Edge of Elsewhere

Overview

This is really very exciting. It isn't often that a platform for collaborative thinking and making is given enough time to find its roots and address something specific. Too often 'collaboration' is ceremoniously trumpeted around as though it deserves praise as a word regardless of the activity it is meant to encompass. Edge of Elsewhere is different - this three-year (2010-2013) collaborative project will in fact produce some fruit.

Organised to be part of the Sydney Festival, Edge of Elsewhere brings together artists from Asia, Australia and the Pacific to develop new work in Sydney. Specifically, the artists will address the city itself - the citizens, the geography and the various communities - enabling art to be responsive rather than premeditated.

Among the many artists involved are the Korean text/net-based team YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Australian image-architect Brook Andrew, as well as the Chinese anthropological video maker Wang Jian Wei.

The Asia/Pacific Cultural Futures Forum will be held as part of Edge of Elsewhere at Capbelltownn Arts Centre on January 16 at 2.00pm, and the project is also taking place at Gallery 4A (181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket) from January 16 - February 6.