
Art Across the Archipelago aims to produce a new understanding of cultural alliances across the Asia Pacific and South East Asia regions with programs specifically focused to facilitate collaborations between institutions and individuals. This program aims to produce a new understanding of cultural alliances across the Asia Pacific region through an interdisciplinary network of applied researchers.
Emerging in dialogue with the artistic movements of post-conceptualism and the ‘educational turn’ in art in the 2000s, artistic research has both contributed to and challenged the contemporary role of university research, prompting a rethinking of engagement through artists’ fundamental engagement with public feeling. However, the bulk of this discourse has thus far been centred in Northwestern Europe and the English speaking colonies. In the Biennale era, artistic attention has shifted focus outside of the former west to non-European nations, and also to indigenous artists working against the colonial paradigm—communities of practice that have markedly different cultural dynamics from those of Euro-America.
Program Coordinators: Dr Danny Butt, Dr Wulan Dirgantoro, Enterprise Professor Natalie King, Associate Professor Claire Roberts, Dr David Sequeira
Current Projects
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APARN2023 “The Matter of Art”
Meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Friday 7th July 2023. Hosted by Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
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Paradise Camp at the Powerhouse Museum
Paradise Camp was created by Yuki Kihara and curated by Natalie King. It comprises a suite of twelve tableau photographs in saturated colour, situated against a vast wallpaper of a landscape decimated by the 2009 tsunami. Eleven of the works were shot on location in Sāmoa, from rural villages to churches, plantations and heritage sites, with a local cast and crew of over eighty people.
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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
First presented at the 59th Venice Biennale, the Talanoa Forum extends the themes of the Paradise Camp exhibition by bringing together 24 artists, curators, scholars, activists and policymakers from Australia, Aoteroa New Zealand, Sāmoa, Tahiti, and Italy. Over three days, this interdisciplinary program will highlight urgent issues around small island ecologies, climate justice, decolonial museology, diasporic and Pacific alliances. Powerhouse Ultimo. 10–12 October 2023 10am–5pm.
Recent Projects
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Talanoa Forum 2022 Venice Biennale
Talanoa Forum: Swimming Against the Tide is an online and in person gathering organized by artist Yuki Kihara on the occasion of her exhibition Paradise Camp, curated by Natalie King at the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion for the 59th International Art Exhibition—the Venice Biennale.
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Paradise Camp Exhibition
Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara and curated by Natalie King, comprises a suite of twelve tableau photographs in saturated colour, situated against a vast wallpaper of a landscape decimated by the 2009 tsunami.
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APARN2022
For our 2022 online gathering, the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network focussed on artistic researchers across the region whose inquiry focuses on aspects of the physical environment, local ecologies, and the planet.
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APARN2021
The Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network aims to connect researchers working in the broad domains of practice research or artistic research to others in the region, providing existing networks opportunities for visibility and regional connection.
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Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN) 2020
APARN 2020 presents a range of panels and presentations as part of a regional exchange of artistic enquiry that can activate regional solidarity in our fields.
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Archipelagic Encounters
An online symposium produced in collaboration between McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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14 OCTOBER: How Art Travels?
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6 DECEMBER 2018: Female Artists & Art Practices in Indonesia
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28 NOVEMBER 2018: Gender and Indonesian Contemporary Art
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20 SEPTEMBER: Charles Koroneho Research Seminar
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WATCH: Gender & Indonesian Contemporary Art
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MPavilion x APT9: Creative Collaboration & Collectivity in the Asia Pacific Region
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20 March, 2018: Masterclass with David Elliott
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Tiffany Chung and N.S. Harsha in conversation with Professor Natalie King
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