This talk will be held both online and in four "hub" locations in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney (details below)

2024 marks the seventh year since the establishment of Asian Art Research Now, the annual postgraduate symposium organised by the Australasian Network for Asian Art (AN4AA).

This symposium has become a flagship event for the network, bringing together early-career Asian art researchers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to share their research-in-progress with their peers and experts in the field.

After being held online for several years, we have decided to conduct the symposium in a hybrid format this year, with in-person venues at Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne. The day-long symposium aims to highlight and share the vitality and diversity of Asian art research undertaken by current and recent postgraduate students. It aims to foster supportive critique, feedback, and conversations across institutions and across the diverse geographies and temporalities of Asian art research.

The symposium serves as a platform for connecting with other scholars and emerging academics across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It provides an opportunity to share research in progress among Asian art researchers from various backgrounds, including MA (coursework or research) students and doctoral candidates in disciplines such as art history, creative practice, arts management, museum studies, and heritage studies.

IN-PERSON VENUES (please confirm whether you plan to attend at one of these venues on checkout)

Sydney: Room A101, A Block, UNSW Art & Design, Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington, NSW 2021

Adelaide: Collab, Police Barracks Building Level 1, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000

Melbourne: Foresters Hall, Building 24.1.1, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe St, Melbourne, VIC 3000

Canberra: CIW Seminar Room, Building 188, Fellows Lane, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601

PROGRAM (all times in AEDT)

9:00-9:15 am	Opening Remarks
9:15-10:10 am	Panel 1: Curatorial Practice in and Between Australia and Southeast Asia Alison Eggleton, "Curation and International Artists' Identity" Madeline Bryne, "The Queer Prospectus: Priorities, Histories, and Speculations within Art Concerning Embodied Trans Identities in Singapore"
10:20-11:30 am	Panel 2: Perspectives from the Contemporary Asian Australian Diaspora Celline Marge Mercado, "Between the Lines: Exploring Filipino Diasporic Identity and Colonial Trauma through Sculptural Installations" Yi Won Park, "Korean Shamanism and the Art of Displacement" Ming Liew, "Examining Chinese-Australian Hybrid Identity through Auto-Ethnographic Video Essays Informed by Critical Realism"
11:30 am-12:30 pm	Break
12:30-1:30 pm	Keynote: Simon Soon, "Shore to Shore: Thinking about Art through Distraction"
1:40-2:50 pm	Panel 3: Mobile Objects: Exchanges and Circulations of Material Culture Across Time Mansoureh Rajabitanha, "Woven Pleasure: Continuity and Change in Persian Carpet Making During the Safavid Period" Xinwei Xu, "Unfold the Earliest Dated Printed Book: Making Abstract Moving Images Based on a Historical Artefact" Yuexiu Shen, "One Day, Ships from Afar Arrive: A Comparison of Fujian Trade Ceramics of Ming and Qing Dynasties"
3:00-4:10 pm	Panel 4: (Re)Mapping Visual and Sonic Histories in the Asia-Pacific Gillian Daniel, "Making Waves: Maritime Images in Penang, Singapore and the British Empire" Louise Anne Salas, "Bases of Solidarity: Exploring the Works of Brenda Fajardo, Imelda Cajipe Endaya, and Emily Karaka" Pratyay Raha, "Sonic Relationality: Place, Ecology, and Situated Experience of a Mangrove Deltaic Island"
4:15-4:30 pm	Concluding Remarks

Image: Celline Marge Mercado, Dismantled Bed II, Iteration II, 2024, Installation view, RMIT School of Art, Melbourne. Bed frame wrapped in acrylic wool, stainless steel wire rope. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy of artist.

The Australasian Network for Asian Art (an4aa) is a group of researchers including academics and curators from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand working in the field of Asian art and visual culture. The Network and its affiliated listserv serve as a platform to share research, promote events and exhibitions, foster a scholarly community, cultivate interest, and act as a vehicle for advocacy.