We talk to Expressions Whirinaki Gallery curator Leanne Wickham about an interactive art installation from South Korea that gave gallery goers the sensation of touching clouds.
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Curators of the digital world
Auckland Live digital curator Nolwenn Lacire travelled to South Korea in June to learn about the country’s digital art scene and attend the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Gwangju.
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Māori fashion meets China
Fashion designer Kiri Nathan recently travelled to China with a group of other Māori fashion designers. Read about their trip in China, and also the establishment of Kāhui Māori Fashion Collective.
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Students wowed by lantern festival performers
It’s not often a Mongolian throat singer, a Chinese hat juggler and a trio of traditional folk musicians turn up at Timaru Girls’ High School, so when they do, the students sit up and take notice.
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Artist explores the interconnectedness of everything
Social Practice Artist Tiffany Singh was the 2017 New Generation Award recipient. Her acclaimed interactive works explore the engagement between arts and cultural and community well-being. Tiffany rec
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Foundation appoints new arts director
The Asia New Zealand Foundation is pleased to welcome Craig Cooper as the new director of its arts programme.
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Foundation announces
2017 arts grants recipients
An independent performing arts centre, a contemporary gallery in West Auckland and an award-winning theatre director are among this year’s recipients of the Asia New Zealand Foundation arts grants.
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Dunedin cemeteries inspire Shanghai artist
The musings of two two-hundred-year-old ghosts pondering life and death in a cemetery on the Otago Peninsula is the basis of a short film Chinese video artist Chen Zhou shot during his time as artist-
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Looking for shadows in Bangkok
Artist Paul McLachlan describes his time as an artist in residence at Surface Arts residency in Bangkok.
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NZ - China collaboration on cutting-edge show
Writer Rachel Davies travelled to Shanghai late last year with the help of an Asia New Zealand Foundation grant to attend the opening of Duality, the show she helped create with the team from creative
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Wellington Diwali: Indian music, food and dance to spice up the capital
Captivating artists and performers from four states of India will entertain audiences at Wellington's 15th Diwali Festival of Lights at Labour Weekend.
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Artist finds Seoul in the cracks of the city
Auckland artist and Foundation Leadership Network member Xin Cheng was artist in residence at Sema Nanji artist residency in Seoul, South Korea, from September to November last year. In Seoul she deve