Asia Society @ NGV | Enduring Good: In Conversation With Charles Rockefeller
MELBOURNE, August 2, 2018 — Ian Potter Foundation CEO Craig Connelly and NGV Associate Director of Fundraising Misha Agzarian were joined live from New York by Asia Society Trustee Charles Rockefeller; Asia Society Vice President of Global Partnerships and Development Christine Davies; and Portland House Foundation's Tara Kenny, to discuss how giving has evolved since the establishment of landmark institutions like MoMa and Asia Society.
The National Gallery of Victoria's latest traveling troupe comes from New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The four-month exhibit is being backed by a series of live conversations, performances, dining activations, education exchanges, business forums and community participation that tell the stories behind Melbourne and New York. Asia Society Australia, in partnership with the NGV, hosted a breakfast panel on the changing nature of philanthropy across the two cities. (28 min., 9 sec.)
Deakin University Australia -- Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University is a leader in heritage studies. The centre works to address issues associated with difficult pasts, as well as the process of identity creation in connection to heritage throughout Asia, Australia and other parts of the world.
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Melbourne /ˈmɛlbən, -bərn/[3] is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia.[2]
The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which Melbourne is the common name. The metropolis is located on Port Phillip, a large natural bay, with the city centre positioned on the estuary of the Yarra River at the northernmost point of the bay.[4] The metropolitan area then extends south from the City Centre, along the eastern and western shorelines of Port Phillip, and expands into the hinterland. The City Centre is situated in the municipality known as the City of Melbourne, and the metropolitan area consists of a further 30 municipalities.[5] The metropolis has a population of 4.25 million, growing the fastest in numerical terms and fifth fastest in percentage terms since the previous year.[1] Inhabitants of Melbourne are called Melburnians.[6]
Melbourne was founded in 1835 (47 years after the European settlement of Australia) by settlers from Launceston in Van Diemen's Land.[7] It was named by Governor of New South Wales Sir Richard Bourke in 1837, in honour of the British Prime Minister of the day, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne.[7] Melbourne was officially declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847.[8] In 1851, it became the capital city of the newly created colony of Victoria.[8] During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the world's largest and wealthiest cities.[9] After the federation of Australia in 1901, it served as the interim seat of government of the newly created nation of Australia until 1927.[10]
Melbourne has been ranked as the world's most liveable city in ratings published by the Economist Group's Intelligence Unit (in 2011 and 2012).[11] It has also been ranked in the top ten Global University Cities by RMIT's Global University Cities Index (since 2006)[12][13][14] and the top 20 Global Innovation Cities by the 2thinknow Global Innovation Agency (since 2007).[15][16][17][18] Often referred to as the cultural capital of Australia,[19] Melbourne is the birthplace of cultural institutions such as Australian film (as well as the world's first feature film),[20][21] Australian television,[22] Australian rules football,[23] the Australian impressionist art movement (known as the Heidelberg School)[24] and Australian dance styles such as New Vogue and the Melbourne Shuffle.[25][26] It is also a major centre for contemporary and traditional Australian music.[25]
The main passenger airport serving the metropolis is Melbourne Airport, which is the second busiest in Australia. The Port of Melbourne is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo.[27] Melbourne is also home to the world's largest tram network.[28]
Melbourne is an international cultural centre, with cultural endeavours spanning major events and festivals, drama, musicals, comedy, music, art, architecture, literature, film and television. Melbourne is the birthplace of Australian film and television,[22] Australian rules football,[23] the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism, Australian contemporary dance (including the Melbourne Shuffle and New Vogue styles), and is home to the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia's oldest and largest public art museum. In 2008, Melbourne became the second city after Edinburgh to be declared a UNESCO City of Literature. It has thrice shared top position in a survey by The Economist of the world's most liveable cities on the basis of a number of attributes which include its broad cultural offerings.[124]
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Creative Innovation 2019 Asia Pacific (Ci2019) featuring David Gonski AC and Dr Alan Finkel AO
Save the date as Melbourne will hold Asia Pacific's leading Innovation Summit. David Gonski AC (Chairman, ANZ Bank; Chancellor, UNSW; President, Art Gallery of NSW) and Dr Alan Finkel AO (Australia’s Chief Scientist) and 40+ innovators, educators and international leaders. Check out the key themes and line-up of global innovators and leaders, and register your team today: ci2019.com.au
Creative Innovation 2019 Asia Pacific is the leading Asia Pacific innovation summit taking place in Melbourne from 1-3 April 2019 at the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins.
The theme being explored is “Human Intelligence 2.0 – A Collective Future? How will we manage the transition?”
Creative Innovation 2019 Asia Pacific is the place to imagine the future, inspire your leadership and achieve business success. This is the premiere conference for anyone who cares about creativity, innovation, leadership, change, transformation and the future. It is the place to imagine the future, inspire your leadership and achieve business success.
The event brings together hundred of leaders from business, government, academia, community, not-for-profits and media, who will hear from a world-class line-up of over 40 visionary innovators, futurists and leaders. Ci2019 will help you upgrade yourself and your organisation to Intelligence 2.0; help you better understand, collaborate and prepare for our rapidly changing world; explain change drivers; explore the implications for the future; and expose the strategies and thinking that governments, businesses, NFPs and individuals will need to adopt to be successful.
You will walk away with the insights, knowledge and tools to develop the agility and leadership mindset you need to transform your organisation. And you will be inspired to build a collective future for humanity.
Museum showcases Australia's landmarks
The National Museum of Australia has unveiled a new gallery that tells the landmark tales of Australian history.
La Trobe University: Will you dance with me? | JCDecaux Australia
To show the power of dance as a treatment for Parkinson’s, La Trobe University teamed up with J. Walter Thompson and JCDecaux Australia to create interactive panels at Flinders St Station, Southern Cross Station and Melbourne Central. The campaign utilises interactive Innovate panels to showcase breakthrough research being undertaken by La Trobe University into the debilitating disease, and therapy to alleviate symptoms.
Creative credits:
Strategy – J. Walter Thompson
Creative – J. Walter Thompson
Production – Airbag
Media Planning – Carat
Media Partner – JCDecaux Innovate
What We Know About China's Spy Agency
China's main intelligence agency, the Ministry or State Security, has found itself in the spotlight, thanks in part to the political and trade tensions between China and the U.S. Bloomberg QuickTake explains what the MSS is.
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Australia's most popular art gallery
The ABC's John Taylor reports on the nation's most visited art gallery, the GOMA in Brisbane.
Asia Education Foundation Summer School 2016
This one-day professional learning program held at the Islamic Museum of Australia on Tuesday 19 January 2016, was developed to provide teachers with the skills necessary to equip their students with the intercultural capability and confidence to navigate a global world.
Speakers included:
• Professor Emeritus Gary Bouma AM, Professor of Sociology at Monash University and UNESCO Chair of Intercultural and Inter-religious relations, Asia Pacific
• Ms Sherene Hassan, First female Vice-President of the Islamic Council of Victoria and Board Director of the Islamic Museum of Australia
• Dr Shakira Hussein, Fellow at the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne
• Ms Maha Sukkar, Multicultural Liaison Officer at Victoria Police, Transit Safety Division
• Dr Jessica Walton, Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
• Dr Eeqbal Hassim, Academic at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education; expert in intercultural understanding in education
• Ms Toltu Tufa, Director at Afaan Publications and expert in cross-cultural curricula
• Rabbi Zalman Kastel, National Director of the Multi-Faith based Together for Humanity Foundation
The AEF has been leading professional learning for school leaders and teachers for over 20 years. Our programs aim to build professional practices to implement and lead innovative learning and teaching that equips young Australians with the knowledge, skills and understandings to communicate and engage with local, regional and global communities.
For more information about our upcoming professional learning programs please visit:
Then x Ten Exhibition Set-Up
The Power of the Poster: A Herman Miller Exhibition
fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
14-25 August 2012
Featuring: Eda Akaltun (Turkey); Emily Forgot (UK); Genevieve Gaukler (France); Sanghon Kim (Korea); Craig Redman & Karl Maier (Australia); Mrzyk & Moriceau (France); Felix Pfaffli (Switzerland); Keiichi Tanaami (Japan); Kam Tang (Hong Kong); Jonathan Zawada (Australia).
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The legend behind Linfox
From a one-truck business, to one clocking up the miles of nearly every country in Asia, Australian business legend Lindsay Fox shares his unique story.
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#SEAspotlight Talk: Building New Cultural Capital for Southeast Asian Art
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// A specially curated programme of talks, performances and installations featuring the most passionate art personalities, gallerists, curators and artists from Southeast Asia and beyond.
#SEAspotlight Talk: Building New Cultural Capital for Southeast Asian Art
// With With Aaron Seeto, Tan Boon Hui and Ursula Sullivan
Moderated by Johnni Wong
Date: 24 January 2019
Time: 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Venue: The Village at S.E.A. Focus, Gillman Barracks, Block 7, Lock Road S108935
Southeast Asian art is a fast-rising and growing sphere that is being shaped by both regional and international agents that are building and accumulating capital, support system and infrastructures for it to thrive on the global stage. This talk assembles individuals from different settings, both institutional and organic, public and private, to explore the evolving roles of collectors, institutions, dealers, galleries and non-profit spaces in building infrastructure that contributes to the growth of public appreciation and demand for Southeast Asian contemporary art.
The speakers will address questions such as: how do different infrastructures and organisations, both locally and worldwide, impact and influence the reception of contemporary art in Southeast Asia? How can synergy between the private and public be achieved so that national institutions can work with private and small initiatives to jointly contribute towards the development of the art and cultural landscape in the region?
About the Speakers:
Aaron Seeto, the Director of Museum MACAN, has vast experience working to advance the goals of contemporary arts organisations and curating significant exhibitions of artists from the Asia and Pacific regions. Seeto was formerly Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art, at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia where he led the curatorial team at the eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) in 2015. For eight years prior, he was the Director of Sydney’s ground-breaking 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Boon Hui Tan is Director of Asia Society Museum in New York, where he leads the organisation’s global arts and cultural activities spanning the visual arts, performing arts and film. In his role, he oversees the museum’s exhibition programmes and collections, including the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection of Traditional Asian Art, and the Contemporary Art collection of photography and new media works by Asian and Asian-American artists. Prior to this, he was Assistant Chief Executive at the National Heritage Board in Singapore, and Director of the Singapore Art Museum.
Ursula Sullivan is the Co-Director of Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Singapore. Sullivan+Strumpf is one of Asia-Pacific’s leading contemporary art galleries, representing contemporary artists from Asia and Australia. Sullivan graduated from College of Fine Arts, University of NSW in 1996, working at Eva Breuer Art Dealer (Sydney), Savill Galleries (Melbourne), and Liverpool Street Gallery (Sydney) before establishing Sullivan+Strumpf in 2005 with Joanna Strumpf.
Johnni Wong is an ex-journalist, co-author of “Southeast Asian Art: Auction Benchmarks & Market Insights”, and former general manager of The Edge Galerie of The Edge Media Group. Prior to this, he was a senior editor at The Star English Daily in Malaysia.
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Fathoming the Orient: Australian Narratives
In the century from the 1880s to the 1980s there were numerous accounts of what ‘the rise of Asia’ would mean for Australia. While it can be reasonably argued that Australia underwent considerable change across this period there were also continuities in the way ‘Asia’ was represented, understood and explained. The lecture will discuss some of the repeated stories or narratives that governed the Australian discussion of Asia across this period. High on the list were the ‘warning’ and the ‘opportunity’ narratives and in each case Asia was understood to be moving towards an Asian future. There were often sharply polarised understandings of what this journey from a British/European past to an Asian future might mean, but the journey to Asia was often figured as a transformative encounter. Among those transformations was the shift from Australia as a remote outpost of the British Empire to a nation at the heart of the struggle for power between East and West. However Asia was understood, each of these competing narratives had implications for how Australians should respond to their changing circumstances thereby turning the response to Asia into a test of nationhood. Herein lies another story about the informed/visionary few who knew Asia and the ignorant many who did not.
About the Speaker
David Walker took up his current position as the inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University in February 2013. He has written extensively on Australian representations of Asia. His prize-winning book, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to 1939 (UQP, 1999) has been translated into Chinese and published by China Renmin University Press (2009). An English edition was published in India in the same year and a Hindi translation will be published in 2015. He is the co-editor with Agnieszka Sobocinska of Australia’s Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century (UWA Publishing, 2012). A collection of his Asia-related essays has been published under the title EncounteringTurbulence: Asia in the Australian Imaginary (Readworthy, 2013). His recently published personal history, Not Dark Yet (Giramondo, 2011) has been translated into Chinese by Professor Li Yao, with the Chinese title《光明行：家族的历史》and published by The People’s Literature Publishing House, Beijing (2014). His most recent publication, co-edited with Chengxin Pan, is Australia and China: Challenges and Ideas in Cross-cultural Engagement (Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences Press, 2015). David Walker is Alfred Deakin Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
The George Ernest Morrison Lecture series was founded by Chinese residents in Australia and others in honour of the late Dr G. E. Morrison (1862-1920), a native of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
The objects of the foundation of the lectureship were to honour for all time the memory of a great Australian who rendered valuable services to China and to improve cultural relations between China and Australia. The annual Morrison Lecture is organised by a committee of ANU colleagues from the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.
The George E Morrison Lecture Series is sponsored by the China Institute and the Australian Centre on China in the World.
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA | Wandering Around The City
FLYING TO MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA | Wandering Around The City
This video documents Lorna and I leaving Asia and flying to Melbourne, Australia from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines. We flew with Cebu Pacific, who are a low-cost airline. The 7.5 hour flight was okay, nothing special as to be expected with a low-cost airline.
We landed in Melbourne Victoria around 3.30pm local time but by the time we cleared immigration, collected our luggage and got to our hotel in Melbourne CBD it was pretty late.
The next day we wandered around the city, visited a few of the Melbourne museums, took in the city and saw some sights as we only had one full day there. Even though it was winter the weather on this day was pleasant. I will be back in Melbourne again soon, it was a fantastic city!
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MSD DIRECTOR'S SERIES 2012 - Corbett Lyon
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The Housemuseum: speculations on the conjunction of art and architecture and the private/ public realm
Introduction by: Professor Philip Goad - Director, Melbourne School of Design
Presentation by: Corbett Lyon - Lyons
11 July 2012 - Lyon Housemuseum, Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Presentation Outline:
The art museum from private 'wunderkammer' to modern art museum has been a fertile site for investigation and critique by architects, curators, collectors and art historians.
The beginning of the 21st century has seen an unprecedented expansion in the number of public museums worldwide and the concurrent emergence of new private museums and collections which offer an alternative experience to our public institutions. How are these new museums re-calibrating the relationship between art and architecture? How is contemporary art and new media being framed through new spatial considerations and modes of display? What will follow the now ubiquitous 'white cube'?
The Housemuseum, located in Melbourne's eastern suburbs, is an experimental and speculative project which Lyons has used to explore new possibilities for the conjunction of art and living, to challenge traditional concepts of public and private space and to explore new relationships between art and architecture.
In this illustrated lecture Corbett Lyon will trace the key precedents, influences and concepts which have informed the Housemuseum design -- Guggenheim, Keisler, Soane, the Parisian flaneur, collection taxonomies, modes of display and the genealogy of the museum type -- and how these research strands have been brought together in a new hybridised type -- the 'housemuseum'.
As a building which functions as both private home and public museum, the Housemuseum interweaves and juxtaposes institutional and domestic spaces in a way which disturbs conventional readings of 'home'/'museum', and 'public'/'private' and displays contemporary artworks in an interior landscape which is conceived around ideas of perspective, movement and scenography.
Professor Corbett Lyon is a founder and director of Lyons, a Melbourne based architectural design practice. Lyons' work focuses on the contemporary city and has been the recipient of numerous national and international design awards. Lyons has represented Australia at the Venice International Architectural Biennale and the firm's work has been published in the Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, in Taschen's A-Z of Modern World Architecture and in a recent practice monograph more -- the architecture of Lyons 1996 -- 2011 published by Thames & Hudson.
Melbourne - Australia, Part 5
Melbourne (Source: Wikipedia)
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The name Melbourne refers to an urban agglomeration area (and census statistical division) spanning 9,900.5 km2 that comprises the greater metropolis -- as well as being a common name for its metropolitan hub, the Melbourne City Centre. It is a leading financial centre in Australia and the Asia-Pacific, and has been ranked as the World's most livable city since 2011 -- according the Economist Intelligence Unit (and in the top three since 2009).
Melbourne is located on the large natural bay of Port Phillip, with its City Centre situated at the northernmost point of the bay -- near the estuary of the Yarra River. The metropolitan area extends south from the City Centre, along the eastern and western shorelines of Port Phillip, and expands into the hinterlands. The City Centre is located in the municipality known as the City of Melbourne, and the greater metropolis consists of a further 30 municipalities. Melbourne has a population of 4.25 million, and the fastest growing population among Australian capital cities. Inhabitants of Melbourne are called Melburnians.
Founded on 30 August 1835, by settlers from Launceston in Van Diemen's Land (in what was then the Colony of New South Wales), it was declared a Crown settlement in 1837. The settlement was named Melbourne by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, to honour the British Prime Minister of the day William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. It was declared a city by Queen Victoria in 1847, and became the capital city of the newly created Colony of Victoria in 1851. During the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s, it was transformed into one of the World's largest and wealthiest cities. After the federation of Australia in 1901, Melbourne served as interim seat of government for the newly created nation of Australia until 1927.
A major centre for Australian performing and visual arts, Melbourne is often referred to as Australia's cultural capital. It is the birthplace of Australian dance styles; the Melbourne Shuffle and New Vogue, the Australian film industry (including the world's first feature film), Australian impressionist art (known as the Heidelberg School), Australian rules football, and the Australian television industry. More recently, it has been recognized as a UNESCO City of Literature and an international centre for street art. It is home to many of Australia's largest and oldest cultural institutions such as the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne Zoo, the National Gallery of Victoria and the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building.
The main passenger airport serving the metropolis is Melbourne Airport, which is the second busiest in Australia, and the Port of Melbourne is Australia's busiest seaport for containerised and general cargo. The main metropolitan train terminus is Flinders Street Station, and the main regional train and coach terminus is Southern Cross Station. Melbourne is also home to the world's largest tram network.
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2010 Asia Research Institute - China's Century of Revolutions by Professor Wang Gungwu
SPEAKER :
Wang Gungwu
SYPNOSIS:
In 2011, China will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai geming, commonly called the 1911 Revolution. The original meaning of the word geming, the righteous Heaven-mandated removal of a previous regime, applied accurately in the eyes of the majority of Han people to the fall of the Manchu Qing dynasty. But the word was also used by the Japanese to translate the modern concept of revolution. For the rest of the century, this richer concept was more difficult to control. It was associated not only with the violent overthrow of monarchical systems (for example, the French and Russian revolutions) but also with the total transformation of socio-economic and even intellectual conditions of peoples and nations. For the most part in China, it was assumed that revolution meant total victory on the battlefield whether between warlords or between armed political parties. Other adjectives added new dimensions to the concept, extending to economic, social and cultural revolutions. Some of these challenged ancient ideas and practices, others focused on imposing new values, yet others transformed the lives of most Chinese people but, in the name of revolution, none could escape the use or threat of violence. Only by its return to reform after the revolution is over has China been able to find another road to wealth and power. The question I shall try to answer is, how much did China need its revolutions?
Wang Gungwu is University Professor, National University of Singapore; Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University. His books since 2000 include The Chinese Overseas: From Earthbound China to the Quest for Autonomy (2000); Dont Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese (2001); Anglo-Chinese Encounters since 1800: War, Trade, Science and Governance (2003); Diasporic Chinese Ventures Edited by Gregor Benton and Liu Hong (2004); China and Its Cultures: From the Periphery (2007, in Chinese); Chinese Civilization and Chinas Road Ahead (2007, in Japanese translation). He recently edited Nation-building: Five Southeast Asian Histories (2005); and (with Zheng Yongnian) China and the New International Order (2008).
He is a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities; Member of Academia Sinica and Honorary Member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science; and Commander of the British Empire (CBE). He has received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge, Hong Kong, Melbourne, ANU, Sydney, Monash, Griffith, and Hull. In Singapore, he is Chairman of the East Asian Institute, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Heritage Centre; Board Member of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Professor Wang received his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees from the University of Malaya in Singapore, and his Ph.D. at the University of London (1957). From 1986 to 1995, he was Vice-Chancellor (President) of the University of Hong Kong.
DATE
12 January 2010
Time :
19:00 - 20:30
ORGANISER :
Asia Research Institute