Asialink currently facilitates 3 reciprocal residencies between Australia and Asia.
Since 2010 Asialink has partnered host organisations around Australia with hosts in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In 2012 Asialink will be announcing a new reciprocal residency in WA.
Residents applying to the host organisations below should be aware that they will be awarded a $9,000 grant towards their airfare, daily living expenses and materials. Up to $3,000 in-kind support will be offered by the Asian host organisation in the form of accommodation, hosting, studio space and exhibition/project costs.
Please note that artists from Asia cannot directly apply for this program to Asialink. Artists from Japan, Korea and Taiwan are proposed to Asialink by our international host partners on an annual basis.
Japan - Melbourne
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Korea - Sydney
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Taiwan
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Japan
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ALICIA KING (TAS) JAPAN
TOKYO WONDER SITE, TOKYO
Alicia King is an interdisciplinary artist exploring biological relationships between humans, animals, and that which generally lies outside the everyday category of the ‘living’. Recent works explore relationships between biotech practices and the physical, ethical and ritual body. Alicia has exhibited throughout Australia and beyond, most recently in VISCERAL at Science Gallery, Dublin. Alicia has undertaken various International residencies including Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Foundation BAD, Rotterdam; SymbioticA; and in the Galapagos Islands. At Tokyo Wonder Site Alicia will develop a new visual and conceptual mythology for technologically mediated and transformed flesh, drawing from historic and contemporary Japanese animism.
www.aliciakingblog.blogspot.com
SUPPORTED BY ARTS TASMANIA AND THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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The vision splendid 2010-11
Portable glass bioreactor (artificial body) housing living human cells and tissue (the artist’s own) at 37 degrees celsius
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KOSUKE IKEDA (JAPAN) AUSTRALIA
RMIT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM, MELBOURNE
For the first time Asialink is partnering with RMIT’s International Artist in Residence program to continue our annual reciprocal residency with Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan. Kosuke Ikeda will begin his three-month residency at RMIT, Melbourne from 14 May. Ikeda is interested in the relationship between energy and the natural environment, and his thinking has been significantly influenced by the recent Fukashima disaster and the aftermath of 3.11. Ikeda will collaborate with artists and engineers to realise a ‘Melbourne Art-Power Plant’ that explores alternate micro power generation. His project can be seen in RMIT’s Project Space / Spare Room Gallery from 20 July – 16 August.
www.kosukeikeda.net
SUPPORTED BY RMIT AND THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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Tokyo Art - Power Plant 2011
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Korea
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CYRUS (WAI-KUEN) TANG (VIC) KOREA
GOYANG ART STUDIO, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AFFILIATE, GOYANG
Cyrus (Wai-kuen) Tang was born in Hong Kong and has lived and worked in Australia since 2003. Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, she has participated in exhibitions and residencies in Australia, Canada, Paris, Korea and Shanghai. She is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in the fields of video and installation. Cyrus is interested in the contradiction between the ephemeral and the permanent. During her residency in Korea, she will further her conceptual body of work that focuses on objects, materials, memory and disappearance.
SUPPORTED BY ARTS VICTORIA AND THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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Sleeping 2008
30 minute performance sleeping in the snow, Canada
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HAIMINSUN LEE (KOREA) AUSTRALIA
ARTSPACE, SYDNEY
Seoul artist Leehaiminsun comes to us with a MA Fine Art (Painting) from Yongin University. She has held several solo exhibitions including at Dr. Park Gallery and Alternative Space HUE, Seoul. Her works form part of important corporate and public collections including HANA Bank, the Korean folk museum and Ssamzie. Lee’s first trip to Australia will provide her first opportunity to create a body of work outside her home country. Leehaiminsun will divide her residency time by observing nature in different settings around Sydney. From the botanical gardens to private backyards, the artist will use her studies to develop a series of works on paper and installations that will culminate in an Open Studio at Artspace.
SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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Planta erectus 2010
Watercolour on paper
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Taiwan
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ANDREA TU (VIC) TAIWAN
TREASURE HILL ARTISTS VILLAGE, TAIPEI
Different forms of representation, and their juxtaposition, is the primary focus of Andrea Tu’s practice. She currently lectures in Drawing at the Victorian College of Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne. During her residency at Treasure Hill Artists Village, Andrea will utilise Taiwan’s cultural archives to examine how various symbolic languages influence and play off one another. The imagery sourced from art history and the local environment will be used to generate a series of works that extends or activates the originals in new and dynamic ways.
SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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From Citrine to Ash (detail) 2007
oil on linen
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CHEN CHUN-MING (TAIWAN) FREMANTLE
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, WA
Taiwanese artist Chun-ming Chen began his artistic career as a painter. For two decades Chun-ming lived and worked in New York, and this new setting steered his direction to multimedia and conceptual art. He exhibits regularly in Taiwan’s alternative art spaces and devotes the remainder of his time to curating digital and interdisciplinary arts festivals such as New Field Arts Festival, Taipei. He currently teaches at the National Taipei University of Education and has established Jelly Fish Block, an art organisation that develops collaborative shows and festivals. At the Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC), Chun-ming will explore the relationship of ‘in-between’ cultures through his multimedia installation Where are you?
SUPPORTED BY THE AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS
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Where are you? 2012
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View past reciprocal residencies