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The first stage of Asialink Arts' pilot Eastern Indonesia - Northern Territory Partnership took place in early 2007, with promising results. Building on the successes of the Northern Territory's Indigenous arts sector, the program brings together arts practitioners currently working with and in remote communities to develop strategies to encourage the transmission of traditional culture to future generations. The program encompasses a variety of culturally significant art forms that inform and complement the broader cultural systems of the two regions.

Through this program we aim to foster the creation of regional, national and international networks and markets that will provide long-term support for the communities involved and promote confidence and pride in their artistic traditions.

The project has been developed in partnership with the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), Charles Darwin University, Nomad Art, Yilila, Red Flag Dancers and Yayasan Kelola in Jakarta and is supported by Arts Northern Territory and the Ford Foundation, Jakarta.

Three projects form the core of this partnership:

• Arts Management Internship Program
• Visual Arts Project
• Performing Arts Project

Please read Engaging Cultures Across the Timor Sea [pdf, 308kb,1 page], a recently published article in the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Journal for background information on the project.

Visual Arts Program

In January 2007 Joanna Barrkman (Senior Curator of South-East Asian Art and Material Culture at MAGNT and project advisor) accompanied Winsome Jobling (papermaker, Darwin) and Leon Stainer (printmaker, Darwin) to Baun, Amarasi in West Timor to introduce fine art print and paper-making techniques to a local sanggar or weaving collective. Further workshops have since been held, including one in January 2008, to make additional work, and a series of prints is currently being produced for exhibition during the Darwin Festival in August. The show will include a number of textiles made by the community as the motifs and imagery employed by the weavers form the basis of these new works. Nomad Art will represent the sanggar in the Northern Territory, selling multiples of the print series and a range of the sanggar’s textile work.

Amarasi: Winsome Jobling sharing papermaking techniques with local Baun artists, West Timor 2007.

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For further information regarding this program, please contact:

Ms Sarah Robins
Arts Program
Asialink
Level 4, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, 3010

Telephone: (03) 8344 3581
Email: s.robins@asialink.unimelb.edu.au