Asialink Arts has announced a suite of creative exchange projects for 2018 through its Global Project Space (GPS) initiative. Chosen from an open call, 27 Australian artists and arts professionals have been awarded opportunities in Asia while five Asian-based artists will head to Australia. Each recipient has been linked with one of over 40 global collaborators – spanning publishing houses, galleries, theatres, universities and arts residency spaces – to develop new works, expand their professional networks and strengthen Australia’s artistic reputation.
Many of the projects explore pressing socio-environmental issues across film, performance, sound, visual art and writing. Director Sarah Bond comments, ‘the work being undertaken by the selected 2018 artists offers a subtle experiential approach to global engagement and alternate ways to look at everyday things anew.’
Antony Hamilton and Melanie Lane in ‘New Creation’, Lucy Guerin Inc residency 2016. Photograph: Dian McLeod. Courtesy the artists and Asialink Arts, Melbourne
