open letter symposium:

This website documents the parallel symposium that ran with the Open Letter touring exhibition (Sydney, Thailand, Manila, Malaysia) called "Artistic Practice in the 3rd Space" which was held at the Asia-Australia Art Centre in Sydney + the exhibition curator's talk & public forum held at the Metropolitan Museum Manila


Exhibition Information:

Curator Binghui Huangfu of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney, has selected work by artists of (mostly) South East Asian descent - Dadang Christanto, Emil Goh, Selina Ou, Vienna Parreño & Krzysztof Osinski, George Poonkhin Khut & John Tonkin, Melissa Ramos, Koky Saly, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, My Le Thi - for an exhibition exploring the realities of leaving one home to live somewhere very different and how this affects their individual practice and the cultures of both their original place and their new place of abode. The generation of artists coming to the fore in the early years of the 21st century in Australia includes a number of people of South East Asian background, a notable change from a decade before. This creates both a new dynamic among them and changes the shape of contemporary Australian culture. The exhibition is an 'open letter' back to South East Asia and Australia.The exhibition is touring from 2005 to 2006, from Sydney to Bangkok, Manila and Kuala Lumpur - Asialink



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Gallery 4a Asia-Australia Art Centre.
Asialink Melbourne
Catalog Photographer: Krzysztof Osinski
Images from Thailand: Owen Leong
Images from Malaysia: Gina Fairley/Tony Twigg
Images from Manila: Vienna Parreno