No better time to discuss the environment No images? Click here The tactile and immaterial qualities of woodland habitats as part of Mutable EcologiesDiscussion 3: Join us for the final discussion of the Woodland Habitats series next Wednesday, 3 November. Filmmaker and artist Polly Stanton presents 'Elegy for an Occupied Forest’ discussing how pine plantations present eerie life worlds profoundly shaped and recomposed by the productions of capital. They are vibrant sites that remake the forest into a strange and occupied landscape of human-made modification and disturbance. Following her short talk is a discussion with Ainu artist Kohei Fujito and Song Woman and Story Teller, Yorta Yorta woman Ruth Langford. Polly Stanton explores these complex forest assemblages through the moving image work Indefinite Terrains (2019), which traces the delicate ecologies and entanglements of the Moonlight Flat Pine Plantation in Dja Dja Wurrung country (Central Victoria, Australia). By recounting the process of working with these spaces, as well as thinking alongside a number of writers and theorists, Polly considers the plantation as an ecotone of submerged histories and indeterminate futures. The discussion will include simultaneous audio translation in English and Japanese. Date: Wednesday, 3 November 2021 Inhabiting ExtremesSAVE THE DATE for the final public forum for Mutable Ecologies. Speakers include: Miranda Nieboer, Affiliated researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) – University of Tasmania (UTAS); Fumitaka Nishino; Motoko Okumoko, Hokkaido University Communicators in Science and Technology Education Program (CoSTEP); Yoshihiro Nakayama, ÙInstitute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University; and Malte Wagenfeld, School of Design, RMIT University. Stay tuned for more information to be announced. Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2021 The tactile and immaterial qualities of woodland habitats and Inhabiting Extremes form a part of Mutable Ecologies. The programs are presented by Asialink Arts and RMIT University, supported by CAST Research Group, RMIT University and the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Meet the '40 Under 40' Winners of 2021We are excited to bring together the 2021 Award Winners and one of the judges of the 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians this Thursday, 28 October 2021 in partnership with CPA Victoria Young Professionals Network Discussion Group (CPA VIC YPN DG) and Australia China Young Professionals Initiative (ACYPI). Join us to celebrate in conversation with five star panellists on their unique Asian-Australian leadership journey. Moderated by Judy Gao, Founder & Chair of CPA VIC YPN DG, you will meet Pippa Dickson (Director of Asialink Arts), one of the 2021 judges of the 40 Under 40
Award; Actor, comedian, and writer Diana Nguyen, 2021 Overall Winner; Nancy Yang (Deputy Consul General, Australian Consulate-General, Chengdu), 2021 Winner of Public Sector/Government; CEO and Founder, Hacker Exchange (HEX) Jeanette Cheah, 2021 Category Winner of Entrepreneurship; and Lisa Teh (Director and Founder, CODI Agency & Lisnic), 2021 Winner of Entrepreneurship. Date: Thursday, 28 October 2021 BOOK LAUNCH – The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for ChangeLASALLE College of the Arts presents the launch of The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change, edited by Stephanie Burridge, which documents and celebrates artistic journeys that exist within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices. The authors share multiple perspectives and insights from their roles as performing artists, Date: Wednesday, 3 Nov 2021 APT10 – Asia Pacific Art Papers: Contemporary Contexts, Practices and IdeasQueensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) presents Asia Pacific Art Papers: Contemporary Contexts, Practices and Ideas to celebrate the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10). A three-part digital resource offer new insights into the changing conditions and practices of artists in the region, assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Opening on Saturday 4 December, APT10 will include 69 projects with new and recent work by more than 150 emerging and established artists, collectives and filmmakers from more than 30 countries. Read the APAP Papers below. Asialink Arts elevates the agency and capability of the Australian arts sector to engage with Asia, through insight, connections, and enhanced capability. Stay connected for all our upcoming initiatives and be part of our creative journey unfolding across the region. Asialink Arts programs have been supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Asialink Arts acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the Land and recognises their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past and present on whose lands we work across Australia. |