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IAC Art Talks Series 3 Lecture 2: Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma by Dr Mai Nguyễn-Long (Catch up Online)

In this talk, Dr Mai Nguyễn-Long talks about her practice-based research project "Vomit Girl Beyond Diasporic Trauma" which examines how acculturated intergenerational trauma gives rise to binary identities and fixed narratives that prevent meaningful reconnection with ‘homelands.’ This research project proposes that contemporary art can draw from folkloric strategies to open up spaces for suppressed, hidden, and new stories to emerge beyond diasporic trauma.

Retired theatre director and actor, Carrillo Gantner AC, has had a long career in the promotion of Australian theatre and closer cultural engagement with our neighbours in the Asian region. Carrillo believes that Australia’s major arts festival directors and arts centre program managers should be as, or more conversant with the rich and diverse performing arts across Asia as they are with those of Western Europe and North America. To this end, over the last 15 years, three times he has led delegations of senior Australian performing arts managers to China as guests of the Ministry of Culture & Tourism, most recently in October last year (2024). This talk focuses on this last delegation.

As an early-career artist working between drawing, listening and sound, Dr Chen investigates trajectories of cultural exchange and transformation that have occurred through intergenerational migration, trade and colonisation in Southeast Asia, specifically in Malaysia where she was born. She examines these cross-cultural impacts and extends upon existing practices to develop her own transcultural approach within a contemporary Australian context. This talk explores her engagement with East Asian ink practices and Chinese landscape painting through materials, visual elements and composition, and how integrating these with contemporary drawing, listening and sound practices, Dr Chen attempts to locate her practice in relation to her cultural homelands and the migratory trajectories of her ancestors.

Chinese classical painting, especially the xieyi (writing mind) genre, has for over a millennium provided physical representation of Chinese philosophies and healing. In this richly illustrated webinar, Dr Wu delves into the introspections embedded within this ancient art form, drawing parallels with western psychotherapy. The webinar showcases the in-depth narratives of societal and personal traumas many xieyi masters experienced, and their transformative healing achieved through painting, incorporating Nature’s tangible metaphors and energy-tone.

Papercutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China and dates back over 2000 years. In this art talk, Chinese Australian multimedia artist Dr Tianli Zu shares insights from her interviews, behind-the-scenes of her art making, and the meanings embedded in the works. Dr Zu touches upon her explorations of heritage and culture, East and West, life and death, presence and absence, reality and imagination.

Simon Chan AM is the Director and Founder of Art Atrium, an art gallery exhibiting contemporary Australian, Asian and Aboriginal art. Simon is also a practising architect and Director of SCA Architects. In this talk Simon Chan shares his experience and passion for Art and Architecture and how his life has evolved over the years.

Traditionally a curator is seen as a keeper of a museum or a collection and an organiser of an exhibition. With a new definition being adopted by the International Council of Museums in 2022, in which a museum is expected to be in service of a broader society and its audience with diverse cultural and social political backgrounds, a curator in a public museum is required to re-evaluate his/her/their role to meet this new challenge and opportunity. A curator is one active member of a museum team whose goal is to offer varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing through exhibition and public engagement programs which reflect the broader communities’ interests.

Dr Geoff Raby AO began collecting works of art by emerging Chinese artists in early 1986 and from those initial roots his collection grew into a four-decade project, documenting the growth and maturity of the contemporary China art movement with more than 75 artists represented. In this talk, Dr Raby discusses how and why he assembled the collection and shares stories of particular works of art and the artists that created them.

There is excellent Chinese art within public collections in Australia, ranging in date from the Shang dynasty (c 1700 - 1027 BCE) through to the present, and representing a wide range of media. Collections are extremely varied, reflecting a combination of formal acquisition policies and the specialist interests and ambitions of diverse curators, collectors, and donors. This talk is an overview of the strengths of different public art collections and the people responsible from the first examples of Chinese art acquired by a public collection.

In this talk, highly celebrated artist Dapeng Liu will be taking a close look at the flourishing art period in China between the 1910s and late 1930s known as the Western-Style painting Movement (yanghua yundong 洋画运动). At that time a considerable number of students were passionately pursuing their art education in Europe, the United States and Japan, while Western-style art schools, associations and societies were developing at home.

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