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Announcing the 40 Under 40 Awards Winners in 2021
The 40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian-Australians Awards recognise the achievements of young Asian-Australian leaders in their fields from Arts & Culture, Community & Advocacy
to Public Sector and Science. We will also introduce the inaugural Under 25 Rising Star, recognising the contribution and impact of impressive emerging young leaders. An initiative of Asialink at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, Johnson Partners and PwC Australia, now in its third year, the 40 Under 40 Awards seek to reshape the debate and confront Australia’s “bamboo ceiling”, the underrepresentation of Asian-Australians in leadership positions. Register below and join us to celebrate the inspiring winners in 2021.
Date: Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm AEST
Location: Online
"Cultural Heritage: Regional Identity and Collective Memory" at Artlands 2021
Artlands, Australia’s largest regional arts gathering for over two decades, showcases artists and highlights the creative and cultural sector across regional, rural and remote Australia. As Artlands 2021 focuses on ‘The Space Between’ exploring the contextual link between people, place and practice, we are hosting a hybrid panel on Friday, 3 September Cultural Heritage – Regional Identity and Collective Memory. The panel invites speakers Mikaela Jade (Cabrogal woman, Founder and CEO of Indigital), long-term collaborators Kim Hak (Cambodian photography artist) and Pip Kelly (Australian film maker, curator and Asialink alumni). The session
will share insights on cultural heritage and notions of identity and the collective memory as important to narratives of a region and community moderated by Dr Pippa Dickson (Director of Asialink Arts).
Date: Friday, 3 September
Time: 4.00pm AEST
Location: Online / Hotel Grand Chancellor Launceston, lutruwita (Tasmania)
Jala Adolphus, Manager Projects and Development at Asialink Arts
We are thrilled to announce that Jala Adolphus joined us in the role of Manager Projects and Development. Jala has spent the last 8 years between Indonesia and international touring circuits as an independent producer and editor. Jala is committed to arts discourse and supporting practitioners and organisations across all arts sectors, her focus within the Asia Pacific region is combined with extensive international networks of artists, presenters, practitioners, institutions and funding bodies. Welcome Jala!
Mutable Ecologies
Mutable Ecologies exhibition is launching September 16. This bi-lateral Australia-Japan collaborative project led by RMIT with NTT InterCommunication Center, Musashino Art University and Asialink Arts considers how innovations in art are interrogating the effects of changing environmental conditions and ecological futures. Artists include Don’t Follow the Wind, Hikaru Fujii, Yoichi Kamimura, Yuko Mohri, Clinton Naina, Yhonnie Scarce and Polly Stanton. Stay tuned for the public program and forums in October and December 2021.
Foreground // Foresight: Cementa x Asialink Arts
Save the date for two sessions exploring regional arts and culture led transformation – an upcoming keynote presentation by Fram Kitagawa, Chairman of Art Front Gallery and General Director of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan, and a panel discussion with Teiko Hinuma, Norikazu Sato, and Andrew Burns presented online on 15 October.
Date: Friday, 15 October 2021
Time: From 12.00pm AEDT | 10am Tokyo
"Reversible Destiny" at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Reversible Destiny: Australian and Japanese contemporary photography, curated by Natalie King OAM and Yuri Yamada, is now showing at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum until 31 October 2021. Artists from both Australia and Japan feature including; Maree Clarke, Rosemary Laing, Polixeni Papapetrou, Val Wens, Ishiuichi Miyako, Katayama Mari, Hatakeyama Naoya and Yokomizo Shizuka. It is part of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Cultural Olympiad. Stay tuned for the International Online Symposium 4-6 October.
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Header image 1: Dr Muneera Bano, 40 Under 40 overall winner in 2019, Asian-Australian Leadership Summit, 2019. Courtesy of Asialink.
Header image 2: Jala Adolphus. Photo by Joel Benguigui.
Header image 3: Hak Kim, Portrait of Nov Oeub as part of the "Alive" series Chapter II Australia, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 4: Christian Boltanski & Jean Kalman, Last Class, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan, 2006. Photo by T. Kuratani.
Image 5: Yoichi Kamimura, Internal Weather, 12:23, Japan, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 6: Maree Clarke, The long journey home 2, Inkjet print, 80 x 120cm, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery.