9. Julia Boros and Allison Chan on an artist residency at Icelandic Textile Centre and the 21st Biennale of Sydney

Episode Note:
Two guests:
Julia Boros, a Melbourne based artist - http://www.juliaboros.com
Allison Chan, a Melbourne based writer - http://peril.com.au/people/allison-chan/

Julia’s residency -
Blönduós, Iceland

Icelandic Textile Centre

Roni Horn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roni_Horn
A library of Glacial Water in Iceland - https://hyperallergic.com/226116/a-library-of-glacial-water-in-iceland/

Allison Chan
the 21st Biennale of Sydney. Superposition Equilibrium and Engagement - https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/venues/cockatoo-island/
Icarus Cell, 2016. Yukinori Yanagi. https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/artists/yukinori-yanagi/

Julie's upcoming exhibition:
Confluent, October 13 - November 13, 2018. Opening Saturday October 13 4-6pm.
Gallery Smith Project
http://www.gsprojectspace.com/exhibitions/


Host note:
In this episode, I had two eloquent and thoughtful speakers: Julia Boros, a Melbourne-based artist and Allison Chan, a Melbourne-based writer. Julia spoke about her recent liberating experience of taking an artist residency at Icelandic Textile Centre in Blönduós, Iceland. She unrevaled her deep connection to the unique landscape of Iceland and the community of Blönduós. Julia also showed us the relationship that another artist, Roni Horn (USA) has drawn with Iceland. From Julia's talk, a conundrum was emerged that one sometimes need travel far to find centre of self. Following Julia, Allison shared her critical view on the 21st Biennale of Sydney (BOS) this year and her experience of visiting the cockatoo island site. Allison asked how we should answer the questions: What is art in Australian? and What is the relevance of the biennale to the art in Australia? also, Is it nesccesary to bring an Asian perspective into the BOS? When Allison was asked about the works that stood out from her experience, Allison talked bout Yukinori Yanagi’s Icarus Cell. As I had seen the BOS this year too, I probably spoke too much on the topic of BOS. In the end of this episode, in response to the conversation about the BOS 2018, Julia brought up Roni Horn’s another project “A library of Glacial water in Iceland' and read a quote from Roni's writing about the need of traveling to different place. 

It was such a thoughtful discussion with Julis and Allison. There were so many good points opened up during our conversation. I hope the listeners will enjoy this episode too. :)

Vegetable soup was served after the episode recording. 


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