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This project is a two-part artist exchange program, involving key artists from Australian and Indonesian artist run spaces in, and culminating in a showcase of works and community art projects in each country. In Australia, we will be creating a 3 week Arts and Cultural festival, bringing key Indonesian artists involved in artists run spaces from Java to a dense collection of artist-run spaces in the Chippendale Arts Precinct. These events will generate fresh and exciting creative dialogues between Indonesian and Australian artists and will open up broader and more genuine opportunities for the public to engage in positive terms with Australian and Indonesian identities. The concept draws from the Indonesian word for ‘alleyway,' gang, which evokes images of crevices, margins, and a rich density of peripheral culture. We also draw from the English meaning of the word to describe an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between a large number of artworkers who situate their work on the margins of commerical art practice in Australia and Indonesia. The project will begin with two artist exchange components. In June 2005, Australian artists James Hancock and Alice McAuliffe, who have been involved in Sydney's artist run spaces will travel to Indonesia and use their curatorial skills and contacts to achieve specific goals. Firstly, they will bring with them a range of artwork from participating artist collectives in Sydney. This work will represent a diverse cross-section of artists working in portable mediums, such as print, painting, drawing, and video. Assisted by the participants in Indonesia, they will organise shows and screenings that will make up a festival of Australian art in both Jakarta and Yogyakarta. This is scheduled for August 2005. While in Indonesia, the Australian artists will curate and work to develop the second leg of the exchange program which will bring Indonesian artists to Sydney to participate in 'Gang': a three week arts and culture festival in Chippendale, scheduled for January 2006. In this festival we will focus on screen based works, self publishing and writing, and the visual arts, involving at least four venues situated in close proximity to one another. Indonesian artists from the collectives Ruang rupa and Taring Padi will be hosted by these artist run spaces and venues and invited to collaborate with Australian artists and their communities in a showcase of exhibitions, screenings and performances.
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Indonesia, Chippendale, arts, performance, community, politics, artist-run spaces, cross-cultural, collaboration
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James Hancock, Alice McAuliffe, Alexandra Crosby, Aris Prabawa, Rebecca Conroy, Rudy Ardianto, RAW, Ruang Rupa, Wedding Circle, Screening Room
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