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Since 1990 Asialink Arts has worked to initiate cultural and artistic exchange between Australia and the countries of Asia.
Our aim is to promote cultural understanding, information exchange and artistic endeavour between Australia and Asian countries.
Our work includes Australia's largest international arts residency program, an intensive annual visual arts touring program, an ever-evolving range of exchange and collaborative projects, as well as writers' tours, publications and local and international events.
These programs enable Australians to develop their talents and experience by working in and with Asia. Artists establish personal contacts, develop on-going communication networks and further projects, and initiate and organise specific programs that encourage greater knowledge and understanding of Australian arts.
Arts News
In Memory of Boitran Huynh-Beattie - Asialink Writing Resident, 2011
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Asialink is deeply saddened to hear that Boitran Huynh-Beattie recently passed away. Boitran had just recently finished her residency at the Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts, and was coming home via Singapore (where her daughter and grand-children live), when she experienced an aneurism. Sadly she passed away surrounded by her family on Monday 16 January.
Boitran was an outstanding arts resident and Ambassador of Australia-Vietnam relations. Before she even left Australia, she had teed up meetings and started networking. During her residency, it seemed that not a week went by without Boitran undertaking a presentation or public outcome. She achieved a huge amount in a three month residency.
Some highlights of Boitran’s residency include:
Opening the exhibition Transfiguration at the Fine Arts University of Ho Chi Minh City on 18 October 2011. The exhibition was a solo show of Khue Nguyen, the first Vietnamese-Australian artist in the finalist list of the Archibald Prize (2010). Boitran wrote the catalogue essay for this, and was invited to cut the ribbon at the opening.
Worked in libraries and on a deceased artist's collection, which included publications from the 1950s to 1970s, as well as works on paper that have never been exhibited.
Presented talks at the University of Social Sciences, Australian Studies Department; The Australian International School; Hồng Bàng University; Australian Consulate office in Ho Chi Minh City; Art College in Vieng Chang and the National Art Institute, Laos.
Had plans to deliver a talk on Australian art (being arranged by the Australian Consulate) at An Giang University (in Mekong Delta) in late January, or early Feb.
Donated catalogues and Australian arts books to the library at the Ho Chi Minh University of Fine Arts (gifts from The Australia Council for the Arts and Boitran), in the presence of the Australian Consul-General (pictured).
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Convened a Curators Talk at the Fine Arts University with the participation of Sue Hajdu (Australian), Rich Streitmatter-Tran (Vietnamese-American who co-curated a project for the Asia Pacific Triennal 6) and Tran Thi Huynh Nga who opened the first non-commercial contemporary art centre in Vietnam in 1997.
Asialink wishes to express our deepest sympathies to Boitran’s husband Ray and family. Boitran made an amazing impact, and will be missed.
From Melbourne to East Timor: Theatre for development
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News from current performing arts resident Catherine Simmonds, at Many Hands International, Timor Leste, July 2011.
Read Media Release [pdf]
Left: Catherine Simmonds and members of Nafo Fila outside their headquarters in Ainaro.
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Japanese artist in residence, Midori Mitamura at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)
(Also see PDF flyer)
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Asialink welcomes Tokyo based artist Midori Mitamura to Melbourne as she embarks on her 3 month Asialink residency at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Midori is in Melbourne on a reciprocal exchange between MUMA and Tokyo Wonder Suite (TWS), Japan. NSW artist Sarah Goffman will be undertaking her residency at Tokyo Wonder Site in June. Midori will continue to develop her Art & Breakfast project, that was initiated in Tokyo and continued in Stockholm and Berlin. Midori will create installations using found materials, and based on her encounters with visitors over breakfast.
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Invisible Structures undertakes it’s final circuit in Yogyakarta
Past Asialink residency recipient Danius Kesminas exhibits his ongoing relationship with Indonesia
The project PUNKASILA is a collaboration with an Indonesian "post-disaster rock band" of the same name. The band (which includes Kesminas) recently played at DingDong Lounge and at the Espy, Melbourne. All 3 of Kesminas’ projects are exhibited alongside Japanese artist in residence Midori Mitamura's exhibition Art & Breakfast, Melbourne (see above).
Asialink Writing Delegation to Korea
Asialink’s Writing Program is currently touring Korea with 3 Australian poets to present readings, lectures and workshops and collaborate with Korean writers in Seoul. Barry Hill, Ivy Alvarez and Terry Jaensch, along with Cordite Poetry Review Editor and poet David Prater and writer, artist and Writing Program Manager Nic Low are undertaking a 2 week residency at the Yeonhui Writers Village in Seoul. The delegation will launch a new bilingual issue of Cordite featuring new work from Australian and Korean poets. The project, funded by the Australia International Cultural Council, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Korea Literature Translation Institute also includes a return visit by Korean poets to Australia in September.
Photos of the delegation and updated information to follow soon.
Face to Face: Portraiture in a digital age
Asialink Arts touring exhibition, Face to Face: Portraiture in a digital age, was opened by Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in Seoul to celebrate 50 years of Australia-Korea exchange. Curated by Dr Kathy Cleland, the exhibition explores the way digital technologies have reshaped our understanding of contemporary identity. Read more
Face to Face has attracted phenomenal attendance since it opened in Seoul:
511 people to the opening and 19,569 general visitors
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During a recent trip to Seoul to open the exhibition Face to Face Portraiture in a digital age, Asialink Arts visited visual arts residency host organisation, Changdong Art Studio. We also met 2011 artist in residence at Artspace, Sydney; Yongseok Oh, and look forward to welcoming him to Australia from 5 July-3 October 2011.
From left to right: Hyun Ja Shin, Residency Program Manager at Changdong Art Studio; Eliza Roberts, Asialink Arts Program Coordinator; and Youngseok Oh, 2011 artist in residence at Artspace, Sydney.
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Asialink in our region
Asialink Arts has worked with 21 countries in Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The map below indicates many of the cites and towns we have worked in.
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