced environment, Sui Jackson uses industrial processes and recycled materials to create pieces in glass and ceramic. During his six week residency he will respond to Japanese forms, landscapes and cultural representations of nature, before exhibiting his work at Toyama Glass Art Museum.