Australia China Young Professionals Initiative Sydney

Proudly presents
MAPPING THE OPPORTUNITY LANDSCAPE IN THE ASIAN CENTURY
with Guest Speaker Heather Ridout

Presented in association with the Australia China Business Council
22 February 2012
6.30pm
Australia China Business Council

Shanghai Room
Level 13 The Gateway
1 Macquarie Place
Sydney NSW 2000

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Join us for an evening of discussion and Q&A on the future of the Australia-China economic relationship

With Heather Ridout, Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group & newly appointed Board Member of the Reserve Bank of Australia, in conversation with Christian Edwards, Senior Correspondent at Xinhua Daily News

In 2011 Heather Ridout was rated #9 in the Australian Financial Review’s annual ‘Covert Power’ list, and is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most influential and highest profile business leaders. Heather has been with the AIG and its predecessor, the Metal Trades Industry Association, for over 25 years. In that time she has become one of the most respected voices of the business sector and a leading figure in Australia’s public policy debate, with particular interest in the fields of economic policy, industry innovation, and education and training.

In April, Heather leaves Ai Group and will take up position as the fourth woman ever to be appointed to the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Heather’s other current appointments include Member of the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Manufacturing and Member of the Federal Government’s Business Roundtable on Climate Change.

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Sound Kapital, Creative Asia’s first major production for 2012, and the largest showcase of Beijing rock to hit Australian shores yet, went off with a bang last week at Carriageworks in Redfern. With live performances by three of China’s hottest indie bands; Nova Heart, AV Okubo and Xiao He, and projections of iconic images of Beijing’s music scene by photographer Matthew Niederhauser, Bay 17 was transformed into the heaving depths of Beijing’s underground music clubs. And audiences loved it,  even managing to get a rowdy moshpit going to the beats of AV Okubo. Check out SBS video of the night here:

SBS Mandarin News Australia: Sound Kapital 3 Feb 2012

And music review of Sound Kapital from AU Review here: 

Sound Kapital was presented by Carriageworks and Creative Asia, and was an associated event of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival. Thanks to Maybe Mars, Matthew Niederhauser, Shaun Tenzenmen, AV Okubo, Nova Heart, FakeMusicMedia, and Xiao He for their participation and support.

Carriageworks and Creative Asia Present

SOUND KAPITAL

3 Feb 2011

Discover Beijing’s seething music underground in this one night only special event at Carriageworks

An associated event of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival

Projections by Matthew Niederhauser
Live Performances by Nova Heart, AV Okubo and Xiao He

Artist talk with Matthew Niederhauser 6pm FREE
Live performance 8pm $25

BOOKINGS:
www.carriageworks.com.au or 1300 723 038

DOWNLOAD MEDIA RELEASE

Randian http://www.randian-online.com/en/home.html

Randian 燃点 is China’s online magazine for critical culture. Launched in 2010, Randian 燃点 is owned and run by its editorial board. They seek to promote independent cultural debate in China and to foster intellectual exchange between China and the rest of the world. This means independent commentary on art, artists, exhibitions and galleries, as well as video, film, poetry, architecture, design. (Bilingual)

Iona Whittaker http://www.ionawhittaker.com/

Arts writer and editor Iona is a friend of mine with her finger very much on the pulse of the local Beijing visual art scene. Her blog features art reviews and writings also published in major arts publications including Art Review, Frieze online, Artforum online, LEAP, Art Asia Pacific, The Art Newspaper, Artinfo online, ArtSlant and ArtQuest. (English only)

Philip Tinari: http://philtinari.com/

Philip Tinari (b. 1979) is founding editor and acting publisher of LEAP, The International Art Magazine of Contemporary China, based in Beijing. Since 2007, he has run the publishing imprint, editorial office, and translation studio Office for Discourse Engineering. Tinari is a contributing editor to Artforum and adjunct professor in the College of Humanities at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. His self named blog covers visual art and social commentary in insightful and often very humorous ways.

These satirical videos by Chinese animator Pi San went viral online, the first of the series reaching 3 million viewers in the first day it was released:

BIG news for anyone who knows anything of China’s underground music scene:

Beijing’s hottest indie rock band are coming to Sydney! As part of their 3 city Australia Tour this November, Carsick Cars will be playing at FBi Social next Thursday Nov 3: See here for gig details
These guys are iconic leaders in China’s rapidly developing and wildly innovative music scene – their name is synonymous with cool for a whole generation of young Chinese. Find out why…

See poster below for full tour dates and details:

Water View No.15, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 50 cm

Prolific Chinese artist Guan Wei’s latest exhibition of new works opens at Martin Browne Contemporary tomorrow, Tuesday 11 October and runs through until 6 November 2011. On display will be a series of new works, titled Play on The Beach, and you can see some of the beautiful images above and below.

Play on the Beach No-1.11, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm (triptych)

Also download the full catalogue here for a sneak peek at this stunning collection. 

I had a chat recently with Amanda Smith on Artworks, ABC Radio National about the Australian tour of the Chinese drama, ,Rhinoceros In Love, by Liao Yimei and Meng Jinghui. If you missed the broadcast on Sunday, it will be on again on Tuesday 3pm, or click here to listen to it online:

ABC Radio National Interview with Hannah on Rhinoceros in Love

The China Australia Literary Forum has wrapped up for this year and we finally have a moment to reflect on what a fantastic week it was. Three days of stimulating exchange and exchange between Chinese and Australian authors, translators, critics and academics, hosted by UWS in Sydney, and coordinated by Creative Asia, was followed by a series of talk sessions with the visiting Chinese authors as part of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

The event was the most significant literary exchange to be held between Australia and China, and hopefully will be the start of much more fruitful collaboration in this field in the future!

Check out SBS coverage of the event here

See the full program here

And click here for some pics of the event and our authors

In this important literary encounter, hosted by the UWS Writing and Society Research Group, ten prominent Chinese writers are visiting Sydney from 30 August to 2 September 2011 for in-depth discussions with their Australian counterparts about the role of writing in the contemporary world, the critical issues for writing in each society, and the prospects for literary and publishinginteraction between China and Australia in future.

The China Australia Literary Forum is part of the Year of Chinese Culture in Australia. This event is coordinated by Creative Asia for The University of Western Sydney.

For full program in English, click here. For full program in Chinese, click here.

Download media release in English and Chinese.

For event flyer, click here.