Streetworks: Inside Outside Yokohama

Streetworks: Inside Outside Yokohama featured works by two leading Australian video artists, Shaun Gladwell and Craig Walsh. Their works were a highlight at the International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2005, selected for display there in very different circumstances to making a new exhibition to tour further. Asialink had seen the interest in Patricia Piccinini’s work in Japan, partly as a result of it having been in the Venice Biennale. Could the work of these two artists, shown in Yokohama, form a new touring show that both highlighted the specific work and also gave wider access to what had been seen in this major exposition in Japan? David Broker was asked to curate such a show and the answer was a resounding ‘yes’. The exhibition kept being requested; the response was very positive, concluding its tour in Indonesia as part of the main visual arts event for the special focus year by Australia, in2oz Creative Australia (2008), where both artists and the curator traveled. Craig Walsh was invited back to participate in the 2009 Jakarta Biennale and it gave curator David Broker his first taste of Indonesia, a place he says he regrets not having engaged with previously.