Asia TOPA, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts, is hosting a quarterly event series titled Asia TOPA Radar, starting at the University of Melbourne on 30 November this year. While the festival will return in full force in February and March 2025 helmed by new Creative Director Jeff Khan, this event series seeks to bring together artists and audiences to uncover new art and culture from the Asia Pacific region.
The Pacific Sisters is a Tāgata Moana art collective of Pacific and Māori artists, designers, performers and musicians that emerged in Aoteroa New Zealand in the early 1990s. The line-up includes artists Lisa Reihana, Rosanna Raymond, Ani O’Neill, Suzanne Tamaki, Selina Haami, Niwhai Tupaea, Henzart @ Henry Ah-Foo Taripo, Feeonaa Wall and Jaunnie ‘Ilolahia. In 2019, the collective presented its first major retrospective, Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, and was recently announced as a participant in the 24th Biennale of Sydney Ten Thousand Suns.
