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Arts and Cultural Exchange
Living Together is Easy
Outline:
The September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center dealt a terrible
blow to the delicate global balance, shrouding the dawn of the 21st century
in chaos and hatred. The present state of the world is very different from the
vision of the new century so many had cherished in the last decade of the 20th
century that ended just a couple of years ago. Our disappointed hopes for a
global economy, the difficulties of coexisting with different cultures, increasing
pollution despite attempts to conserve the environment, the widening gulf between
rich and poor, and the looming cloud of war are crushing our sense of ourselves
as world citizens capable of transcending country and race and living together
in
harmony.
In this dangerous world, people are now struggling to find their own identity
and stance. This exhibition presents a wide variety of works - videos, sculptures,
paintings, installations, and photographs - by 12 artists from Japan and Australia
who are all striving to create new forms of expression amid the various problems
of contemporary society.
The exhibition is a cooperative cultural exchange project planned by curators
from Japan and Australia. Organized under the joint auspices of the Japan Foundation
and the Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne, it will be held first
at Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito in Japan and later at the National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
| Durations and Venues: | August 26 (Thu.) to November 7 (Sun.), 2004, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Australia) | |
| Organisers: (alphabetical orders) |
The Asialink Centre of the University of Melbourne, The Japan Foundation, Mito Arts Foundation, Art Tower Mito, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne | |
| Cooperation: | Japan Airlines | |
| Curators: | Eriko OSAKA, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Center of
Art Tower Mito Jason Smith, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Participating Artists: | Japan: | Tabaimo, Tetsuya Nakamura, Taro Shinoda, Kaoru Motomiya, Tadasu Takamine, Akira Yamaguchi |
| Australia: | Fiona Hall, Rosemary Laing, Ricky Swallow, David Rosetzky, Susan Norrie, Samuel Nanjdja | |