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Asialink Arts elevates the agency and capability of the Australian arts sector to engage with Asia through sharing insights, creating connections, and building capability.

16/02/2026

Regional//Regional program has been shortlisted for the Innovation Award at .australia ’s Asia Pacific Arts Awards!

Regional//Regional is being recognised for its regionally led, place‑based approach to international cultural exchange. The program connects regional Australian artists and communities with peers across Asia and the Pacific through long‑term, reciprocal collaboration, and champions First Nations storytelling and traditional knowledge to build deeper, community-led cross-cultural connections

Congratulations to the artists, regional partners and international collaborators whose leadership continues to strengthen Australia’s cultural engagement across the region.

Winners will be announced at the Asia Pacific Arts Awards on 23 February.

CulturalExchange

01/10/2025

Panjat Hujan is an experiment that unfolds in a sanctified space, guided by hidden grids that connect the living world with the abstract. Invoking a state of trance, sensation arrive in a spectrum, from intense to imperceptible. In the struggle to survive, are we strong enough to be gentle?

Trance dancers Tony Yap and Jack Riley, and composer Reuben Lewis bring the world of the Bugis-Bissu to life through movement and sound.

Following the performance, join Tony Yap, Indonesian videographer Rajecky “Ekhy” Kene (who documented Tony’s residency with the Bugis-Bissu community in Makassar), Dr Sharyn Davies (Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre, Monash University), and Dr Monika Winarnita (Asia Institute, University of Melbourne). Together, they’ll reflect on Bugis-Bissu heritage and explore how art, anthropology, and ritual intersect.

This project is seed-funded and co-presented by Asialink at the University of Melbourne through the Regional // Regional program with the support of The Playking Foundation. Temperance Hall and The Unconformity Festival are its commissioning partners.

Sunday 12 October | 6–8 PM
Temperance Hall, South Melbourne
Link in the bio for tickets

25/09/2025

Translating to “Climbing the Rain,” Panjat Hujan embodies the absence of the word “impossible” from the language of indigenous Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Exploring symbolic rituals that refract time and space, this multicultural collaboration draws from practice of a different era still relevant today, bridging shamanistic tradition and contemporary dance.

The Panjat Hujan performance will be followed by an artist talk and panel discussion led by the collaborating artists and academics from the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and the Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Centre at Monash University.

Performers:
Tony Yap
Jack Riley
Reuben Lewis

Artist Talk and Panel Discussion

Tony Yap
Dr Monika Winarnita, Asia Institute- University of Melbourne
Dr Sharyn Davies, Herb Feith Indonesia Engagement Center- Monash University

Link in bio for tickets and more details

10/09/2025

We’re excited to announce the first international Gathering of Regional // Regional in Sanriku, Japan from 4 – 8 October.

This October, Regional // Regional members from Australia, Philippines, India and Indonesia will be traveling to the Sanriku coastal region which was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Regional // Regional members will meet with their counterparts from the Sanriku International Arts Festival, producers, artists and grassroots communities in the Iwate Prefecture to explore themes of Creative Recovery and Regional Rejuvenisation through the arts.

Regional // Regional is an initiative of Asialink Arts and Culture at the University of Melbourne, supported by Circle 5 Foundation.

The Regional // Regional Sanriku Gathering is designed and delivered with Sanriku International Arts Festival, and assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia. The Gathering is also supported by the Yokohama Creative Foundation and Bray’s Run Productions.

Photo credits: Sanriku International Arts Festival (photos 1-3), Jillian Mundy for Regional // Regional lutruwita Gathering, Cristina Bevilacquia for Regional // Regional Gimuy Gathering

Visit the link on our bio to know more about Regional // Regional.

22/05/2025

Applications now open for The Weight of Mountains Filmmaking Residency

A Development and Thematic Residency Program for Film or Screen-based Media Artists

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. December 2025 - February 2026

Nếu bạn muốn nộp đơn bằng tiếng Việt, hãy gửi email đến [email protected]

The Weight of Mountains (TWOM) is a nomadic artist residency for filmmakers and screen based media artists, immersing artists in a new location every 2 - 4 years. Our next residency will take place in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam from 2nd December 2025 to 28th February 2026.

The residency program aims to bring together like minds with unique voices, perspectives, and backgrounds in film while enabling site and environment to act as a character, provocation, portal, or cinematic presence through immersion into global locations.

We collaborate with local arts organisations, arts collectives, and/or local filmmakers. We try to harmonise the interests of filmmakers with the communities we take them to and contribute to the broader film community in each region.

As we reinvigorate the residency for 2025/2026, we’re inspired to reimagine The Weight of Mountains framework in Ho Chi Minh City — offering artists a provocative challenge: how can they engage with the layered complexity, cultural intersections, historical echoes, and contemporary energy distinct to Ho Chi Minh City?

The residency includes accommodation, residency hub/studio space at A Farm International Art Residency, various screenings and networking events, as well as the support of a local curator in Ho Chi Minh City, and the TWOM team.

Applications close 2 June, 2025.

To apply please visit: www.twomfilm.com

05/03/2025

Don’t miss the last week of !

On now until 10 March

Key shows happening this week in chronological order (we can’t pick favourites but these are pretty special).

Lapse
6 - 8 March

University of Melbourne, Southbank
https://www.asiatopa.com.au/event/lapse

Performing and visual art icon Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia) brings the Australian exclusive of ‘Lapse’ to Asia T**A for two nights. Experience the wonder and spectacle of Suryodarmo’s new work, as it entices audience to find their humanity in this dynamic dance work.

Ane Ta Abia
8 March

Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne
https://www.asiatopa.com.au/event/ane-ta-abia

The Australian Art Orchestra are gifting Melbourne with a one-night-only special performance of Ane Ta Abia, shaped in collaboration with the Tatana Village Choir. This moment brings together a 12-member choir from Tatana, 8 members of the Australian Art Orchestra and a series of short films.

KAGAMI
On now until 16 March

Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
https://www.asiatopa.com.au/event/kagami

Witness the last masterpiece by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto in ‘KAGAMI’. This acclaimed mixed reality concert soars into Melbourne just for Asia T**A. After wowing crowds across the globe, the unique experience puts on stage with Sakamoto, combined with the innovative technology of Tin Drum. This work must close 16 March, and is an epic new style of work sure to delight those interested in classical music, technology, innovation and what it means to connect with performers.

12/12/2024

Featuring song, dance, atmospheric sound design and large-scale visuals, ‘s powerful and joyous new First Nations commission transports you onto Country. Created over five years of cross-cultural collaboration, Gapu Ŋupan has been made by extraordinary Yolŋu, Paiwan and Amis artists from North East Arnhem Land and Taiwan, with artistic and cultural direction from Rachel Wallis, Banula Marila and Suming Rupi.

Gapu Nupan is part of ‘s Schools Program features a variety of mainstage performances, workshops and incursions. The program is made accessible to eligible schools via the First Call Fund program, providing subsidised tickets and transport.

https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2025/schools-and-teachers/gapu-ngupan

Address

Level 4, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Melbourne, VIC
3010

Telephone

+61383444800

Website

https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts

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