South Korea

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  Anna Horne (SA)

  Gachang Art Studio, Korea

  Supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation

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  Gachang Art Studio in Korea, Anna developed a new body of work interrogating the connections between accumulations of objects.

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  Marilyn Schneider (NSW)

  MMCA Residency Goyang, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and BigCi, NSW, Australia

  Supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation

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  developed new work, reflecting on hybrid styles and characteristics of modern architectural form.

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  Kevin Platt (NSW)

  Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation

Kevin Platt's artistic practice is built on conceptual grounding and studio-based experimentation that often manifests as non-traditional sculpture and installation, with elements of video and photography. Some consistent themes in his practice include desire and longing, speculative invention, and the presence and importance of ritual in modern society. Kevin has shown nationally and abroad and held a Firstdraft residency in 2012, and in 2013 undertook a residency at The Sydney Guild. At Goyang Art Studio Kevin will investigate the ways in which value systems have been modified by rapid socio-economic changes.

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  Anna Tregloan (NSW)

  Goyang Art Studio, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation

Designer, director and installation artist Anna Tregloan has toured Australia and worked in Edinburgh, Paris, New York, Prague, London, Kyoto, Malaysia, Belgium, Dublin and Holland.She has been awarded several Greenroom Awards, a Helpman Award, and the John Truscott Award for Excellence in Design for Theatre. Anna has worked with the State Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Back to Back, Chunky Move and Circus Oz.Her own company, the Association of Optimism, is interested in researching the limitations of language and alternative models of communications. At Goyang Art Studio, Anna will work on performance piece Sufficiently Breathless and art installation The Breath on my Neck, focusing on Korean cultural relationships with ghosts and haunting. At BigCi Anna will focus her energies on developing a sustainable artistic practice.

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  Terence Jaensch (VIC)

  SAII: Moonji Institute

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation

Terence Jaensch is a poet, actor and monologist. His first book of poetry Buoy was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award by the Fellowship of Australian Writers. In 2004 he was awarded an Asialink residency to Singapore where, with poet Cyril Wong, he co-authored the volume Excess Baggage & Claim. His work has been published in journals nationally and in the US, Germany, Japan, Singapore and India. His poems have been translated into Korean, Bengali and interpreted as classical Indian dance. His most recent collection of poetry, Shark was launched in July 2013. In Korea, Terence will undertake Sharkboy Seoul, a series of call and response poems based on Korean Sijo form.

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  Jeremy Neideck (QLD)

  The National Theatre of Korea

  Supported by Arts Queensland

Jeremy Neideck is a performance maker with a strong focus on transcultural practices and converging extreme physicality with extended vocal techniques in installed environments. Jeremy has completed residencies in Korea with MODAFE, The National Art Studio, and Seoul Art Space_Mullae. His work ‘지하 Underground’ was most recently produced by Motherboard Productions for the 2012 Brisbane Festival. His latest work ‘Deluge’ combines butoh with pansori (traditional Korean opera), and live music in a contemporary Australian context. At the NTOK Jeremy will train in pansori with lead performer Oh Min Ah, and observe the National Changgeuk Company in rehearsal for ‘Seopyeonjae’.

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  Pilar Meta Dupont (WA)

  The National Art Studio

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation & The Department of Culture and the Arts, WA

Pilar Mata Dupont is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in photography and film. She has exhibited collaborative and solo work at galleries including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; the 17th Biennale of Sydney, and in festivals such as Art Basel, Miami; and the CineB Film Festival, Chile. In 2010 she won the Basil Sellers Art Prize with Tarryn Gill for their film Gymnasium.  Her work engages with, or subverts, tropes used in storytelling through the re-imagination of collected memories/histories and mythologies, and investigates the genre of magic realism as a device to explore the effects of colonialism, nationalism, and militarised societies.  At the National Art Studio Pilar will explore collaborative opportunities with local artists.

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  Cyrus (Wai-Kuen) Tang (VIC)

  Goyang Art Studio, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

  Supported by Arts Victoria & The Australia Council for the Arts

Cyrus (Wai-kuen) Tang was born in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Australia since 2003. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, she has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Australia, Canada, Paris, Korea and Shanghai. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in the fields of video and installation. Cyrus is interested in the contradiction between the ephemeral and the permanent. During her residency in Korea, she will further her conceptual body of work that focuses on objects, materials, memory and disappearance.

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  Guy Benfield (VIC)

  Changdong Art Studio

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Guy Benfield is no stranger to arts residencies, having successfully undertaken residencies in Portugal, Lithuania, China and New York. His work spans the performing arts and installation genres, and recent exhibitions include Erratic Anthropologies in New York and Axis Bold As Love in France. At Changdong Art Studio in Seoul Guy will develop a new project incorporating sculpture, performance and video. He aims to facilitate new ideas by experimenting with different modes of presentation, workshops, and performance-based lectures.

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  Kerry Digby (NSW)

  LIG Art Hall

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

As a percussionist and arts manager with a focus on cross cultural collaboration, Kerry Digby has worked with performing artists and theatre companies from Australia, Korea and the Pacific region including REM Theatre, LATT, Pacific Wave Festival and the Sydney Festival. In her current role at the Bondi Pavilion Cultural Centre, she coordinates the Bondi Wave Youth Music Project and the Bondi Pavilion music program. She will be resident in Seoul, with LIG Arts Centre working with their programming team on developing their music program and new exchanges in 2011.

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  Locust Jones (NSW)

  National Art Studio

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Locust Jones’ drawing-based practice is inspired by global news imagery and stories. Since 1993, Jones has held over 25 solo exhibitions within Australia and internationally including in Germany, India, Lebanon, New Zealand, and the United States. His work features in several major public and corporate collections. During his residency at the National Art Studio, Changdong, he intends to investigate and incorporate Korean news media imagery to produce a series of ink drawings. Jones selected a residency in Korea due to its rich paper making culture. He plans to draw on the very fibrous Hanji paper that is made in rolls from the mulberry tree and is perfect for his large-scale drawings.

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  Robbie Avenaim (VIC)

  Balloon and Needle

  Supported by The Australia Council for the Arts

Over the past 25 years, Robbie Avenaim has been recognised in Australia and internationally as a significant and highly innovative music and sound artist. Avenaim is also a founder and co-organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, Australia's largest showcase of local and international experimental music. Avenaim has worked with a wide range of international musicians including John Zorn, and Tesuya Yoshida. His residency will be at experimental music publisher and sound event organiser Balloon and Needle, Korea, where Avenaim will work on collaborative compositional projects, a touring survey exhibition, give artists talks and perform with leading Korean sound artists.

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  David Prater (NSW)

  Korean Language Translation Institute

  Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation

David Prater is the editor of online poetry journal Cordite. His writing has appeared in a variety of Australian and international newspapers and journals, as well as online. His poem 'in a dim sea nation' was included in Best Australian Poetry (University of Queensland Press) 2003. In 2004 he completed a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, his thesis being an examination of that curious confection, marzipan. In 2005 he was an Asialink resident at Sogang University in Seoul, where he pursued his obsession with multiplayer gaming centres, PC Bangs. Prater returned to Seoul in 2009 as a guest of the Korean Language Translation Institute where he completed a first draft of a new novel, numerous new poems, and worked towards the creation of an Australian-Korean poetry anthology.

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  Leah Barclay (QLD)

  Art Centre Nabi

  Supported by Arts Queensland and The Australia Council for the Arts

Since graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium, composer and digital media artist Leah Barclay has performed, published and produced commissioned works across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe and India. She has studied with a range of international artists and been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the inaugural Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Scholarship. In residence at Art Centre Nabi, in Seoul, Barclay will draw on experience gained from working on projects that span film and theatre, interactive installations, live electronics and multi-platform production, to create a series of hybrid intercultural performances that can be diffused via broadband networks.

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  Ash Keating (VIC)

  Ssamzie Space

  Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

Ash Keating is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who integrates environmental issues within his art strategies. These vary from process-based projects, public art, performance, video, painting, photography and installations. Recent projects include Parched (2007) in Melbourne and Pascua Lama (2006) in Santiago, Chile. The focus of his residency at Ssamzie Space in Seoul involved being attentive to relevant environmental and ecological issues including exploring the aftermath and effects of the Heibei Spirit spilling 10,000 tons of oil off South Korea's west coast in late 2007. He aimed for the artwork to be unique and to raise awareness politically and environmentally.

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  Lesley Buckley (NSW)

  Andong

  Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia Council for the Arts

With 25 years in the arts, Lesley Buckley combines skills as a practising performing artist with professional experience in arts management, project development, event co-ordination and cultural planning. For the past decade, she has worked in local government and won the inaugural Brendan Hartnett Award, which recognizes distinguished effort in working with communities. Buckley was based in Andong, a centre of Korean culture and folk traditions, and hosted by the local tourism foundation to assist in the production of the Andong Maskdance Festival, which is one of Korea's premier arts events. She used this opportunity to seed the inclusion of Australian and Pacific Island region content in future festival programs.

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  Todd MacDonald (VIC)

  Wuturi Players

  Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council for the Arts

As a director, producer and (primarily) as a performer Todd MacDonald has worked across a number of different media including theatre, film, television and dance. MacDonald is the co-founder of The Store Room Theatre Workshop and is a company member of the company not yet it's difficult (NYID). The residency will allow him to witness the genesis of original work, universal in character but borne from a rich mix of traditional arts and contemporary practice. MacDonald was hosted by the Wuturi Players, a company dedicated to creating new forms of traditional theatre, and while there he gained an understanding of how they generate and structure their working process.

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  Michael Yuen (SA)

  Ssamzie Space

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation and Arts SA

Michael Yuen is an artist and curator. Formally trained as a composer, Yuen's installation-based works use a combination of abstract sound, images and experimental interactive technologies in order to create artworks grounded in perceptual experience. Yuen has exhibited nationally, including receiving commissions to work with the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the Adelaide Train Station and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. In 2006, Yuen was the Artistic Director for Project 3 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. At Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Yuen developed a new series of sensory overload installations.

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  Virginia Hyam (NSW)

  Seoul Performing Arts Festival

  Supported by The Australia-Korea Foundation

Former Melbourne Fringe Festival Director Virginia Hyam is the Executive Producer of The Studio at Sydney Opera House, curating a program of contemporary performance across the year. The Studio both produces and presents an eclectic mix of smaller scale productions, representing independent artists from across Australia and internationally. In Korea Hyam was hosted by the Seoul Performing Arts Festival and engaged with its operations and programming to build an understanding of local practice and sought out opportunities for future exchange and collaboration between Korean and Australian artists.

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  Ian Haig (VIC)

  Ssamzie Space

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

Ian Haig’s work includes installations, videos, animation, sculpture and drawing exploring subject matter that is at times perverse and provocative. His work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals worldwide and his animation and video work has screened in over 120 festivals internationally.  At Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Haig shot, edited and researched material for a new video and installation project which takes the form of a science fiction mondo documentary, exploring the language of new age mysticism, cults and alternative consciousness and their relationship to technologies of transformation.

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  Natalie Cursio (VIC)

  Theatre Company Nottle

  Supported by Arts Victoria & The Australia-Korea Foundation

Natalie Cursio is an independent choreographer, creating live performance work but also exploring dance in the context of public space, film, photography and fashion. Cursio worked as assistant director on the company Not Yet It's Difficult's cross cultural, bilingual version of K, as part of the Seoul Performing Arts Festival. In Korea she worked with three diverse Korean performing arts companies: Theatre Nottle, Doo Dance Theatre and Dance Theatre CcadoO. Collaborating with the Artistic Directors, she created new dance works, performed with the companies, led workshops, gave talks on Australian dance, and filmed material for a dance video/documentary. Cursio was invited to choreograph a new short work entitled Anonymous for Dance Theatre CcadoO, which is now a part of the company's repertoire.

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  Alexie Glass (VIC)

  Ssamzie Space

  Supported by Arts Victoria & The Australia-Korea Foundation

Alexie Glass has worked as a curator, art critic, publisher and gallery manager. She was appointed Director of the Gertrude Street Contemporary Space during her residency. As the inaugural Asialink curator-in-residence at Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Glass had unlimited access to their in-residence studio artists as well as their extraordinary archive of catalogues, artists' documentation, DVD's, slides and journals. Glass met with over 100 artists and curators, visited many exhibitions, and developed several ongoing dialogues with collegiate organisations that have provided platforms for many new partnerships, including the opportunity to participate as a contributing curator in Bitmap, a photographic exhibition at LOOP Alternative Art Space, Seoul in 2006.

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  Alison Ross (QLD)

  LATT Children's Theatre

  Supported by Arts Queensland & The Australia-Korea Foundation

Stage designer Alison Ross has designed for many Queensland companies including for drama, ballet, circus, visual and physical theatre; and outdoor, site-specific work. Ross' residency with LATT Children's Theatre, Seoul, on their production The Little Dragon combined her love of visual theatre, and her prop-making and teaching skills. Her residency, also hosted by Yongin University, included a mentorship with senior designer Taesup Lee, assisting and observing him as stage designer and lecturer in performance design. Since her residency Ross has been asked to work as the designer with a number of LATT's artists on a production for the World AIDS Day Festival in 2006 in Tanzania.

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  David Prater (VIC)

  Korea Literature Translation Institute

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

David Prater is a poet and editor of Cordite Poetry Review an online poetry journal funded by the Australia Council for the Arts. His poetry has appeared in various publications including Meanjin, The Age and Best Australian Poetry 2003. During Prater's residency at Seoul's Sogang University, he taught two highly successful courses in creative writing and Australian literature, and researched Korean internet culture, in particular PC Bangs (interactive gaming rooms). Prater created blogs written in different PC Bangs across Seoul, influenced by his gaming rooms colleagues as well as observations of everyday life in the city. Prater's blogs and other writing are currently being prepared for publication.

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  Larissa Hjorth (VIC)

  Hallym University & Ssamzie Space

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

Larissa Hjorth's practice incorporates video, photography, sound and even smell in order to explore the ways in which domestication and commodification are negotiated through everyday practices. In Seoul Hjorth worked collaboratively with artists, academics and people working in the telecommunications industry to initiate projects examining the role of mobile phones in Korea as a symbol of sociality and individualism. She conducted four projects that resulted in workshops (at Hallym University), produced video works and a catalogue entitled Snapshots and she held two open studio exhibitions at Ssamzie Space.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Emil Goh (NSW)

  Ssamzie Space

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

Emil Goh completed an honours degree in Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and a Masters degree at Goldsmiths College in London. Goh’s work can be described as the documentation of ephemeral urban phenomena. During his residency in Korea Goh was based at Ssamzie  Contemporary Art Space. There he held two open studio days, started work on a new triple video projection installation and co-curated a screening of Australian & Korean videos called One Night Stand. At the invitation of Ssamzie Goh’s residency was extended for a further three months during which time he presented his videos & photographic work in a solo exhibition entitled entroducing at Factory Arts and Crafts, Seoul and was also invited to participate in the Busan Biennale at the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum from August to November 2004.

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  Gregory Bastian (NSW)

  Sogang University English Department

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

Greg Bastian is a teacher and writer of critically acclaimed young adult fiction. His first novel for young adults was published in 1989. Whilst researching his new novel in Korea, Bastian presided over the publication of an anthology of stories written by creative writing students and funded by the Sogang University English Department. The university had never before offered a creative writing class in English and the result is a delightfully eclectic Korean-flavoured fiction.

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  Rodney Glick (WA)

  Ssamzie Space

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

Over the past twenty years, Rodney Glick has endeavoured to redefine the nature of his art by undertaking numerous collaborations and exploring non-traditional outlets. One example is the Glick International Collection, which, together with writer David Solomon, tested the high seriousness of art institutions and their emphasis on texts and the artist's biography. Ssamzie Space in Seoul, Korea was the host for the Glick's residency where he created a new multimedia and video work documenting daily activities of the local community within this cultural and urban context. The dual syncronised DVD projection is entitled 'LIFE plus TV' was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in February, 2004.

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  Simon Barker (NSW)

  Muju, Chegu Do & Phoenix Park jazz festivals

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

Simon Barker is a drummer, percussionist and composer who has toured throughout East Asia over the last ten years. In 1999, Barker organised a concert in Seoul featuring Korean master drummer, Kim Dae Hwan. His residency in Korea enabled him to continue to work with Kim Dae Hwan to create an “Australia Stage” at the Muju, Chegu Do and Phoenix Park jazz festivals. He also worked to create an ensemble dedicated to performing new music by Australian and Korean contemporary artists and on developing an event showcasing Korean and Australian jazz musicians. During the residency Barker also conducted many workshops and became a member of two ensembles that performing around South Korea.

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  Annie Greig (TAS)

  Son Mu Ga Zen Dance Company

  Supported by Arts Tasmania, the Australia Korea Foundation and the Australia Council for the Arts

At the time of her residency Annie Greig held the position of Artistic Director of contemporary dance company, TasDance. In Seoul Greig worked with the Son Mu Ga Zen Dance Company where she undertook an intensive workshop and master class series with Artistic Director, Dr Sun Ock Lee and assisted her with the administration of the workshop series and to explore cultural exchange possibilities. In May 2002, Greig was invited back to co-convene the Asia-Pacific Performing Arts Network 4th International Festival and Symposium with Dr Sun Ock Lee, at which Tasdance also performed. As a result, Tasdance was invited to perform at the fourth Australia-Korea Forum held for the first time in Tasmania in 2002.

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  Chris Murphy (NSW)

  REM Theatre & Sadari Theatre

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

Chris Murphy is a Sydney based performance practitioner who has worked as a performer/devisor with a number of theatre companies including REM Theatre, Theatre Kantanka, Salamanca Theatre Company and Legs on the Wall. She was a core member of REM Theatre, performing, writing and co-directing new works with the company. Murphy spent three months in Korea creating and performing Frozen Girl, a collaboration between in Seoul. Murphy also worked with theatre students at Yong-In University, Seoul, teaching and developing a new performance work, Chang Mun An Ui Do Shi (The City In The Window), and also attended classes at the National Centre for Korean Traditional Performing Arts.

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  Meredith Rowe (VIC)

  Kookmin University

  Supported by the Australia Korea Foundation, Arts Victoria & the Australia Council for the Arts

Meredith Rowe is a textile designer, best known to the Australian fashion industry as cofounder of Vixen Australia (with Georgia Chapman), an award-winning and internationally acclaimed partnership. Rowe undertook an Asialink residency at Kookmin University. The residency involved teaching in the Fashion Department at Kook Min University and developing four different bodies of work exploring her fascination for both traditional craft forms and the elements of global and industrial culture. While in Korea she organised a residency in Australia for Korean artist Inhwan Oh to come to Sydney and set up other projects to maintain bilateral links. Additionally she curated an exhibition of Australian textile/fashion designers for Fashion Centre Korea and exhibited her own work developed in Korea at Westspace, Melbourne.

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  Richard Giblett (VIC)

  SSamzie Space

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

Richard Giblett was the first foreign resident at SSamzie Space, Seoul. During his residency Giblett produced photographic, installation and paper-based work that responded to both the physical and imaginative geographies of Seoul. Giblett recorded his surroundings with a plastic ‘Joycam’ polaroid camera and the resulting photographs were included in the exhibition The Yellow Sea. The exhibition also included work based on numbers - the yellow telephone numbers on advertising stickers around Seoul being the only script decipherable by the artist - and drawing based work relating to the zeros and ones in digital technology.

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  Warren Flynn (WA)

  Sogang University

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

Warren Flynn is a children’s writer from Albany, Western Australia. His Gaz series and Different Voices are popular fiction texts used in secondary schools throughout Australia. Whilst in Seoul he was hosted by the English Department at Sogang University where he taught A Look Into Australia, on contemporary Australian culture and writing. During the residency Flynn drafted a new novel for older teenagers that explores the theme of space - personal, cultural and physical spaces - in Korea. He found the opportunity to interact with students and ordinary Koreans, interview architects and develop his ideas invaluable.

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  Andrea Kleist (VIC)

  Artsonje Centre

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Andrea Kleist has worked extensively in the areas of Visual Arts, film and public relations in Australia. At the time of her residency she was the Exhibitions Manager at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and previously held the position of  Executive Officer of the Visual Arts Program for the Adelaide Festival 1998 & 2000.  In Korea Kleist worked with the Artsonje Centre in Seoul on a range of  projects focussing on the solo exhibition Stockexchange II by Korean-French artist Kim Soun-Gui and Artsonje’s contribution to MAAP’s 2000 online conference.

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  Don'o Kim (NSW)

  Sogang University

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

Don'o Kim is a Korean-born writer and translator who has lived in Australia for many years. He has published three novels My Name is Tian, Password and The Chinaman, all of which have been translated into Korean. He has also written plays, screenplays, short stories and libretti, and his play, The Bell of Korea, is being produced this year by the renowned Hak-Chon Theatre during the Seoul International Theatre Festival in September. Kim is currently working on The Grand Circle, a novel exploring the politics and the personal turmoil of reunification in Korea and Korea's relationship with Australia. Kim used his time in Seoul to complete this work and to teach Korean students about Australian culture and literature.

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  Gai Bryant (NSW)

  Jang-Hyun Won, Master of Taegum

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

Gai Bryant is a saxophonist from Sydney. With her own quartet she has undertaken three successful tours of Asia between 1996-98, performing original contemporary jazz compositions and playing with local musicians in Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. During her residency, Bryant worked with Jang-Hyun Won, an acclaimed Master of Taegum (transverse flute) and composed seven pieces incorporating Taegum, traditional percussion and song forms with jazz quartet and harmony. These pieces were performed in Korea and Sydney.

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  Martin Kwasner (NSW)

  Korean National University of the Arts

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

Martin Kwasner has worked as a dancer, choreographer and teacher with dance companies, teaching institutions and independent dance artists including 2 Dance Plus, Danceworks, Dance Compass, Didi Koi and the Victorian Arts Centre’s Winter Arts Program. He has taught students from preparatory to tertiary standards as well as professional dancers and adults of all levels of experience. During his residency in Korea Kwasner worked with dancers, choreographers and students in a Visiting Professor role at the School of Dance, Korean National University of the Arts. He has been invited to return to work with the School in 2001, prior to which he will be involved in a dance exchange in Osaka through Keiko Aoki’s Global Japan Network.

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  Petrus Spronk (VIC)

  Kook Min University

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

Petrus Spronk is a both a traditional ceramic artist and conceptual sculptor who has been influenced by the techniques and traditions of North Asian pottery and religion. His woodfired, earthenware  bowls are burnished rather than glazed and often broken and reassembled to create a compositional effect. During his residency Spronk lived and worked in Seoul, based at Kook Min University for six months.  During that time he taught extensively, exhibited his work and wrote a fortnightly column for the his local newspaper, The Daylesford Advocate. Since his residency Spronk has returned to Korea twice: to present a paper to a Private Art school International Conference and to present a summer school workshop for Unesco.

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  Solrun Hoaas

Solrun Hoaas migrated to Australia from Norway via Japan in 1972. She has worked as a teacher, academic and journalist, and then began filming in Okinawa in 1978. She has since written, produced and directed several documentaries, including Sacred Vandals, Green Tea and Cherry Ripe, Pyongyang Diaries and the feature film, Aya. While in Seoul, Hoaas worked on an original feature film script and a documentary. She also gave lectures and film screenings and attended film festivals. In 2001 she completed the documentary Rushing to Sunshine which reflects changes in South Korea in the wake of the ‘sunshine policy’ and increased contact with North Korea.

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  Steve Tepper (WA)

  Kook Min University

  Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts & the Australia Korea Foundation

Steve Tepper is a furniture maker and sculptor. As well as maintaining a more personal art practice Tepper has travelled extensively in Asia and Europe often working with architects and planners on large public and urban commissions. During his residency at Kook Min University in Seoul in 1999, Tepper taught metal craft students and pursued his furniture design practice influenced directly by the visual stimulation of the market places and shop displays. He participated in a group exhibition of 24 Korean artists titled Silver and Gold for Living within the Happy World department store. He gave several slide talks about his work and Australian furniture design in both informal and formal settings at universities and participated in the 1999 Fusion and Vision Furniture Conference.

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  Noelle Janaczewska (NSW)

  Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts

Noëlle Janaczewska is a multi-award winning Sydney-based writer whose plays, radio scripts and libretti have been performed and broadcast throughout Australia and overseas. During her residency in Korea Janaczewska created two new theatre works Connie And Kevin and The Secret Life Of Groceries, and Pyongyang Affair which was produced by ABC Radio National in 2002 and short-listed for the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and nominated for a 2003 AWGIE Award. The residency also helped the development of a large-scale music-theatre script: The River Skaters.

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  Yenda Carson (QLD)

  The Kookmin University

  Supported by the Visual Arts & Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Korea Foundation

Glass/installation artist, Yenda Carson spent four months In 1998 at The Kookmin University, Korea.

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  Roger Rynd (NSW)

  Seoul Arts Centre

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

At the time of his residency at the Seoul Arts Centre in 1997, Roger Rynd was the artistic director of REM Theatre which specialised in working in cross-cultural and cross-artform methods. Rynd’s residency in Korea was with the Seoul Arts Centre where he worked with the Sadari Theatre, Korea’s pre-eminent company producing work for young people. Together they created Chingdomari which received the 1997 ASSITEJ award for Best Play, Best Male Actor, Best Design for Korea and the 1998 Seoul Audience Award for Best Play. The play is in repertoire in Korea and it is hoped that Sadari and REM may bring the production to Australia. Rynd’s experience during the residency enabled him to move to Korea to take up the position of Artistic Director, LATT Children’s Theatre in Seoul.

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  Wilma Tabacco (VIC)

  Kookmin University

  Supported by the Visual Arts & Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Korea Foundation

Painter Wilma Tabacco, spent four months at Kookmin University.

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  Carlier Makigawa (VIC)

  Kookmin University

  Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts

Carlier Makigawa, one of Australia's foremost contemporary metal smiths, spent three months based at Kookmin University.  There she worked with students and also held seminars and lectures on Australian craft and metalwork. She held a one-person exhibition, Flower and Flame, at the Craft House Gallery and her work was included in a major Australian craft exhibition at the Seoul Arts Centre.  Both exhibitions received wide media coverage.

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  Yvonne Boag (NSW)

  Chung Ju University

  Supported by the Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Korea Foundation

Painter/printmaker Yvonne Boag first went to Korea in 1993. During her residency she spent four months at Chung Ju University. Boag has since worked as a visiting Professor of Painting at Ewha University, Seoul and as a Professor at Seoul National University of Technology. In October 2005 a retrospective exhibition of Boag's work, inspired by ten years of engagement with Korea, was held at Stonnington Stables in Melbourne.