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Ignorance is not bliss; art and its place in Australia-Asia relations
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| Ignorance is not bliss; art and its place in Australia-Asia relations |
Image: futureatlas.com / flickr13 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
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