Wen-Fu Yu

Australia

Taipei artist Wen-Fu Yu's current work uses goose down feathers to represent landscapes that remind people of the sensitivity and beauty of nature in today's technologically advanced world. Yu's practice began with ink painting in 1983. He was a pilot from 1990-1991, and in 1996 he began experimenting with oils and mixed media to express the experience of flying. Since 1999 Yu has studied in the UK and undertaken residencies in rural Taiwan, San Francisco and New York. During this time his interest in installation work using feathers developed. In 2006 Wen-Fu Yu will travel to the Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart as well as to the Arts Tasmania Wilderness Residencies in rural Tasmania.

Supported by the Australia Council, the Taipei Cultural Bureau and Arts Tasmania.

Denis Beaubois

Japan

Denis Beaubois was born in Mauritius and now lives and works in Sydney. His practice includes performance, video and photography. He has performed with groups such as the Post Arrivalist (1993-95) and Gravity Feed (1994- 2004). Beaubois holds an MA in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts UNSW and was artist-in-residence at Artist Unlimited (Bielefeld, Germany 1999) and The University of New South Wales (Sydney 2000). Beaubois' works have been screened or performed internationally in festivals. He was awarded first prize at the 1998 Bonn Videonale and the Sonderpreis at the 2001 ZKM Internationaler Medien Kunst Preis for his work titled in the event of Amnesia the city will recall... . During his residency at Youkobo Artspace he intends to work with the community on a project entitled the impossibility of a centered state in the act of falling.

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

Ben Morieson

Japan

Ben Morieson is a Melbourne artist who has exhibited and created on-site works and installations that seek to engage an uninitiated audience. By using popular marketing tools, Morieson's work invites the viewer to question the integrity of the very medium through which he seeks to communicate. He also works as a production designer and art director in film and television. Morieson has exhibited in galleries throughout Australia and in Germany, Switzerland, England and China. In 2004 he was commissioned to complete another Burnout work in Canberra. This year he completed an Australia Council residency in Barcelona, Spain, where he made videos using radio controlled cars. In Japan Morieson will make site-specific work leading up to the opening of Eichigo-Tsumari Triennial in Niigata Prefecture in late July.

Supported by the Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

Ian Haig

Korea

Ian Haig works across media, including installation, video, animation, web, sculpture and drawing. Hybrid and recombinant in approach his work explores subject matter that is at times perverse and provocative. His work focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, psychopathology and technology (both obsolete and contemporary). Over the years the trajectory of Haig's iconoclastic vision has encompassed everything from site-specific installation projects, super 8 movies, interactive sculpture, noise music, to large-scale gallery installations. His work has been exhibited in galleries and video/media festivals around the world and his animation and video work has screened in over 120 festivals internationally. At SSamzie Space, Seoul, Haig plans to research and produce a new body of kinetic based installation works.

Supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation and the Australia Council.

Glen Clarke

Malaysia

Glen Clarke's work is based on the following theory: 'The correct distance between objects is critical, whether that distance is physical, cultural or emotional. Two objects too close to eachother become one, two objects too far apart no longer relate to eachother.' He believes that 'the world is made of art materials - marshmallows, clothes pegs, chopsticks, folded money shirts - and that any one element can become one of millions of DNA building blocks.' A highly intuitive artist, he is 'intrigued by experiments with chance relationships, accidental spatial configurations, and a type of spontaneous Feng Shui.' Glen Clarke will spend his residency attached to Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur where he intends to investigate Islamic aesthetics and culture.

Supported by the Australia Council and the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur.

Megan Keating

Taiwan

Megan Keating was born in Sydney but lives and works in Tasmania where she maintains a practice that includes painting, installation and paper cutting. Keating has exhibited extensively with solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. Her work is held in the collections of Artbank, BHP Billiton, Australian Embassy, Beijing and the University of Sydney. In her second Asialink residency Keating will investigate extreme conditions and consequences of the everyday experience of living on an island. Her project proposes to locate regional and island based communities within a broader global context through the use of traditional paper-based craft practices. Keating's residency will take place at the Taipei International Artists Village.

Supported by Arts Tasmania and the Australia Council.

Alex Davies

Thailand

Alex Davies was born in Sydney, where he currently lives and works. His art practice involves sound and time-based image production, spanning a diverse range of media including film, network, real-time audio-visual manipulations and responsive installations. He has produced and presented work both nationally and internationally including Filter Feeder in Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Heterodyne and Anchortronic Performance at Garage Festival, Stralsund Germany; Swarm at ACMI, Melbourne and Drift, International Symposium on electronic Art, Baltic. His current work is based around the development of evolving audio-visual installations in which individuals and dynamic environmental factors influence the conditions of a controlled space. In Thailand Davies will be based at Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts where he will undertake spatial audio field recordings.

Supported by the Australia Council and the Australia-Thailand Institute.

Louiseann Zahra

India

Louiseann Zahra lives and works in Melbourne as a sculptor, installation artist and curator. She has recently completed a PhD at Monash University, where she held the Monash Silver Jubilee Scholarship, and has participated in many group and solo exhibitions in Australia and Paris. Zahra's work embraces a range of media and technique with a special interest in textiles, metal casting, sound, photography and film and in the themes of longevity and the ephemeral, permanence and mortality. Zahra is the Director of RMIT Project Space/Spare Room and the RMIT School of Art Gallery. In India, as well as making her own work she hopes to bring an exhibition of Indian artists back to Project Space.

Supported by the Australia-India Council and Arts Victoria.