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THE COLOUR CYCLE
DIVERSITY ARTS AUSTRALIA
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Looking for a cool podcast to hook into? Check out Episode 2: I Am Not A Virus: anti-Asian Covid racism’ from Diversity Arts Australia’s latest season of The Colour Cycle podcast - out now! Hosted by DARTS director Lena Nahlous, the series aims to disrupt cultural whitewashing and provide concrete strategies for change in the creative sector.
In response to the surge of Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19, DARTS launched I Am Not A Virus, an artist-led project that provided powerful counter-narratives to xenophobia and racism. Episode 2 features interviews with Asian artists, partners and curators from the Acute Actions: I Am Not A Virus exhibition co-presented by 4A Centre for Contemporary Art and DARTS, including artists Jayanto Tan, Andrea Srisurapon, and co-curator Reina Takeuchi.
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WHERE IS 4A?
ONLINE & OFFSITE
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The 4A team are currently WFH during the NSW Health lockdown. Need to get in touch? Email us here. 4A's Haymarket gallery is temporarily closed to the public while the City of Sydney undertakes remedial works to improve the 127-year old heritage-listed Corporation Building that has been 4A's home for over 20 years! This major make-over ensures that 4A’s role as a leader in Asian contemporary art in Australia continues for many years to come.
During this time, 4A continues to commission, present, document and research contemporary Asian art and the active role it plays towards understanding and developing the multifaceted relationship between Australia and the wider Asian region.
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Acknowledgements: 4A Digital in 2021 is commissioned by 4A and curated by the Curatorial Assistant for 2021, Marco Rinaldi, as part of 4A’s Digital Curatorship. The 4A Curatorial Assistant Program is supported by the Sally Breen Family Foundation. Video excerpts courtesy the designer / I am a heart beating in the world: Diaspora Pavilion 2, Sydney is presented in partnership with International Curators Forum and with support from Outset. This project has been supported by The British Council / Acute Actions is presented by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Diversity Arts Australia and is part of the I Am Not A Virus project. Supported by Australia Council, Create NSW, Creative Victoria, City of Sydney, City of Parramatta and Inner West Council / Drawn by stones is presented in 2021 with the important support of the Counihan Gallery In Brunswick, part of Moreland City Council. Support for the development of Drawn by stones has been provided through project partners at the Taiwanese Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, and The Gordon Darling Foundation.
Image captions: Rel Pham, Electric Dirge, 2021 / Leyla Stevens in front of Our Sea is Always Hungry, 2018 / Daniela Yohannes; supplied. /Wen-Hsi Harman, Theory of land, from Land Series, 2015 / Jesse Hogan, Survival Aesthetics, 2021, GIF designed by Jesse Hogan / Diversity Arts Australia, I Am Not A Virus, from The Colour Cycle series, 2021, courtesy DARTS / The 4A team: Amrit Gill, Nuala Furtado, Mariam Arcilla, Con Gerakaris, Bridie Moran, Reina Takeuchi, Lucia Nguyen, Nicole Beck. Images taken using Cybermancy 2, an interactive webcam work by Jane Fan, commissioned for 4A Digital. Visit our site to make your own! All images courtesy the individuals mentioned above.
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