OzAsia Festival Special E-dition. With intensive coverage of 18 of its shows, we celebrate the success of this year’s festival, OzAsia’s 10th. The annual event was initiated by Adelaide Festival Centre CEO Douglas Gautier, who had previously worked in Hong Kong, and taken to a new level in 2015 and 2016 by OzAsia’s Artistic Director Joseph Mitchell whose eye for innovation and diversity in Asian art and performance of all kinds has given us works with which to see the world and ourselves anew. According to our Adelaide correspondents Ben Brooker and Chris Reid this was the best OzAsia yet. For us it was our first, a storm-defying, mind-bending and sense-expanding experience. One of our great pleasures is to live-in at a festival, responding to it in detail, as RealTime has done this year with Next Wave and the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, and many others over 22 years of arts publishing. We’re eager for even greater cross-cultural insights from
and immersion in 2017’s OzAsia Festival.
OZASIA 2016: EVER BLOSSOMING ART OUT OF ASIA Keith Gallasch responds to the works that most impressed him: China’s Two Dogs, a virtuosic, riotous play-cum-improvisation and two contemplative digital works from Japan’s teamLab (showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia until 5 January 2017).
OZASIA 2016: FESTIVAL RISES ABOVE THE STORM
After two days of bad weather, OzAsia displayed its mettle with music and film in King of Ghosts, Cambodia’s brilliant young Phare Circus, Adelaide’s Tutti and Asian collaborators in Beastly and Toshiki Okada’s God Bless Baseball, an engrossing parable about sport, family and power.
OZASIA 2016: A LIVING DOCUMENT OF DIVERSITY The Record, an unlikely piece of programming, featuring 45 Adelaide citizens in a gentle dance, was one of the festival’s highlights, writes Ben Brooker, while Hong Kong’s City Contemporary Dance Company unevenly mixed convention and invention.
GIVEAWAY: UNWORLDLY ENCOUNTERS
One of OzAsia’s most powerful exhibitions was Unworldy Encounters at AEAF, featuring works by four Australian and Chinese artists who travelled together through China, Tibet and across Australia. Their journey and their art are documented in this magnificent large format book.
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