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Alicia King at TWS Creator in residence

8 May 2012 - 3 August 2012

Alicia King is taking part in Tokyo Wonder Site(TWS)'s Exchange Residency Program and is staying at TWS Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence program from May to August, 2012.

Alicia King is an interdisciplinary artist based in Australia. In 2009, Alicia was awarded a PhD from the University of Tasmania for Transformations of the flesh; rupturing embodiment through biotechnology - an artistic exploration of relationships between biotech practices and the physical, ethical and ritual human and animal body. She has undertaken biotech projects through artistic research at SymbioticA; the University of Tasmania School of Medicine; and the Vrij University Amsterdam.
Alicia has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, most recently in MONANISM at the MONA Museum, Tasmania; VISCERAL, at Science Gallery, Dublin.  Alicia has undertaken various Residencies including at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Foundation BAD, Rotterdam; SymbioticA, Western Australia; and in the Galapagos Islands.  At TWS, she will develop a new visual and conceptual mythology for technologically mediated and transformed flesh, drawing from historic and contemporary Japanese animism, which will continue through an Australia Council studio Residency in 2013. Alicia is one third of The Holy Trinity collaboration with artists Tricky Walsh and Mish Meijers.

Ms King on the purpose of her Residency:
"While in Tokyo I will search for evidence of animism in contemporary urban Japanese culture.  I will explore the city for new materials, symbols and iconography referencing animism, the body and technology, biotechnology/synthetic/artificial life, and the body as a raw material. Traditions of Japanese animism and mysticism will also be researched through visiting relevant museums and galleries."

An open studio will be held on 21 July.

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