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Asialink Arts Exhibition Touring Program 1991 - 2004
Alternative Realities: Australian artists working with technology
Five artists from Sydney and Melbourne who explore issues connected
to digital media and video within art and society, touring to ten
venues during 1995-6.
Affinities: eleven artists from Korea and Australia
A bilateral touring exhibition shown in Australia and Seoul in 1997-8,
generated from participating artists residency connections.
Art & Land: Contemporary Australian
Visions
Curated by Kevin Wilson of Noosa Regional Gallery Art & Land
is an exhibition of 21 Australian artists who explore a wide array
of cultural issues around the idea of the land through painting,
drawing, sculpture and sound. The exhibition toured to five venues
in Asia in Thailand, Laos and The Philippines in 2000 and continued
touring in Australia in 2001.
10th Asian Biennale, Bangladesh
Comprising artworks and stand-alone exhibitions from 42 countries,
the Bangladesh Biennale has been running successfully in Dhaka since
the early 1980s with Australia first participating in 1995. In January
2002 Craig Walsh represented Australia in this exhibition held at
the Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh with his video installation,
Blurring the Boundaries. Margo Neale, an Aboriginal curator and
Program Director of the Gallery of First Australians, at the National
Museum of Australia also attended, presenting a paper at the Biennale
conference 'Indigenous Art: Traditions, Identity, Challenges'.
Aurora: Australian wood metal glass fibre ceramics
A contemporary craft exhibition touring to ten venues in Korea,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia,
1996-8.
Australia: Familiar and Strange
An exhibition of ten leading contemporary artists curated by Tim
Morrell, Queensland Art Gallery showing in Seoul in 1996.
Australia Gold: Contemporary Australian Metalwork
An exhibition of Australia's leading jewellers and metal workers
which toured to South East and North Asia and Melbourne in 1993-4.
Body and Soul: Prints by Vera Zulumovski & Phillip Doggett-Williams
A small two person exhibition of contemporary printmaking which
toured to ten venues in South and South East Asia, 1995-7.
Changing Places: cross-cultural art from Australia
An exhibition of five Australian and international artists who were
living and working in the Northern Territory, touring to three venues
in Malaysia 1995.
Circling the Square: Contemporary Metalwork by the
Gray Street Workshop
A retrospective celebrating 15 years of contemporary Australian
metalwork and jewellery design by Adelaide's Gray Street Workshop.
The exhibition toured Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and
Brunei in 2001 and 2002.
Common Wealth of Art International Exhibition
Works by two important contemporary painters, Queenie Mckenzie and
Tim Johnson representing Australia in Kuala Lumpur during the 1998
Commonwealth Games.
Dancing Up Country: The art of Dorothy Napangardi
An exhibition curated by Vivienne Webb from the Museum of Contemporary
Art. This retrospective exhibition of Napangardi’s work, her
first major solo museum exhibition, toured to the Vietnam Fine Arts
Museum and the Malaysia National Art Gallery in 2003.
Di antara dua pedalaman / Between Remote Regions
Curated by Niranjan Rajah (Kuching), Sharifah Zuriah Aljeffri (Kuala
Lumpur) & Justine van Mourik (Country Arts SA, Adelaide), this exhibition
was a large collaboration with 32 artists from Australia and Malaysia
and focusing on the art made in regional towns of both countries.
The exhibition toured to 12 venues and included the work of:
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Eva Wanganeen,
Waterhole/Mata Air, 1999
Batik on silk/batik atas sutera
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Malaysian Artists:
Sylvester Wielding Ak Jussem (Sarawak)
Zaimie b Sahibil (Sabah)
Bangie ek Embol (Sarawak)
Raphael Scott Ahbeng (Sarawak)
Mohammed b Ambi (Sarawak)
Nancy ak Ngali (Sarawak)
Sarimah bt Hj Samad (Sabah)
Rohani bt Ukon (Sabah)
Kumbu anak Katu (Sarawak)
Silvester Ikun & Kilanbt Husman (Sabah)
Adrian Dominic Fui Ken Ho (Sabah)
Bong Choo Chew (Sarawak)
Datu Ruslan Sulai (Sabah)
Jainal b Amambing (Sabah)
Magdalene Tai (Sarawak)
Dato' Mohammed Yaman Hj Ahmad Mus (Sabah)
Norman Choo (Sarawak)
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Australian Artists:
Ian Abdulla (Barmera)
Eva Wanganeen (Clare)
Billy Cooley (Amata)
Niningka Lewis (Kalka)
Mona Mitakiki (Amata)
Siv Grava (Andamooka)
Hayden Jarrett (Andamooka)
Yvonne Koolmatrie (Winkie)
Elizabeth Doidge (Mannum)
Katie Curley (Fregon)
Kaltijiti rugs (Fregon)
Margaret Dagg (Ernabella)
Nyukana Baker (Ernabella)
Yilpi Marks (Ernabella)
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Dinosaur
Designs
Enjoin: to join in, to urge
An exhibition and performance of predominantly Queensland artists
in Manila 1998, returning to show in Cairns in April-May 1999.
Eyes on ASEAN
120 photographs by 67 photographers from the then six ASEAN countries
touring to five Australian cities in 1994-5.
Fire and Life
Five Australian artists, from Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne
and Perth, travelled to India in September l996 undertaking month
long residencies working with a partnered Indian colleague in New
Delhi, Mumbai, Madras, Calcutta and Bangalore, and preparing an
exhibition in each city as part of the Australia India New Horizons
promotion. Reciprocal residencies and exhibitions took place with
the same paired artists in Australia in 1997.
Flow / Arus
An exhibition co-curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe (Art Gallery of NSW)
and Zanita Anuar (Balai Seni Lukis Negara) of ten artists from Australia
and Malaysia who work with digital media shown at BSLN (National
Art Gallery) in Kuala Lumpur from 31 March - 23 April 2000.
Giao Luu/Confluence: An exhibition of Australian and Vietnamese
artists with common links
Work by 17 artists who have engaged with each other's countries
over several years were brought together in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh
City in 1997 to examine the influences of their cultural exchanges.
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Foundations
of Gold
The Foundations of Gold project was initiated by the City
of Melbourne in partnership with The Asialink Centre of The
University of Melbourne and RMIT Gallery of RMIT University.
Curated by Beatrice Schlabowsky, Suzanne Davies, Jeff Taylor,
Rachel Young and Alison Carroll, Foundations
of Gold is an exhibition pairing five artists from
Osaka, Mumbai, Singapore, Manila and Seoul with counterparts
in Melbourne to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the discovery
of gold in Victoria. Each pair worked together for a month
with the resulting work shown in Melbourne at RMIT Gallery
in July 2001. The exhibition then toured to the home cities
of each artist. The artists are Ki-Ra
Kim, Pamela
Stadus, Blanche Tilden, Makiko Mitsunari, Brenda
Fajardo, Caroline
Williams, Monika
Correa, Georgia
Chapman, Eugene
Chua Gin-Minn and Simon
Cottrell. |
I thought
I knew but I was wrong: New Video Art from Australia
Internal Travel
An exhibition project by South Australian artists Hossein and Angela
Valamanesh, at the National College of Art, Lahore, Pakistan 16
- 30 November 1999
Dennis Bezzant's catalogue for Kawing, designed by
Claire Pallant, Darwin
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Kawing:
artists linking Darwin to Cebu, Baguio, Manila, Puerto Princesa
and Davao
Kawing is
Tagalog for 'link', a title that reflects the intention of
curator Cath Bowdler, 24 Hour Art Gallery, who selected four
Darwin artists to travel for one to two months in 2001 to
a regional Filipino city to exhibit and make new work. The
artists, Techy Masero, Winsome Jobling, Dennis Bezzant and
Jacki Fleet all worked in various venues in Davao, Baguio,
Cebu & Puerto Princesa in 2001 and 2002 showing in a total
of nine exhibitions during this time. From 11 October to 2
November 2002 the works these artists and the Filipino artists
they had collaborated with were shown in two exhibitions at
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Korea-Australia Visual Arts Program 1994-9
Primarily funded by the Australia Korea Foundation, this project
included exhibitions, journalist tours, residencies and secondary
and tertiary art teachers' exchanges. Organisations involved were
state, university and commercial galleries, art schools, secondary
schools and other educational bodies in Korea and Australia. Individual
exhibitions within the project were:
Affinities: eleven artists from Korea and Australia
Aurora
Australia: Familiar and Strange
Neil Taylor and Doh Heung-Rok
Sense/Duration of Sense
Slowness of Speed:
Contemporary Korean Art
Unhomely
Victorian College Of The Arts/ Hong Ik Exchange
Voices of the Earth
Location: contemporary photo based work from Australia
Containing innovative approaches to photography, video and projection
this exhibition toured within Australia and to Japan, the Philippines,
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia in 1993-4.
Neil Taylor and Doh Heung-Rok
An exhibition in 1996 of work by sculptors, Neil Taylor and Doh
Heung-Rok selected by curator, Chung Mie-Young, Director of Posco
Gallery, Seoul.
Other Stories: Five Australian Artists
An exhibition of paintings and installation work focussing on narrative,
touring to seven venues in South Asia in 1997-8.
Peter Callas: anti-terrain
Peter Callas is a pioneer of video art and one of the Australia's
most celebrated artists. This exhibition, curated by Stuart Koop,
provides an overview of the technology and diverse cultural subject
matter in Callas' work since 1986. Colin Khoo from The Star described
Anti-Terrain as exploring "…themes as diverse as the globalisation
of the media, technological development, nationalism and international
cultural relations inspired from his travels in countries and cultures
as diverse as Japan and Brazil." Callas was given the rare
opportunity of a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern
Art (NGMA) in India as part of the tour, where he also gave a two-hour
presentation in the gallery's auditorium. The exhibition toured
to Malaysia, China and India in 2002.
Patterning: In Contemporary Art, Layers of Meaning
An exhibition which examined traditional and contemporary use of
patterns through painting, sculpture, ceramics, digital technology,
textiles. The Australian component was matched in three other countries
by local exhibitions on the same theme in 1997-8.
People in a Landscape: Contemporary
Australian Prints
An exhibition of prints by contemporary Australian artists which
toured to venues in Singapore, Columbo, Khon Kaen, Bangkok and Chiang
Mai in 2001 and 2002.
Photographica Australis
Rapport: Eight Artists from Singapore
and Australia
Asialink's first full bilateral exchange. Begun in 1994 and showing
in 1996-7 the two curators co-selected all of the artists and expenses
for the project were also shared by the institutions and funding
bodies from both countries.
Sacred ground
beating heart: Works by Judy Watson 1989-2003
Saisampan
(Soul Ties): Australian and Thai Artists in Collaboration
An exhibition pairing four Australian artists with four Thai artists,
held at the Chiang Mai University Art Museum in March 2002.
Sekali Lagi
An exhibition and residency project involving a return visit of
eight artists who had undertaken Asialink Visual Arts/Craft Residencies
in Malaysia since 1991. Artists spent a month from late July 1999
in Malaysia making new work which showed at Rimbun Dahan in Kuang
(outside KL) from 21 August - 21 September 1999.
Sense/Duration of Sense
A project involving two Korean and two Australian artists each contributing
a curated solo exhibition and each showing at the Centre for Contemporary
Photography in Melbourne and the Whan-ki Museum in Seoul in 1997.
Shifting Ground - Mike Parr
A solo exhibition and performance in Manila in 1995 by one of Australia's
most senior conceptual artists. Curated by David Bromfield, University
of Western Australia.
6 x 6: A Selection of Contemporary Australian Prints
An exhibition of works by six printmakers which toured to four venues
in regional Thailand and Australia during 1992-3.
Slowness of Speed: Contemporary Korean Art
The second part of the NGV / ArtSonje Center's exchange featuring
the work of seven Korean artists whose works combine references
to traditional and contemporary life, defined in terms of time and
distance. The exhibition was shown at the National Gallery of Victoria
in 1998/9 and the Art Gallery of NSW in June 1999.
Symbol and Narrative: Contemporary Australian Textiles
Featuring the work of four textile artists from Perth and Melbourne,
touring to Thailand, Nepal and India during 1995.
Time
out of Joint
An exhibition featuring the works of five female artists, Caroline
Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang, Helga Groves, Nelia Justo, Hanh Hgo and Trinh
Vu, exploring themes of dislocation and broken narratives. Organised
in partnership between Asialink and Gabriel Gallery in Footscray
and curated by Carmen Grostal, the exhibition was shown at the Hanoi
University of Fine Art Gallery in 2003.
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Catalogue Cover image:
Details from the photographic series Laudanum, 1998,
reproduced as duotone
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Tracey
Moffatt
An exhibition curated by Michael Snelling, Director of the
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. This solo retrospective
exhibition opened in Brisbane in September 1999 and toured
to Korea and Taiwan.
Seoul: Artsonje Centre (February - April 2001); Kyongju: Artsonje
Museum (May - July 2001); and Taipei: Taipei Fine Art Museum
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Transcultural Painting
An exhibition of four artists whose work interprets various aspects
of North Asian visual culture, touring to five Chinese cities and
Melbourne in 1994-5.
A Transit Through Paradise
A exhibition project by South Australian artist Fiona Hall, curated
by Suhanya Raffel of the Queensland Art Galleryheld in Gallery 706,
Colombo, Sri Lanka: 5 - 28 November 1999.
Unwrapped
Unhomely
An exhibition of 11 Australian artists curated by the National Gallery
of Victoria which toured to Seoul and Kyongju in 1998, exploring
ideas of habitat and identity.
Vibration: Works by Three Contemporary
Australian Women Artists.
An exhibition of work by three artists from Melbourne and Perth
examining feminine forms of abstraction, touringto four venues in
North Asia and Australia during 1995-6.
Victorian College
Of The Arts/ Hong Ik Exchange
A residency and exhibition exchange between artists and senior lecturers
Young Kil Yim, Assistant Professor, Print Making Department, Hong
Ik University, Seoul and Jon Cattapan, Head Drawing Department,
Victorian College
Vietnam: A Project by Geoff Lowe
and Rozalind Drummond
A two person exhibition in collaboration with local Vietnamese artists
shown in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Adelaide and Melbourne in 1992-3.
Voices of the Earth
An exhibition of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal work owned
and curated by Gabrielle Pizzi, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi showing
in Seoul in 1996.
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