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Upcoming Event Information

 

Australian Ballet Japan Tour 2025 "Don Quixote"

30 May-1 June 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)

Australian Ballet Press Release

More information (the Japan Performing Arts Foundation (NBS) website)

More information (Australian Ballet website)

Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo
Photo: Rainee Lantry

Australian Ballet

 

Works by Australian artists, Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck and Sam Jinks to be exhibited at the ‘Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025’

13 April-13 October 2025
Osaka, Osaka (Osaka Culturarium, Tempozan)

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Patricia Piccinini, The Comforter
© Patricia Piccinini  Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and the artist

 

Ron Mueck, Untitled (Man in a sheet)
© Ron Mueck Courtesy of Olbricht Collection and Anthony D'Offay, London
Photo: Joachim Fliegner, Bremen

 

Sam Jinks, Woman and Child
©Sam Jinks Courtesy of the artist, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney and Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen

 

Stuart Skelton to perform in “Parsifal” and “Missa Solemnis” as part of the Spring Festival in Tokyo

27, 30 March, 4 and 6 April 2025
Taito-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan)

More information

Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke

Stuart Skelton

 

Kylie Minogue: Tension Tour 2025

12 March 2025
Koto-ku, Tokyo (Ariake Arena)

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Kylie Minogue

 

Kate Crawford to participate in Mori Art Museum's "MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art" exhibition

13 February-8 June 2025
Minato-ku, Tokyo (Mori Art Museum)

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Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025
2023
Installation view: Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power,1500–2025, Osservatorio Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2023-2024
Photo: Piercarlo Quecchia – DSL Studio

Kate Crawford

 

'Goldfish' by Terrapin in association with Aichi Prefectural Art Theater

9-16 February 2025
Nagoya, Aichi (Aichi Prefectural Art Theater), Chiryu, Aichi (Patio Chiryu) and Yokkaichi, Mie (Yokkaichi City Cultural Center)

9 and 11 February Aichi Prefectural Art Theater
14 February Patio Chiryu
16 February Yokkaichi City Cultural Center 

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Terrapin 

 

Film "2040" in Japanese theatres

11 January 2025 - 

More information (in Japanese)

 

Michael Greave to participate in the Artist In Residence program at Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio

5-22 January 2025
Sapporo, Hokkaido (Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio)

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Michael Graeve
Die Relation der Unschärfe, 2020.
Installation view at Das Esszimmer - Raum für Kunst+, Bonn.
Photo: Michael Graeve.

Michael Greave

 

'This Must Be the Place'A Photography Exhibition by Lisa Knight

3 December 2024 - 31 January 2025
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (Hotel Indigo)

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Aretha Brown's mural painting

December 2024-
Nerima-ku Tokyo (on B1 floor towards Exit 3 at the Shinsakuradai station on the Seibu Yurakucho line)

Aretha Brown

 

Maria Fernanda Cardoso's work at "DANCING WITH ALL: The Ecology of Empathy"

2 November 2024 -16 March 2025
Kanazawa, Ishikawa (The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)

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International Symposium: 'Around New Ecologies: Finding the Rhythm to Dance With'
2 November 2024
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Maria Fernanda Cardoso, On the Origins of Art I-II, 2016
© Maria Fernanda Cardoso

Maria Fernanda Cardoso

 

Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report

20 June 2024
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)

More information (in Japanese)

Archived video

Footscray Community Arts

 

Australian Studies Association of Japan 2024 National Conference

15-16 June 2024
Matsuyama University, Himata Campus (Matsuyama, Ehime)

More information (in Japanese)

Archived video

Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney "The 2023 Voice Referendum and Current Challenges to Australian Democracy"
English video clip

“Haiku and Australia—borderless, but placeless?”
English video clip

‘Borders and Identities: Impacts of the Covid pandemic’
English video clip

 

Ngioka Bunda-Heath to take part in the Saison AIR Partnership 2023 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project

15 August-11 September 2023
Koto-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio) adn Sapporo, Hokkaido (Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio)

Artist Talk:
17 August 19:00-20:30 at Morishita Studio

Workshop:
28 August 19:00-21:00 at Morishita Studio

More information (in Japanese)

Archived video

Ngioka Bunda-Heath, Blood Quantum

Photo:Michael Jalaru Torres

 

What Do Aboriginal Writers Question in Australian Contemporary Literature?

The Final Volume in the Series of Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian Literature
Commemorative Forum for the Publication of "Odyssey of the Horizon" by Alexis Wright

2 June 2023
Online & Shibuya, Tokyo (Club Hillside Salon)

More information

Archived video


 

The Masterpieces of Australian Contemporary Literature Series

Alexis Wright

 

Saison AIR Partnership 2022 Footscray Community Arts Exchange Project report

25 May 2023
Koko-ku, Tokyo (Morishita Studio)/Online

More information (in Japanese)

Archived video (in Japanese)

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Australia-related books recently published in Japan

 

"The Shortest History of Economics" by Andrew Leigh

Translated by Atsushi Kurowa, Published by Toyokeizaishimposha
December 2024-
More information (in Japanese)

 

"Hiring Humanitarian Entrants as a Migrant Labour Force in Regional Australia" by Kazuhiro Onozuka

December 2024-
More information (in Japanese)

 

 

"Australian Multicultural Society and Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era" by Ritsuko Kurita

July 2024-
More information (in Japanese)

 

"HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth" and "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"

April/October 2024-

April 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 1 The Living Earth"
More information (in Japanese)

October 2024- "HOKARI Minoru's works Book 2 Anti Minorities History"
More information (in Japanese)

 

 

Leah Purcell's "The Drover's Wife"/Alana Valentine's "Parramatta Girls"  (Australian play series vol.16) translated by Keiji Sawada

February 2024-

 

Mayumi Kamada ed. "Jiro Muramats and his Family: Portraits of the Family Connecting Japan and Australia" 

January 2024-

Digital edition

 

Archive for past publication before 2023

The Masterpieces for Australian Contemporary Literature Series

 

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