We chat to Yona Lee about her work An Arrangement for Five Room, which she developed during her 2016 Asia New Zealand Foundation residency at SeMa Nanji in Seoul, South Korea.
Arts/News
Q&A: The Mourning After
We talk with playwright and director Ahi Karunaharan about his play The Mourning After, which the Foundation supported with an Arts Project grant.
Arts/News
Bringing Asia to New Zealand – arts grant recipients announced
Asia will be brought to New Zealand through art thanks to the latest round of arts grants from the Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono.
Arts/News
Unified Moon at Kang Nam Station
We chat with artist Sam Thomas about his exhibition Unified Moon, which is currently on at Kang Nam Station Korean restaurant on Queen Street.
Arts/News
Cloud Pink wows the Hutt
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.
News/News
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.
Education/News
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.
Arts/News
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.
Arts/News
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.
Arts/News
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-
