Korea Strategy Meetings and Tours 2009
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With core support of the Australia-Korea Foundation, Asialink initiated and organised three meetings and tours of Korea in late 2009 of Australian Visual Arts, Literature and Performing Arts people, specifically to discuss future collaborative strategies. As part of this, the visiting Australians also met many Korean colleagues and visited organisations, further gaining knowledge of the country’s arts and increasing networks and relationships. The visits ranged from 3 to 7 days, with detailed itineraries.
These art form specific meetings and tours followed the Wave Korea Wave Forum in mid 2009 in Melbourne, where speakers from Korea had also initiated cross-media discussions of general issues for future debate.
Visual Arts:
• Jen Mizuik, Director, Experimenta
• Amy Barrett-Lennard, Director, PICA
• Alessio Cavallaro, Senior Curator, ACMI
• Claire Watson, Asialink
• Sarah Bond, Visual Arts Manager, Asialink (leader)
Literature:
• Steve Grimwade, Director, Melbourne Writers Festival
• Zoe Rodriguez, Cultural Fund Manager, CAL
• David Prater, writer, Managing Editor, Cordite Poetry Review
• Nicolas Low, Literature Manager, Asialink (leader)
Performing Arts
• Lindy Hume, Artistic Director, Sydney Festival
• Jo Duffy, Artistic Director, Darwin Festival
• Paul McGill, Maakham Consulting
• Marguerite Pepper, Director, Marguerite Pepper Productions
• Leah Barclay, artist
• Meredith Martin, Researcher, University of Melbourne
• Rosemary Hinde, Performing Arts Manager, Asialink (leader)
A number of the participants of the Performing Arts discussion were in Seoul for the Performing Arts Market Seoul (PAMS).
Outcomes included:
• Invitations for Australian publishing experts and authors to talk in Seoul and Koreans in Australia
• Options for translations of Australian and Korean literature and publications
• a symposium and laboratory in Melbourne in 2010 to focus on the technical and curatorial issues of Large Screen projects in Australia and Korea
• continuation of the Creative Producers Network Forum in Asia
• New exhibition exchange ideas
• New curatorial and artist exchange idea
• Better understanding and knowledge of each sector
