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A night exploring travels in Asia through unusual combinations of text, image and sound. Featuring solo violin, written memoir, photo projections, spoken word and critical discussion, we look at new and unusual meditations on place.
Sydney-based writer and performer Noelle Janaczewska presents Unrequited, a monologue and projection piece on her strange and frustrating love-affair with both North and South Korea.
Also down from Sydney, we have new media artist and writer Linda Neil. She combines visceral, immediate memoir writing with solo violin to conjure the funeral pyres on India’s mighty Ganges river.
Victorian artist and writer Petrus Spronk is perhaps best known for Architectural Fragment, the sculpture of a building emerging from the ground outside the State Library of Victoria. Here, he presents visual meditations on time and place through images of drystone sculptures and walls from Asia and Europe, photographed during an eight-year period of walking around the world.
Renowned London-born, Melbourne-based, and island-obsessed poet Andrew Sant will read poems and discuss ideas of travel and speed, driven by observations and immersion during his Asialink residency to China in 2008.
As always, this event is free and includes winter-warming refreshments for all.
Patron: Neilma Sidney
Date: Thursday 29th July 2010
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: Yasuko Myer Room, Level 1, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
RSVP and enquiries: Adam Hills, a.hills@asialink.unimelb.edu.au, (61)3 9035 4026
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