IAC Music Events and Talks
By examining past and present catalogues, labels, and displays, this webinar discusses how these museums approach the qin and the challenges of its representation. These include negotiating the dichotomies between cultural and musical objects, ethnographic and biographic narratives, and safeguarding and revitalising purposes. It reveals how an equitable balance between the viewpoints of connoisseurship and indigenous practice of the qin can provide a potential solution in dealing with these challenges.
In this lecture, Dr Catherine Ingram draw upon her extensive research on Kam song over an eighteen-year period, and her experience joining Kam friends and teachers in many Kam song performances, to explain how Kam song is understood by Kam people and why songs of Chinese minorities such as the Kam minority continue to be significant today.
Addressing the central theme of ‘sacred creativity in the postdigital age’, this forum brings together some of the world's leading practitioners and thinkers in the field of spiritually-inspired music and related art forms. Are we transitioning away from technology to return more to nature? Where will the 'new normality' take us creatively as a result of the global pandemic?
Addressing the central theme of ‘sacred creativity in the postdigital age’, this concert is based on the seminar sessions that brought together some of the world's leading practitioners and thinkers in the field of spiritually-inspired music and related art forms.
Hosted by OzAsia Festival Artistic Director, ACIAC Advisory Board member Annette Shun Wah, three panellists including ACIAC Director Professor Jing Han, Thai-Australian playwright and screenwriter Anchuli Felicia King and actor, writer and activist Jo Kukathas working across cultures, languages (and time zones) connect to discuss miscommunication, freedom of expression and censorship.
To reflect on the current world crisis, ACIAC Research Fellow Dr Nicholas Ng has curated this unique music series. A group of 12 artists connected to Chinese music and culture in Australia and abroad have made a special contribution to this series.
With the continuation of the global pandemic and its severe repercussions, it is of utmost importance for us to attend to our mental and physical health while in extended lockdown. In this second response to the global pandemic, IAC Research Fellow Dr Nicholas Ng has curated a collection of original music written by eight highly esteemed composers to help relax the mind and create feelings of peace and calm.
