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ARTISTS: Pat Hoffie, Emil Goh, David Griggs, Mehan Keating and Louise Paramor.

CURATORS: Sarah Bond and Georgia Sedgwick

Asialink Arts' residency program has seen almost 500 artists embark on residencies across the width and breadth of Asia, covering 20 countries and over 300 host organisations during its 17-year history. All together that's a lot of journeys taken, friendships made and lives changed. Under my skin celebrates these journeys by bringing together the work of five artists whose residency experience continues to resonate in their work long after their return.

Residencies allow an artist the rare luxury of time away from routine; the space for contemplation and reflection and the opportunity to explore new techniques and approaches to art-making. By delving into the unfamiliar, the diverse and the stimulating, artists absorb these encounters and relate them back to their already developed aesthetics. These encounters challenge their localised practices and enrich both their work and the lives of the communities within which they are immersed. By returning the work of these artists to the countries of their inspiration, Under my skin, engages local audiences in a dialogue about the ways in which these artists' reconciled difference and displacement and thrived in the face of it.

The themes explored by the artists reveal a depth of understanding of the worlds in which they were immersed, worlds unknowable to the passing tourist or the casual observer. The opportunity to spend a sustained period of time in their host country allows for an intensive exchange of ideas. Artists have their work critiqued and tested in new cultural contexts and gain access to world-views that, once foreign and impenetrable, slowly unravel to offer new, insightful and enriching perspectives on their work. This is the beauty of a residency and the challenge of it. After all, what else motivates art-making more than the desire to know and represent the true nature of things? To understand and be understood. To get under the skin.

This project is supported by Asialink at the University of Melbourne, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Images of Australia Branch, and the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

	Emil Goh Double Parking Pillows 2008 Digital photographs from a Nokia N93i 171 x 830 cm Courtesy the artist
	David Griggs Blood on the Streets 2007 17:40 Min (production still) DVD, edition 6 Courtesy the artist and Kaliman Gallery, Sydney and Uplands Gallery, Melbourne.
	EPat Hoffie Madame Illuminata Crack's Pictorial Guide to the Universe (detail) 1999 silk stitching on silk, oil/ acrylic on canvas, 10 double panels, 114 X120 each Courtesy the artist
	Louise Paramor Show Court 3 2007 Curator Jane O'Neill, Photographer John Brash Courtesy the artist and Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
	Megan Keating Deep Water, Dark Water (detail Silk Cut 9) 2007 Rubber, paper, silk and rubber Courtesy the artist and Criterion Gallery, Hobart

 
Exhibition dates & venues:

Manila: 29 May - 26 June 2008, Ateneo Art Gallery
Singapore: 24 September - 25 October 2008, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts