Artists have traded places between Australia and Japan, Taiwan and Korea since 2010 and from 2014 Singapore joins the program. Reciprocal resident artists Cath Brophy and Peiju Lien from Taiwan add their insights in a Q&A that follows this introduction to the program.
The Asialink Reciprocal Residencies program is what the title says, an artist swap, but it’s not any artist, it is an artist from a specified place in a direct exchange. For 2014, the reciprocal arrangements are between Taipei and Fremantle, Korea and NSW, and, new to 2014, Singapore and Melbourne. The Asialink Arts Residency Program only manages Australian artists; the international host partners propose artists from their countries annually, which means Asian artists can’t apply for a residency through Asialink. All of this is explained on the Asialink website.
