Alex Kershaw is a photographic and video artist examining the symbolism and ritual associated with people and their territories. His work addresses ideas of identity, memory and relation. In residency at Chulalongkorn University Kershaw will work closely with members of the Wat Mahathat monastery in Bangkok. He also plans to travel to Dan Sai in Northern Thailand for the Phi Ta Khon Festival, in order to  research the festival's rites and incantations and their relationship with theatrical interventions. Kershaw teaches at the Australian Catholic University and the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW.

Supported by the Australia-Thailand Institute and the Australia Council

Since graduating in 2001, Kate Rohde has held several solo exhibitions and been involved in numerous group shows. Her work is held in public and private collections across Australia. Rohde's sculptures and installations are comprised of a wide range of craft and hardware material, including resins, fake fur, expanding foam and rice paper, loosely exploring themes surrounding humanity's relationship to nature. While undertaking her residency at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan, she plans to gather research material to inspire and influence a new body of work, particularly drawing on the use of kitsch in Japanese pop-culture.

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council

Soda_Jerk (Dan and Dominique Angeloro) are Sydney-based remix artists who work across the media of video, photo-collage and installation. Working exclusively with found material, their practice involves reconfiguring fragments of screen culture and vintage print media into new constellations. In addition to their collaborative work as artists, writers and curators, Dan Angeloro is completing a PhD on remix practices and Dominique Angeloro is a freelance arts writer. During their residency at 1 Shanthi Rd, Bangalore, Soda_Jerk will research Bollywood cinema culture and modes of spectatorship. They will also collect DVD and print material for a new video remix work and a suite of photo-collages.
http://www.sodajerk.com.au

Supported by the Australia-India Council and the Australia Council

Jayne Dyer's practice is multi-disciplined with an installation focus. Extensive national and international exhibitions and awards include regular participation in curated exhibitions and projects in Asia; residencies in Hong Kong (Lingnan University), Beijing (Asialink), Paris (Art Gallery of NSW) and Italy (Monash University) and commissions for the 2006/7 Sydney Writers Festival. In 2005 she received an Australian Public Service Medal for contributions to the arts and education. At Taipei Artist Village Dyer will develop new work for the projects Treasured Possessions and I Wish - photographic and text essays addressing perception and identity through intersecting personal narratives from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.

Supported by Arts NSW and the Australia Council

Ash Keating is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who integrates environmental issues within his art strategies. These vary from process-based projects, public art, performance, video, painting, photography and installations. Recent projects include Parched (2007) in Melbourne and Pascua Lama (2006) in  Santiago, Chile. "The focus of my residency at Ssamzie Space in Seoul will involve being attentive to relevant environmental and ecological issues including exploring the aftermath and effects of the Heibei Spirit spilling 10,000 tons of oil off South Korea's west coast in late 2007. I aim for the artwork to be unique and to raise awareness politically and environmentally."

Supported by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council

Zanny Begg recently conducted an artistic study on gentrification in Hong Kong as part of an Australia-China Council Residency. She is currently completing her PhD in Art Theory and writes for a wide range of publications. Keg de Souza, a bookbinder and active member of the zine community, studied architecture and fine arts, and has pursued an on-going interest in the politics of space. Begg and de Souza work as a curatorial team and have a long-term collaborative work - the 2016: Archive Project. At the Indonesian Visual Art Archive in Yogyakarta they will create an archive of photographs, drawings and interviews exploring the gentrification of street vendors.
http://www.allthumbspress.net (Keg de Souza)
http://www.zannybegg.com

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and the Australia Council

David Thomas is an inter-disciplinary artist, with critical interests in photography, installation, sound, painting, video, performance and collaborative works. Hosted by the Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Yogyakarta, his residency will provide an opportunity to explore how the 'self' operates in a highly communal culture. Thomas was the co-founder and manager of CBD Gallery (Sydney) and has also curated exhibitions for the Art Gallery of NSW, the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

Supported by the Australia Indonesia Institute and The Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland

Sydney-based artist Melody Willis works primarily in painting and drawing. Her work reconfigures elements of incidental architecture, suggesting new possibilities for seemingly incomplete, overlooked or discarded objects. Willis is also involved in a number of collaborative projects, including the art collective Imperial Slacks, and currently operates the independent arts venue "Sydney" with three other artists. Her residency at Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, will offer an opportunity to exchange ideas with Chinese artists in the dynamic framework that Platform China fosters and to make new work in response to the rapid pace of urban transformation in Beijing.

Supported by the Australia Council

Taiwanese artist Hsu Su-chen is an inter-disciplinary artist whose recent work has encompassed themes of migration, gender issues in multicultural environements, biological imperialism and environmental ethics concepts in relation to biochemical technology. From September - December 2008, Su-chen will be hosted by the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. She intends to investigate plants as the subject of and evidence for migrations in island geography, with a view to an exhibition at Domain House in December.

An Asialink/Taipei Artist Village project supported by Taipei Culture Foundation and The Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.

 

Spiros Panigirakis is a Melbourne-based visual artist whose art practice involves working with groups in both curatorial and collaborative capacities. Panigirakis is interested in how curatorial frameworks and presentational devices work in the visual arts. He recently explored these issues in two forthcoming publications - Enjoy's (Wellington, NZ) Critical Publics and Fiona Macdonald's publication Gratuitous Intent. He has presented projects at a range of artist-run initiatives including Loose projects, 1st Floor Artists and Writers Space and CLUBSprojects. Anecdotes about food captivate him and Panigirakis thus intends to use this energy in a project regarding hawker cuisines at p-10 in Singapore.

Supported by the Australia Council

Tim Silver is a Sydney-based artist working across various media, primarily focused on sculptural casting and photography. His work is concerned with the perpetual state of entropy: the theory that all forms and systems are in a constant state of decay or change. This idea permeates both his objects and installations, themselves captured in this process of decomposition through free-falling photo-narratives. At Galeri Petronas in Kuala Lumpur, Silver will research and develop a new series of cast objects, utilising the processes of rubber production in Malaysia.

Supported by the Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur and the Australia Council