2006 ASIALINK ARTS MANAGEMENT RESIDENCIES
We congratulate the 2006 residents whose proposals are outlined below:
ACT
v    Gallery director and curator Lisa Byrne travels to Japan where she will work alongside the Art Front Gallery Artistic Director toward the successful realisation of the 3rd Echigo-Tsunmari Trienniale and actively seek residency exchange and curatorial project opportunities for Australian and Japanese artists in the future.
    & nbsp;  New South Wales
v    Joining Shanghai VI Hoare Inc, an independent publishing house associated with China Normal University Press will be literary arts manager Benython Oldfield. He aims to identify emerging and established Chinese writers who are not published in the west with the aim of bringing them to Australian publishers and writers festivals..
v    Curator David Teh will be based at the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, a new division of the Thai Ministry of Culture, where he will be developing a major exhibition of Thai contemporary art, to tour to Australia in 2007.
v    Cuong Phu Le, Community Cultural Development Officer at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, will divide his time between Vietnam and Cambodia, researching a possible contemporary arts project in Ho Chi Minh City and creating networks in Phnom Penh with a view to bringing Cambodian instructors to Australia for workshops.
Northern Territory
v    Following a previous association with the Ubud Writers' and Readers Festival, Finley Smith returns to Indonesia to strengthen networks between Indonesian and Australian writers, publishers and arts organisations, help establish new administrative systems and mentor Balinese Festival staff in festival management.
    & nbsp;  Queensland
v    Arts manager Susan Kukucka will work with the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation in order to develop cultural programs and establish exchanges between Chinese and Australian arts festivals, cultural organisations and tertiary institutions.
    & nbsp;  South Australia
v    Having lived in Singapore before, Alan Cruickshank, Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and Editor of Contemporary Visual Art+ Broadsheet magazine, has a significant history there, and he returns to undertake a residency with Kanaga Sabapathy at Asia Contemporary.
    & nbsp;  Victoria 
v    Lecturer and sound artist Philip Samartzis will use his time in Japan to work with academics, curators, artists and researchers at Musashino Art University to develop curatorial programs that promote Australian and Japanese sound culture.
The Asialink Residency Program is are made possible with the assistance of:
Australia Council, Arts Queensland, Arts Tasmania, Arts SA, Arts Victoria, Arts NSW, Arts WA, Arts NT, Australia-China Council, Australia-Indonesia Institute, Australia-India Council, Australia-Korea Foundation, Australia-Thailand Institute, Australian High Commission Kuala Lumpur.

Enquiries:  Swee Lim, Program Manager, Asialink Arts
s.lim@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
Tel: 03 8344 3581