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Foreground // Foresight presented by Asialink Arts for The Spirit of Cementa '21
Aligned to Cementa's commitment to promoting arts and cultural programs and development
in Kandos and the Mid-Western region of NSW on Friday, October 15, Asialink Arts will present two events for The Spirit of '21. Foreground // Foresight reviews the impacts and changes that have been catalysed and sustained as a result of Japan’s pioneering locally situated and internationally focused arts festivals and art platforms. Fram Kitagawa, founder of Art Front, and the world-renowned Setouchi Triennale and Echigo-Tsumari Triennial will open with a keynote presentation followed by a panel discussion
with three esteemed speakers from Japan and Australia, Teiko Hinuma, Norikazu Sato and Andrew Burns discussing community led activation and regeneration in regional locations leading to an actionable future agenda in Australia. This program is presented under Asialink Arts’ new strategic initiative Regional // Regional.
Date: Friday, 15 October 2021
Time: 12.00pm – 2.00pm AEDT
Location: Online
Afternoon Tea with suzueri – live performance and Q&A presented by Asialink Arts and RMIT University
suzueri will prepare a delicious audio-visual recipe and live-tea party with electronic sweets as part of the Mutable Ecologies public program (September to December 2021). suzueri (Elico Suzuki) is a Tokyo-based sound artist and improviser. She presents circuitous and restless performances using pianos and found objects combined with self-made instruments. Her recent interests have centred on exploring the gaps and narrative trajectories between the interaction of instruments and their embodiment. BreadBoard Baking is an edible electronic circuit cooking and instrument project run by Elico Suzuki
(suzueri), Emiko Kashiwagi (Emirie) and Naomi Kakuda.
Presented by RMIT University in partnership with Asialink Arts at The University of Melbourne and supported by CAST Research Group, RMIT University, Musashino Art University and NTT InterCommunication Center, supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Date: Thursday, 23 September 2021
Time: 4.00pm – 5.00pm AEST
Location: Online
Meet the 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians in 2021
Vietnamese-Australian actor, comedian and writer, Diana Nguyen,
has been named the overall winner of the 2021 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian Awards, for her leadership, creativity and humour in shining a light on inclusion and diversity in contemporary Australia. Read more on her message for Asian-Australians in the arts in this profile by ABC Today.
Category winner for the Arts and Culture, Juliet Burnett, an Indonesian-Australian dancer, choreographer, writer and activist, is a firm believer that an artist has a responsibility to use their creative voice to reflect the times we live in. Other awardees in the Under 40 include Chinese-Australian musician Mindy Meng Wang; Australian-Vietnamese film director, actor, martial artist and activist Maria Tran; founder and director of Pub Choir, Astrid Jorgensen; and writer and the creative director of the Centre for Stories Robert Wood.
Special mention should also be given to Reggie Ba-Pe III, a Burmese-Australian awardee under the Entrepreneurship category who is working at the intersection of Asian youth culture, entertainment, media and technology.
Woodland Ecologies Forum for Mutable Ecologies
'Woodland Ecologies' invites Australian and Japanese artists and cross-sectoral experts to explore the tactile and immaterial qualities of woodlands. In this forum invited speakers offer ways the lifeworld of forests can be understood through climate, economic activity, scientific research and spectral encounters bringing new meaning and value to their uses and preservation. The second forum, 'Inhabiting Extremes' looks at our rapidly changing local and global eco-systems and the mechanisms for adaptation and co-existence. Program details to be announced imminently at Mutable Ecologies.
Woodland Habitats: Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Inhabiting Extremes: Late November, 2021
Imagined Media Futures Podcast Series Launch
The Imagined Media Futures five part podcast series looks at how 10 leading Indian and Australian creative practitioners have adapted their businesses, built cross-cultural collaborations, and navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Going live on 29 September on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and YouTube, each episode explores the future of new media arts and discusses creative solutions for challenging new circumstances that artists and creative studios find themselves in today. Produced by Asialink Arts, Australian Consulate-General in Mumbai, and EyeMyth Festival.
International Online Symposium on Contemporary Photography, 14-16 October
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP Museum) is presenting an International Online Symposium in collaboration with the University of Melbourne and Tokyo University of the Arts as part of the exhibition Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography. Professor Natalie King OAM leads the symposium that considers the significance of contemporary photography in an increasingly fragile world which will be broadcasted on TOP Museum's YouTube channel.
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Header image 1: Andrew Burns Architect, Australia House at Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan. Photo by Brett Boardman.
Header image 2: suzueri, BreadBoard Baking. Courtesy of the artist.
Header image 3: '40 Under 40' 2021 awardees Diana Nguyen, Juliet Burnett, Mindy Meng Wang, Maria Tran, Astrid Jorgens, Robert Wood and Reggie Ba-Pe III (from left to right).
Image 5: Yoichi Kamimura, Internal Weather, 12:23, Japan, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 5: Imageined Media Futures Podcast Series 2021. Courtesy of Eyemyth Festival.
Image 6: Polixeni Papapetrou, The visitor, from the series Between Worlds, inkjet print, 2012. Courtesy of Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, and Jarvis Dooney Galerie, Berlin.