Creative Exchanges: 2004

Albert Chen (Taiwan ) Asialink Centre & Trinity College

Supported by The Australia-China Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

During his residency Taiwanese writer and academic Albert Chen was hosted by the Asialink Centre and Trinity College. Chen took part in Midsumma and Emerging Writers’ Festival activities, interviewing participants and identifying comparatives between Melbourne and Taiwanese queer culture. Visits to ACMI aided in the development of a science fiction novel, which will see Sydney as a main ‘character’ of the work.  Chen also published a piece on muliticulturalism and food, based on research into the food of the Chinese diaspora in Melbourne. Chen’s visit culminated in the publication of one of his poems in both English and Chinese in Meanjin.

Benno Rama Dian (Indonesia) Brisbane Powerhouse

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

Benno Rama Dian is an architect currently working as Chief Operating Officer for the Bandung Hi-tech Infrastructure Company. Rama Dian spent six weeks in Australia at the Brisbane Powerhouse in Queensland working with Artistic Director Andrew Ross. He expanded his knowledge of event management and developed theatre exchange projects promoting collaborations and performances between Queensland and Indonesian artists. Since his residency, Rama Dian has hosted an artist from SpacE3, Sydney in Bandung.

Chendra Effendy Panata (Indonesia) Victorian College of the Arts

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

Panatan is a contemporary choreographer and Director of CE & Dancers and Tari Indonesia. He is the Dance Coordinator for Romano Ballet and Dance Centre, Managing Director for Kreativitat Dance and the Performing Arts Coordinator for Tunas Muda School in Jakarta. His residency was based with One Extra Dance Company in Sydney and with TasDance in Tasmania. In Sydney he worked in production management, marketing and audience development, while in Tasmania he assisted TasDance on their community dance program Wild Rice and conducted several workshops in schools around the state.

Ching-yi Huang (Taiwan) Artists' Foundation of Western Australia

Supported by the Taipei Cultural Bureau

Ching-Yi is a young Taipei artist. The material she uses in her work - corrugated paper - is a product of consumer society. Produced from wood pulp and processed to standard specifications, this 'characterless mass-produced material' is generally used for the purpose of packaging. Huang brings this dead material to life by sticking one layer on top of another, mimicking the way organic substances like paramecium reproduce, split and extend. Such work is an expression of the artist's interest in the irrepressible nature of self-growth, the unrestrained passion of youth and the instinctive impulse of endless expansion. Huang Ching-Yi was resident at the Artists' Foundation of Western Australia from October to December 2004.

Leili Huzaibah (Indonesia) Ausdance Victoria & Dancehouse

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

Leili Huzaibah, Project Manager at the Indonesian Contemporary Dance Center, Jakarta, is committed to developing infrastructure, resources and networks for the Indonesian dance community. Her residency in Melbourne was hosted by two organisations, Ausdance Victoria and Dancehouse. She also travelled to Canberra to work with the Ausdance national office. Upon her return to Indonesia she aims to establish a contemporary dance centre, which will provide an alternative space for rehearsal, forum, seminar, workshops.

Rain Rosidi (Indonesia) Gallery 4A

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

Muhammad R. Rosidi is a lecturer at the Indonesian Art Institute and Operational Manager and Curator at Gelaran Budaya Art Space in Yogyakarta. During his residency Rosidi was first based with the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane and spent time meeting with local curators and observing their different curatorial styles and systems. In Sydney he worked with Gallery 4A through the Asia Australia Arts Centre, assisting with archiving and further deepening his knowledge of curatorship and arts management.

Yoseph Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia) Torch

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

At the time of his residency, Yoseph Joned Suryatmoko was Artistic manager of Gardanella Theatre in Yogyakarta. He was based at Torch in Melbourne where they worked on the Doveton Community Cultural Development Project. The project involved two weeks of school performances and public workshops culminating in two large public shows at Doveton Secondary College and the Fitzroy Town Hall. Suryatmoko both performed and worked as assistant director on the work. He also spent a week with Not Yet Its Difficult on their project Blowback, a week with La Mama and a week in Sydney. The residency enabled him to create valuable links with Australian theatre companies, paving the way for future Australian-Indonesian collaborations.

Yudi Aryani (Indonesia) Vitalstatistix Women’s Theatre & Brunswick Women’s Theatre

Supported by the Ford Foundation, Jakarta

Yudiaryani is a dramaturg and director with the Theatre Department at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Yogjakarta. In 1999 Yudiaryani founded Komunitas Teater Perempuan (Womens Theatre Community) in Yogyakarta and at the time of her residency undertaking her doctoral program at the Universitas Gadjah Mada. In Australia, Yudiaryani’s residency was split between two organizations: Vitalstatistix Women’s Theatre in Adelaide and the Brunswick Women’s Theatre in Melbourne where she observed many different models of women’s theatre ranging from circus, community, text based to political theatre.

Daniel Huppatz (VIC) Victorian College of the Arts

Supported by The Australia-China Council

Daniel Huppatz is a writer and academic based in Melbourne.  At the time of his residency he taught design history and theory at RMIT and had submitted a PhD on design in Hong Kong. Huppatz has published a wide variety of writing including poetry, literary criticism and fiction, as well as articles and reviews on contemporary art. In 1998 he co-founded Textbase, a literary journal and experimental small press. During his residency in Beijing, Huppatz completed a number of poems that he intends to work into a book-length manuscript. He also conducted several lectures at the Austalian Studies centres in Beijing and Shanghai and held a poetry reading at the Bookworm bookstore.

Michael Whaites (WA) Guangdong Modern Dance Company

Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia Council for the Arts

Choreographer/performer Michael Whaites has choreographed for companies such as Australian Dance Theatre, Leigh Warren and Dancers, One Extra Dance Company and Restless Dance. In China Whaites worked with the Beijing Modern Dance Academy to hone his improvisation skills. He also travelled to Guangzhou where he worked with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company and was invited to teach at a university in Hangzhou. As a result of the residency Whaites was invited back to China to create a new choreographic work Blow Up with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company in 2005.

Robert Farmer (WA) Cambodian Deaf Development

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Cambodia Theatre director and performer Robert Farmer worked with the Australian Theatre of the Deaf for four years. His highly successful Rob Roy Show, which utilises visual skits, signed songs, storytelling and jokes, has toured internationally. Farmer’s residency was based with Cambodian Deaf Development in Phnom Penh, enabling him to implement a program of theatre workshops with deaf children across five provinces in Cambodia. Workshops included developing skills in acting, creative writing, educational performances and the presentation of a show. The show was presented during the International Day of the Deaf Persons Celebrations in 2004, using gestures, sign language and visual movement unique to Deaf Theatre

Sarah Miller (WA) Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC)

Supported by Arts WA and the Australia Council for the Arts

Sarah Miller is a producer, curator, teacher, and artistic and executive director across the visual, performing, hybrid and new media arts.

Andrew Hansen (VIC) Ishara

Supported by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Andrew Hansen is a puppeteer and co-founder of Melbourne’s highly regarded puppet and visual company, Handspan Theatre Ltd. Hansen has worked on productions for both children and adults, including theatre and touring productions, parades, festivals and one-off events.  During his residency, Hansen travelled extensively throughout India and worked on eight different puppetry projects. He presented puppetry workshops organised by host organisation Ishara’s director Dadi Pudumjee and had the opportunity to experience and learn about rare forms of Indian and Keralan puppetry.

Angela Chaplin (WA) Imago Theatre Group

Supported by Arts WA and the Australia Council for the Arts

Writer/director Angela Chaplin was the Artistic Director of Deckchair Theatre at the time of her residency. Previously she was the Artistic Director of Magpie Theatre, and Artistic Director of Melbourne's Arena Theatre. During her residency Chaplin working with Imago Theatre Group devising Trash-the Musical, a reworked Bollywood interpretation of The Beggar’s Opera. She also worked with Imago Theatre’s In Education Company where she devised a play about young people and violence. Chaplin also held writing workshops with local writers, with major tertiary institutions and spoke at various forums. A major outcome from the residency is that Trash-the Musical is being co produced by Deckchair Theatre, WA and Teamwork Production, New Delhi.

Linda Neil (QLD)

Supported by Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts

Linda Neil has had a multi-faceted career as a writer and musician. Her plays have been performed Australia-wide, as well as broadcast on ABC Radio National, and she has written scripts for stage, radio and screen. Due to illness and the 2004 Boxing Day tsunamis, original plans for her residency had to be abandoned. Instead, encounters with a yogi who’d spent seven years in the forest, playing the violin for room sweepers and diplomats and collaborating on a CD of music all contributed to the narratives eventuating from her time in India. At the completion of the residency Neil had received offers to be Artist-in-Residence at Alexandria House and at the Otago Polytechnic College of Art and been invited to perform at Goldsmith’s College in London.

Mandy Ridley (QLD) Khoj Artists’ Workshop

Supported by the Australia-India Council & Arts Queensland

Artist Mandy Ridley is an experienced theatre and costume designer and has also worked in art project management. During her residency, Ridley worked for six weeks at the Khoj artists’ workshop in New Delhi and collaborated with Indian artist Reena Saini Kallat in Mumbai.

Saskia Beudel (NSW) Sanskriti Kendra

Supported by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council for the Arts

Saskia Beudel’s first novel Borrowed Eyes, was shortlisted for the 2003 Christina Stead Prize, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Kibble Dobbie award for a first manuscript. She has also published short fiction and visual art catalogue essays, and has taught at tertiary institutes in Melbourne and Sydney. Hosted by Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi, Beudel conducted background research for a novel set partially in India, and produced over 60,000 words of draft material.

Vandana Ram (NSW) National Centre for Performing Arts

Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia-India Council

At the time of her residency Vandana Ram worked as the Cultural Diversity Manager at Community Cultural Development NSW, with a particular focus on the cultural needs of small, emerging and refugee communities around Western Sydney. During her residency she researched and investigated comparative CCD practice between Australia and India. She also engaged in workshops, discussions and presentations with artists and NGO's working directly with communities in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi. As a direct result of her residency she invited Geeta Dharmarajan, founder of Katha to participate in Crossing Borderlines and Translating Narratives in 2005. Furthermore Ram’s Khoj has continued with the community cultural project that she initiated: Khirkee Arts Education Program, Shop-MakeOvers and the Khirkee Public Mural Program.

David Young (VIC) Bengkel Theater

Supported by Arts Victoria & the Australia Indonesia Institute

David Young is a renowned composer whose music is performed in Australia, Europe and Asia in contexts ranging from concerts to music theatre and installation. At the time of his residency Young was Artistic Director of Aphids. In Indonesia Young  was mentored by Rendra, Indonesia’s foremost poet and playwright and founder of Bengkel Theater. He also had the opportunity to work with Teater Gadja Mada and Teater Garasi in Yogjakarta, and with various musicians, artists and individuals in Sumatra and Bali to develop new ways of composing and creating collaborative performance art.

Gabrielle Lord (NSW)

Supported by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council for the Arts

Gabrielle Lord’s award winning career spans a quarter of a century, and includes work on several screenplays, a book on meditation and 12 novels including Fortress, Tooth & Claw, Jumbo, and Lethal Factor, the second novel about Dr Jack McCain, forensic analyst with the Australian Federal Police. The third book in this series, dealing with the trafficking of human beings, takes Dr McCain to Indonesia where Lord undertook her residency. She spent two months researching her novel, giving talks, lectures and workshops at universities and colleges across Java. During the residency Lord met writer Stefani Hid whose novels deal with contemporary Indonesian women’s concerns around feminism, sex and social services. She is currently facilitating the translation and publication of Hid’s second novel into English.

Kim Portlock is an artist whose work sits between painting and photography. She has worked on multicultural art projects as an artist, coordinator and curator. During Portlock’s residency at Sika Contemporary Art Gallery in Ubud she continued work that explored mortality and the fragility of human experience using locally made banana and pineapple papers to make ink and wash drawings.

Rendra Freestone (NSW)

Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia-Indonesia Institute

Rendra Freestone is a musician who has studied and performed original music throughout Australia, Japan and Indonesia. At the time of his residency he was Artistic Director of Australian percussion ensemble The Rhythm Hunters and resident musician for West Sumatran ensemble Musik Kabau. Freestone’s residency was part of the Sumatralia project involving travel to remote cultural strongholds in Sumatra to record traditional musicians and study their music. Over 30 diverse groups were recorded on these field trips and the resulting new compositions were compiled onto a CD which includes educational material on culture, instrumentation, and stories on life in Sumatra.

Tony Yap (VIC) Teatre Garasi & Bimo Dance

Supported by Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia-Indonesia Institute

Tony Yap is a dancer, director, choreographer and visual artist. Yap's residency, was based with dance/theatre companies Teatre Garasi and Bimo Dance in Yogyakarta and Rivergrass Dance Theatre in Malaysia. In Indonesia Yap conducted workshops to introduce his unique Grotowski and Butoh influenced training methods, culminating in a performace entitled Pulse. In Malaysia Yap collaborated with Rivergrass to create The Light in the Shadow that was presented at Malaysia’s premier dance festival. Since his residency, Yap has invited Indonesian dance artist Agung Gunawan to Australia to conduct workshops on classical Javanese dance and to take part in the BB05-Beyond Butoh Mini Festival at Dancehouse.

Joanna Lloyd (VIC) Pappa Tarahumara & Nibroll

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

During her residency dancer and choreographer Joanna Lloyd was based in Japan with two Tokyo contemporary dance companies, Pappa Tarahumara and Nibroll.  She collaborated and performed in seven performances of Pappa Tarahumara’s dance/theatre production Street of Crocodiles in Tokyo. Working with Nibroll’s director Mikuni Yanaihara, she conducted a contemporary dance workshop in Yokohama and choreographed a short work for 20 students. Her residency included a collaboration for a performance, Chocolate, at Super Deluxe, Tokyo. Lloyd travelled and attended performances and exhibitions by both Japanese and international companies in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

Matthew Condon (QLD)

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts & Arts Queensland

Matthew Condon is the author of ten novels and story collections, including A Night at the Pink Poodle, winner of the Steele Rudd Award for Short Fiction. Condon has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age and other leading newspapers, magazines and journals. In Japan, Condon conducted in-depth research for a novel based on the life of the controversial Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett. Burchett was the first western journalist to go into Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped and file a first-hand report on the devastation. Condon’s novel will hinge on Burchett’s journey into Hiroshima, his quest for the truth and his at times ‘skewed political fanaticism’.

Philip Brophy (VIC) Kyushu Institute of Design

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Film director, composer and sound designer Philip Brophy has initiated a range of trans-cultural projects between Australia and Japan. Brophy’s residency was hosted the Kyushu Institute of Design, Fukuoka where he developed a number of audiovisual projects involving the recording of source sounds around Tokyo as well as shooting extensive background digital footage for future audio-visual video installations and digital animation. Considerable time was also spent scripting these projects.  Brophy continued his research into Japanese cinema, music and audio vision, which involved much reading, watching and listening to contemporary and historical work.

Tory Loudon (NSW) Conversation and Co

Supported by the NSW Ministry for the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts

Tory Loudon was Producer at the Sydney Opera House at the time of her residency. In Japan she was hosted by Conversation and Co, a major producer and presenter of Japanese and international performing arts. Loudon was introduced to many Japanese contemporary dance artists and companies as well as major presenters and producers. She maintains contact with key Japanese presenters and continues to discuss presentation opportunities and collaborative projects between Australia and Japan.

Jacqueline Grenfell & Simon Ellis (VIC) Hornland Dance Theatre Company

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Dancer/choreographer Simon Ellis and sound designer Jacqueline Grenfell are artists with a particular interest in interdisciplinary work and new media. Their residency with Chen Ing Kuan's Hornland Dance Theatre Company in Sibu, Malaysia enabled them to engage with the local Chinese culture of Sarawak and create a major work Sleep, Wake, Dream, a seminar and a four-day workshop for the public. As a result of the residency Ellis has been invited back to Kuala Lumpur to perform in the Malaysian Dance Festival.

Sally Heinrich (SA) Rimbun Dahan

Supported by Arts SA and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur

Sally Heinrich has worked as a freelance illustrator for twenty years. As well as writing and illustrating children’s books, her clients have included ad agencies, design studios and government departments. During her residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia, and during side trips to Singapore, Heinrich produced an impressive volume of work, including the completion of the final draft of a YA novel Hungry Ghosts. She also collected much valuable reference material which will aid in polishing the illustrations for another forthcoming book The Most Beautiful Lantern.

Maria Cruz (NSW) Green Papaya Art Projects

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the NSW Ministry for the Arts

Maria Cruz's practice encompasses painting, video, film and installation. Cruz was born in Manila and returned to her city of birth to undertake her residency. Whilst there she had the opportunity to screen her previous work Shangrila Collective at Green Papaya Art Projects. She also researched and filmed a video adaptation of The Exorcist using Filipino actors. The resulting work was shown as a multimedia projection/installation in Sydney and the Philippines in 2005 and 2006.

Robert Nery (NSW)

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Robert Nery studied social anthropology and philosophy at Sydney University and has published film and art criticism in various magazines. Nery has made five films in various media including Black Nazarene, a feature-length video-film documenting the festival of the same name which occurs each January in Manila. During this residency Nery screened Black Nazerene and another film I Eugenia which he made with director Gabrielle Finnane. During the residency he worked on a new video installation Manila Labyrinth, which follows local Filipinos on their daily journeys. Nery also made still photographs of Manila’s architecture.

Jacinta Thompson (SA) The Esplanade

Supported by Arts SA and the Australia Council for the Arts

Jacinta Thompson was Program Executive of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival when selected for a residency. Prior to this she had worked in the areas of programming, project management and presentation of festivals, special projects and youth programs. Thompson’s four-month residency was spent in the programming department at The Esplanade in Singapore where she worked on the Malay (Pesta Raya) and Indian (Kalaa Utsayam) Festival. Working at the Esplanade gave Thompson insight into the Singapore arts industry, the opportunity to view works not necessarily accessible in Australia and to explore further the notion of cross-cultural presentations.  As part of her residency she travelled to Hong Kong and to Shanghai, where she participated in the Shanghai Arts Fair/Festival.

Terry Jaensch (VIC)

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Terry Jaensch studied acting for two years in New York at the Stella Adler Conservatory and the Herbert Berghof Studio. His one-man show, Kissing Myself, was short-listed for the 1995 Wal Cherry Award and subsequently produced by St Martin’s Theatre. His first volume of poetry Buoy, was published in 2001 and Highly Commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Anne Elder Award. During his residency in Singapore Jaensch worked with poet Cyril Wong on a volume of poetry referencing the lives of castrati opera singers, as a commentary on contemporary gay culture in both Singapore and Australia.

Donna Miller & Steve Langton (QLD) Haja Centre

Supported by Australia-Korea Foundation &  Arts Queensland

Steve Langton and Donna Miller are Hubbub, a community music group that designs and builds experimental musical instruments, primarily made from recycled materials.  Hosted by the Haja Centre, an alternative youth arts factory in Seoul, they conducted workshops in instrument making, body percussion and gumboot dance. The workshops revolved around building and performing on the Sound Playground, a collection of tuned percussion instruments made from plastic, metal, wood and recycled materials. After successful performances with the Haja troupe, the Sound Playground has been left as an ongoing and permanent music resource for the centre. The Department of Education and Culture have offered to tour the new Haja troupe to schools in the 12 provinces of Korea as an example of partnership projects.

Nick Ritar & Kirsten Bradley (VIC)

Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

Media artists Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar make work within the creative partnership, Cicada. They produce public artworks, interactive installations, live audiovisual performances and projections for theatre and dance. Ritar and Bradley used the residency to research and explore collective and individual behaviors within crowds throughout South Korea, via footage collection, audio field recording, extensive interviews and observation. Outcomes of the residency included the production of four new works and a two-week screening of eyes of other skies, a program of experimental video work by other Australian artists at the Seoul Fringe Festival and at the Gwang-ju Biennale.

Petrus Spronk (VIC)

Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

Petrus Spronk is a traditional ceramic artist and conceptual sculptor. His association with Korea began in 1999 on his first Asialink residency. In 2004 Spronk returned to Korea to undertake the project Writing the Walk, a walking tour of Korea that he documented via a web-journal, as well as in a series of articles Letters from Korea in the Daylesford Advocate. On his return, Spronk continued to inform his community about Korea through presentations to community groups and schools and with Words in Winter a public, illustrated, reading of his Korean letters. As a result of his time in Korea, Spronk has also produced a number of stories which he plans to publish accompanied by stunning photos of the Korean countryside.

Nick Drayson (ACT) Sri Lankan Natural History Society

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts & Arts ACT

Nick Drayson is a novelist and nature writer whose first novel, Confessing a Murder was critically acclaimed in the UK and US and short-listed for The Age Book of the Year Award. During his residency Drayson worked on his new novel centred on the life of naturalist George Bennett and researching the late eighteenth century connections between Colombo and Australia. Drayson arrived in Sri Lanka three weeks after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami hit the island and in between research and writing, accompanied members of the Sri Lankan Natural History Society to the east coast where they were providing care and assistance to a group of Tamil fishing families.

Niko Kelly & Belinda Newick (SA) Victorian College of the Arts

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts South Australia

Nico Kelly is a craft-based furniture and lighting designer and Belinda Newick is a jewellery designer at Zu Design Jewellery & Objects.  They undertook a joint residency to Lunuganga in Sri Lanka during which Kelly developed new designs from his research into of Sri Lankan furniture, particularly the works of Geoffrey Bawa. Newick researched aspects of traditional Sri Lankan arts and crafts that informed a series of drawings and designs for new work.

Paul Caporn (WA) Taipei Artists’ Village

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Working primarily in the fields of sculpture, animation, video and installation, Paul Caporn‘s work engages with scientific themes within the museum. During Paul Caporn’s residency at the Taipei Artists’ Village in Taiwan he mounted a solo exhibition at the Taipei Arts Festival, collaborated in a short film, participated in a group exhibition and developed new video works where he explored robotics and made collaborative work with Taiwanese artists.

Megan Walch (VIC) Khon Kaen University

Funded by Arts Victoria, the Australia Council for the Arts, and the Australian Embassy Bangkok

Megan Walch is a painter who has been artist in residence at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Taipei National University for the Arts, Taiwan. Walch’s residency at Khon Kaen University in Northern Thailand allowed her concentrated studio time to develop ideas and new work. Whilst there she created twenty small works in acrylic on canvas, collaborated with students in the sculpture department on a series of six large-scale screen prints on canvas and developed source material and sketches for future large-scale works on canvas.

Caroline Fry (VIC) Museum of Fine Arts

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Caroline Fry has been working as a painting conservator for several years and was employed at The University of Melbourne Art Conservation Centre at the time of her residency.  Fry was based at the Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi, where she worked on the restoration of a nationally significant oil painting, Little Thuy, by Tran Van Can.  She also surveyed the condition of the paintings in the collection and conducted teaching workshops for other conservators, museum personnel and museum studies students.  As a result of her work, Fry was awarded the prestigious Cultural Soldier medal for contribution to the conservation and care of artworks in Vietnam."

Rose Moxham (NSW) The Gioi Publishers

Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia Council for the Arts

At the time of her residency Rose Moxham was a writer and teacher of fiction at UTS.  She has published short stories and two novels, The Brown Ink Diary and Teeth Marks. In Hanoi, Moxham undertook research for a novel based on the early life and poetic vision of General Vo Nguyen Giap. The residency enabled her to meet writers, scholars, farmers, artists, musicians and soldiers and to imagine General Giap's Hanoi of the early and mid 20th century. Working with The Gioi publishing house Moxham was also heavily involved in writing and editing a series of bi-lingual condensed classics, a project she continues to collaborate on.

Liz Hughes (NSW) Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Japan and Korea

Supported by Arts Victoria & The Australia-Korea Foundation

Liz Hughes has a long history of working in film and digital media. As Artistic Director of Experimenta, Hughes has curated and co-curated a number of ambitious exhibitions which have toured nationally, attracting massive audiences and extensive media coverage. Hughes' residency was split between two organisations, Arts Initiatives in Tokyo and the Seoul Museum of Art in Korea. Her time in Korea was spent primarily curating and installing the 3rd Seoul International Media Art Biennale. Through meetings with Korean artists and curators, Hughes has identified Korean artists and a curator for Experimenta's Vanishing Point exhibition in Melbourne in 2005, which will tour Australia and internationally. In Japan, Hughes undertook research into Japanese artists, venues and curatorial practice.