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ONLINE TALK
4A DIGITAL: IN REVIEW
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As 4A Digital logs off for another year, join artists Marcus Whale and Jane Fan for a panel discussion with co-curators Marco Rinaldi (Curatorial Assistant) and Con Gerakaris (4A Curatorial Program Manager), hosted by Prof. Paul Gladston. This panel will look back upon the ten newly-commissioned artworks created for 4A Digital 2021, exploring the methodologies of creating work for digital engagement, curating online spaces and expand upon themes of online communities and new approaches to media.
Extrapolating on Marcus Whale's inaugural piece, each 4A Digital project acted as a gateway into a virtual realm of artistic discovery into self-identity, investigations of social media and online experiences, often reflecting back upon our physical world.
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ACCESS THE TALK
CLAY FOUNDATIONS: CAN CERAMICS EXPLORE A NATIONAL IDENTITY?
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How do artists use clay as a medium to connect with culture, tradition, land and identity? The Clay Foundations panel presented by UNSW Art & Design and 4A explored this inquiry as part of the recent Drawn by stones group exhibition held at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick. Staged online on 1 September, the talk featured Professor Paul Gladston and Bridie Moran in conversation with exhibiting artists Dr Wen-Hsi Harman, Ruth Ju-Shih Li, and Jody Rallah.
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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. Stay in the loop by following 4A on social. Did you know 4A is on Linked-In? Click below to join our community!
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Acknowledgements: 4A Papers is supported by Susan Acret and James Roth in 2022. 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.
Image captions: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, photo: Bianca Woolhouse, courtesy the artist / Akil Ahamat, ASMR | ENDLESS BUTTERFLY KISSES, 2021 / Front: Kashif Nadim Chaudry, Hareem, 2010; back: Leyla Stevens, Our Sea is Always Hungry, 2018, photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art / Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator (AP), 2017, single-channel video installation, color, sound, 26 mins 36 secs. Courtesy of the Artist and Taipei Fine Arts Museum (featured in 4A Papers) / Wen-Hsi Harman, Theory of land, from Land Series, 2015 / 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 / Ruth Ju-Shih Li for Art Guide Australia, courtesy Art Guide and the artist.
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