Asialink arts residents can choose from a host partner, a reciprocal residency, a residency laboratory or initiate their own.
Asialink arts residencies continue to evolve but for now applicants for 2014 can choose between the standard residency with an Asialink host partner, a reciprocal residency, a residential laboratory and a self-initiated residency. Since its inception in 1989 with residencies in Thailand and Malaysia for practitioners in the visual arts and craft-based arts, the Asialink Arts Residencies Program has expanded to include arts management, performing arts and writing and has increased the number of host partner countries to 13. In 2013 the Reciprocal Residencies Program added India to the exchange and in 2014 Singapore will become the fifth country to participate in the program. The Arts Residency Laboratory began in 2012 with an inaugural special “Roving Residency” for Indian interdisciplinary artist Nikhil Chopra, who tripled his collaborations, networks and opportunities with residencies at Carriageworks in Sydney, Asialink in Melbourne and the Fremantle Arts Centre.
