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Visiting Artists
If you would like to talk about how to create a residency program in your area or school phone: 02 6685 7789 or email: indoarts@dingoblue.net.au
Admiral Dt Rangkayo
I would like to get in touch with you with regard to a visiting artist from West Sumatra who will be in Perth from July to September 2001.
Minangkabau musician Admiral Dt Rangkayo (and possibly his performance partner, composer M Halim) will have some time available for workshop, concert or master classes in Perth if there is sufficient interest. Please email me direct asap if you think there might be an opportunity coming up.
regards
Indija: indija@indo.net.id
Member - AIAA
Musician-in-Residence - Deni Oseng
Deni Oseng is a gamelan musician and member of the internationally acclaimed Indonesian performing group Krakatau. At the completion of their national tour in 2000, Oseng stayed on in the NSW North Coast for one month as Musician-in-Residence. While here he participated in cultural exchange activities and shared his wealth of knowledge of traditional and contemporary gamelan through gamelan workshops, demonstrations and performances.
Due to the enormous success of his visit last year, Oseng plans to return to the North Coast for 3 month stay during 2001 focussing on composing and collaborating on new music with local musicians and gamelan groups. If you would like to invite Oseng to participate in your community cultural activities please phone 02 66 857 789.
Deni Tudirahayu -Member - AIAA
Wahyu Roche - Warogus Musician-in-Residence
Wahyu Roche first came to Byron Bay as part of the Warogus tour in 1999. Warogus is theIndonesia-Australia rampak kendang group based in Bandung. Wahyu has been invited to visit Byron Bay again at the invitation of AIAA NSW North Coast Branch and Byron Shire Gamelan in order to teach kendang, suling and gamelan during 2001. Due to Wahyu's prior commitments in Germany and Bandung, the project has been rescheduled for 2002 and will take place from Feb-April. This project has been funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute, Dept of Foreign Affairs.
Warogus - Member - AIAA
Further info on this project email: indoarts@dingoblue.net.au
Asialink Residencies 2001
Sigit Pius and Bintang Hanggon
Performing Arts
Sigit Pius and Bintang Hanggon, from Yogyakarta, are artists working in the area of installation, performance, multimedia and animation. They have collaborated in multi-media and video projects and, with other artists, published an alternative comic Core comic and worked with geber; ModusOperandi and Musik elektronic Mencari Harmoni. Sigit Pius has also worked with theater Utan Kayu and choreographer Restu Iman sari and participated in the Makassar Art Forum. Recently they worked together with Geber: Modis Operandi, creating a performance/installation called 'Hole' at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta. The two will collaborate again as artists in residence with the Melbourne Fringe Festival, August-September 2001.
Mitzi Zaphir
Management
Mitzi Zaphir has worked extensively in theatre company management, most recently as general manager of the Australian Theatre For Young People. Zaphir is currently a project co-ordinater in cultural affairs with the City of Sydney organising large scale cultural events. She will be based at the Kelola Foundation in Solo, Central Java where she will assist with a number of projects including workshops and briefings for Indonesian arts managers seconded to Australia, and conduct research into management options for traditional arts in Indonesia.
Julie Janson
Literature
Julie Janson writes plays that have an indiginous and an inter-cultural focus.Recent works include Black Mary, about an Aboriginal women outlaw, for the Olympic 'Festival of the Dreaming' and Lotus War about a Vietnamese warrior women written for the Asian Arts Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival.In Indonesia she will work on her new play, Arafura, set on an Island in the Arafura Sea.It traces stories that have developed along the trade winds from Makassar in Sulawesi to Northern Australia.Janson will research tales of the Makassan traders and work with the National Aboriginaland Islander Dance Academy in collaboration with Indiginous Australian Artists from the Torres straight Islands.
Dorothea Rosa Herliany
Dorothea Rosa Herliany is a young and exciting member of the new generation of Indonesian writers. Born in Magelang, central Java, in 1962, she is a graduate of Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta. Dorothea writes both short stories and poetry. Her work boldly and uncompromisingly explores the tensions arising from conventional patriarchal expectations towards women in a rapidly changing Indonesia.
Cindy South Czabania
Visual Arts/Crafts
Cindy South Czabania lives and works in Adelaide.She began woodcarving seven years ago in order to expand her sculpture into the area of puppetry.She also works in textile design, figurative sculpture and jewellery.She was awarded The Art and Craft Award from The Commonwealth Foundation, UK in 1997.Last year Czabania exibited puppets in both Bali and Java, and in June 2001 she will return to Indonesia to conduct puppetry workshops and performances with local artists and children at the Benda Gallery, Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the Cemeti foundation.
Applications for Asialink Residencies 2002 in Visual Arts/Crafts, Performing Arts, Literature and Arts Management will be closing Friday 7 September 2002.
Contact: www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au