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By culture360
30 May 2024
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Taking place from 10 to 13 June in Prague, Czech Republic, ASEF LinkUp will serve as a meeting point for up to 20 selected participants from the cultural and government …
By culture360
16 May 2024
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Taking place from 10 to 13 June in Prague, Czech Republic, ASEF LinkUp will serve as a meeting point for 20 selected participants from the cultural and government sectors to …
By Kerrine Goh
25 Sep 2023
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The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival that celebrates the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and promotes the dialogue and exchange amongst artists from the 2 regions. …
08 Jun 2023
Kamiya Art Residence (KAIR) was implemented in Shikoku in 1999 by a group of volunteer inhabitants concerned by the dramatic decline of their town. Using art as a catalyst, they …
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Participants of the online residency Virtual Workings Tony Sugiarta (Indonesia), Masako Tanaka (Japan), Arie Syarifuddin (Indonesia) and Marinella Andrea Mina (Philippines) worked together on the topic of "Interweaving Textiles" under …
29 Jul 2019
This month, culture360.ASEF.org is starting a new series of articles on the topic of #peripheries. The #peripheries have been regarded as being in the geographical margin, distant from the capital …
By Kerrine Goh
26 Feb 2019
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The Olympic Games are undoubtedly the most ambitiously celebrated sports festivals of our time. While countries bid to host the Games with great fervour despite the involvement of a huge …
25 Aug 2015
ASEF culture360 contributor Claire Rosslyn WILSON talks to artists Jun YANG and Yan PRESTON about their experiences working on projects in both Asia and Europe as they share the challenges …
By Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio
05 Mar 2014
culture360 contributor Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio interviews Makiko Yamaguchi from the Tokyo Culture Creation Project to find out more about her perspective on "internationalisation" through arts, culture and creativity.
14 Feb 2013
culture360.org Editor Judith Staines visits the southern Japanese city of Beppu and discovers a lively contemporary arts scene alongside the traditional hot springs culture.
02 Jan 2013
The history of Biennales and how they have developed in Asia is very young when compared to Biennales in other parts of the world. However, with this Shifting Gravity, there …
30 Oct 2011
Artists Jasmina Llobet and Luis Fernández Pons look at how independent art spaces and artist-run initiatives in Japan function and their place within the contemporary arts scene.
17 Oct 2011
Artists Jasmina Llobet and Luis Fernández Pons visited a number of artist-in-residency programmes in Japan and offer their impressions and advice to artists considering applying.
03 Dec 2010
Judith Staines, Culture360.org’s Europe Editor, met Spanish artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons during their residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in Korea and asked them about their nomadic …
06 Dec 2009
The 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale was held in Japan in commemoration with the 10th anniversary of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. The exhibition included artists from 21 Asian countries.
15 Apr 2008
Kentaro Matsui is a theatre critic and also Programme Director of the Tokyo based Setagaya Public Theatre, Japan.
15 Apr 2008
[caption id="attachment_2811" align="alignright" width="170" caption="Daisuke Muto, Japan "][/caption] Contributed by Ive Stevenheydens 'We are interrelated through history' Daisuke Muto, Japan "I like to interpret the word 'contemporary' literally: a moment …
15 Apr 2008
What is 'contemporary' in performing arts today? What at first seems to be a very simple question actually has no straight or univocal answer at all.
