Ignorance is not bliss; art and its place in Australia-Asia relations

Read the full text

PDFIgnorance is not bliss; art and its place in Australia-Asia relations
Image: futureatlas.com / flickr

13 January 2010This essay reveals how the Arts are a microcosm of Australia-Asia engagement. Unless we are proactive in Asia, the burgeoning Arts community in Asia will continue to grow in complexity and internal goodwill, and Australia will remain forever on the edge. Australia must make some harder decisions, including re-looking at the Australia Council’s quota of half its international funding being for Asian projects. That quota, set in the early 1990s, was never met. It reached 35 per cent around 1993, and has since quietly fallen away.

Alison Carroll established and is Director of the Arts Program at Asialink, the leading program for arts exchange between Asia and Australia for visual arts, performing arts, literature and arts management practice. Her new book, The Revolutionary Century; Art in Asia 1900-2000 is out early 2010, published by Macmillan.

 

Image: 'Bangladeshi folk art', futureatlas.com / flickr
See also futureatlas.com blog

Publication typeArticle
Publisher TypeAcademic research centre, APO Member
CoverageAustralia, Asia and the Pacific
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/20041
Views1659

Related Topics

Creative & Digital

International

Economics

Related content

Most viewed: This week

1
Web and Information Coordinator - Australian Policy Online (Position number: 29499)
2
Can nations measure well-being?
3
Six provocations for big data
4
What do pop-up shops and homelessness have in common?
5
Evidence-free policy making? The case of income management

Noticeboard

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (the ACNC) starting in July 2012
07 March 2012

In May 2011 the Federal Government announced that the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) would commence operations from 1 July 2012 and that it would initially be responsible for determining the legal status of groups seeking charitable, public benevolent institution, and other not-for-profit (NFP) benefits on behalf of all Commonwealth agencies. 

Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access released
13 January 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of Quarterly Access examines the recent East Asia Summit, bilateral alliances in the Asia Pacific, the future of Timor-Leste, women's participation in peace processes and more.

Read QA online: http://www.aiia.asn.au/qa/qa-vol4-issue1

Centre for Sustainability Leadership - 2012 Fellowship Program
02 December 2011

Applications are now open for a unique training opportunity for selected individuals develop the skills, networks and knowledge needed to be effective in forging a more sustainable future.

Topics

APO