Culture
2014
January
© Hideo Iwasaki, Oron Catts, Juan M. Castro (2014) “Biogenic Timestamp” Project (2010-) NTT ICC
Oron Catts at "BioAesthetics Open Lab"
25 December 2013 - 2 March 2014
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2013/Openspace2013/Works/BioAesthetics_Open_Lab.html
©2012 Rohfilm GmbH, Lore Hoildings Pty Limited, Screen Ausralia, Creative Scotland and Screen NSW
"LORE" (film) by Australian director Cate Shortland
11 January 2014 -
http://www.sayonara-adolf.com/
Takasaka Masato
Return to Forever (Productopia)
2009
Cardboard, wood, plastic, MDF,
acrylic, paint, paper, soft-drink cans,
tape and discarded product
packaging
Dimensions variable
Installation view:
"Cubism and Australian Art,"
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Photo: John Brash
Australian artists at the Roppongi Crossing 2013: OUT OF DOUBT exhibition
21 September 2013-13 January 2014
http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/roppongix2013/index.html
Dana Harris 'tokyo project'
18-26 January 2014 (27-30 January: Viewing by appointment only)
http://www.youkobo.co.jp/en/exhibition_events/2014/01/dana-harris.html
Japanese Studies Support Symposium at the National Diet Library - Speaker from Australia
30 January 2014
Symposium details (PDF)
http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/event/events/knssympo.html
Shonah Trescott - What Lies Beneath1 2012 oil on canvas 100x130cm Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and ANDO GALLERY
Shonah Trescott's works to be shown at the Ando Collection exhibition
14 January - 22 March 2014
http://www.andogallery.co.jp/en/gallery/exhibition/current/
Theatrical release of Australian film "The Sapphires"
11 January 2014 -
http://soulgirls.jp/
February
© 2013 Mobile Projection Unit All Rights Reserved
© Weerianna Street Media
Australian works at the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival - Exhibition of Award-winning Works
5 February 2014 - 16 February 2014
Entertainment Division
Jury Selections
"Snake the Planet!"
Lukasz KARLUK, representative of MPU (Mobile Projection Unit)
Manga Division
Jury Selections
"Ngurrara"
Tyson MOWARIN / Stuart CAMPBELL
http://j-mediaarts.jp/?locale=en
Australian Delegation to Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting
8 - 16 February 2014
Delegation: Rosemary Hinde, Delegation Leader; Jason Cross, Insite Arts; Tamara Harrison, Polyglot Theatre; Gene Peterson, Onyx Productions; Willoh Weiland, Aphids; Nic Clarke, Ranters Theatre
http://www.tpam.or.jp/2014/?lang=en
Report on Australian Cultural Policies and Museums - The Sixth 21st Century Museum Summit
8 February 2014
http://www.k-i-a.or.jp/shonan/museum/detail.php?ID=219
Theatre "Black Medea"
22-24 February 2014: Kanazawa performance
http://www.theater-angelus.com
1 March 2014: Ishinomaki performance
http://www.genki.miyagiken.biz
Australian musician Oren Ambarchi to perform at CCA Sound Workshop Live
27 February 2014
http://cca-kitakyushu.org/material/20140227_sw.pdf
Bark Painting "My Country"
Made by Johnny Bulunbulun Group: Aboriginal Australian Country:
Australia Made in 1982
National Museum of Ethnology
Photo: Courtesy of the National Museum of Ethnology
Aboriginal works exhibited at "The Power of Images: The National Museum of Ethnology Collection" at the National Art Center Tokyo
19 February-9 June 2014
http://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2013/power_of_images/
"Re-Inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation" by Tessa Morris-Suzuki published in Japanese
Starting February 2014
http://www.ibunsha.co.jp/0319.html
March
Joint concert, Aboriginal art exhibition and didgeridoo performance celebrating the 35th anniversary of Osaka-Melbourne sister-city relationship
23 - 27 March 2014
http://www.city.osaka.lg.jp/keizaisenryaku/page/0000256182.html
nikosono's exhibition "Australian Biotope 24" : Abstract and aerial Photography from Western Australia
27 March-1 April 2014
http://americabashigallery.com/exhibitions/
Alfredo&Isabel Aquilizan "LADE: Project Another Country" 2014 Photo: Osamu Nakamura
Alfredo&Isabel Aquilizan's work shown at Ichihara Lakeside Museum as part of Naka-Boso International Art Festival Ichihara Art x Mix
21 March-31 May 2014
http://www.ichihara-artmix.jp/
April
Rising star of Australian jazz, Linda Oh (bass) to debut in Japan
4-12 April 2014
Short film challenge launched in Australia to raise global awareness about the homeless
Until 11 April 2014
http://screenmyshorts.com//
Wrestling match for the Australian Pacific Pro Heavyweight Championship
25 April 2014
http://wnc-pro.com/performance.php?p=3&ckey=58
Along the River - exhibition of prints by Australian based collaborators Damon Kowarsky and Kyoko Imazu
18 April - 11 May 2014
http://art.damon.fastmail.net/show/aesop/kawaramachi2014/index.htm
©2013 Railway Man Pty Ltd, Railway Man Limited, Screen Queensland Pty Limited, Screen NSW and Screen Australia
Australian film director Jonathan Teplitzky’s “The Railway Man” hits the screen
19 April 2014-
http://www.railway-tabi.jp/
Stephen Mushin's shadow projection "The People's Projections" at Dogo Onsenart 2014
10 April 2014- 31 December 2014
May
Australian Daniel Smith conducts the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
5 May 2014
http://yomikyo.or.jp/2014/03/gw.php(Tickets sold out)
Bark Painting "My Country"
Made by Johnny Bulunbulun Group: Aboriginal Australian Country:
Australia Made in 1982
National Museum of Ethnology
Photo: Courtesy of the National Museum of Ethnology
Gallery Tour for "The Power of Images" Exhibition
Speaker: Howard Morphy(Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University)
18 May 2014
http://www.nact.jp/exhibition_special/2013/power_of_images/index.html
Exhibition of copperplate prints by the late Jörg Schmeisser
17-30 May 2014
http://www.aokigallery.jp/
PETER BURKE - Open Studio at Youkobo Artspace, Tokyo
24 May 2014
http://www.youkobo.co.jp/air/2014/05/peter-burke.html
Tropfest in Japan: The world's largest short film festival from Australia coming to Yokohama!
31 May 2014
http://www.tropfest.jp/
https://www.facebook.com/tropfestinjapan
Australian Music Experience
31 May 2014
http://oz-music.jp/
http://www.liquidroom.net/schedule/20140531/18474/
http://p-vine.jp/schedules/82485
Title: The Last Supper
Medium: Salt
Dimensions: 9m(L) x 1.72m(W) x 1.3m(H)
Year of production: 2014
Australian artists Ken + Julia Yonetani to conduct an Artist-in-Residency in Okinawa
15 May - 15 July 2014
http://www.kenandjuliayonetani.com/

Tracey Moffatt's work shown at the "Go-Betweens: The World Seen through Children" exhibition at the Mori Art Museum
31 May – 31 August 2014
http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/go_betweens/index.html
Theatrical release of Australian-French film "ADORE"
31 May 2014-
http://utsukushiienohokai.com/
June
Sights from Sirens - first ever large group survey exhibition of Aboriginal women photographers tours to Kawasaki City Museum, Japan, for the JAALA Biennial
June 7-15
http://www.midden.net.au
JAALA Biennial 2014
Poko Australian Wildflower Exhibition
7-30 June 2014
http://www.oullib.otemon.ac.jp/aus/aus_index.html
Photo credit:
Léon BAKST
Costume for the Blue God, from the Ballets Russes production of Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God), c. 1912
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
"Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume" exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia
18 June - 1 September 2014
http://www.nact.jp/exhibition_special/2014/Ballets_Russes/index.html
Jeffrey SHAW “The Legible City” 1988-91 interactive computer installation ZKM Collection © Jeffrey SHAW
Australian media artist Jeffrey Shaw exhibits his work “The Legible City” at the exhibition “Open Space 2014”
21 June 2014 - 8 March 2015
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2014/Openspace2014/index.html
Artist talk by Jeffrey Shaw
22 June
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Exhibition/2014/Openspace2014/events.html
© Chris Dunlop
Stradivarius Charity Concert 2014 with Ray Chen
Stradivarius Charity Concert 2014 with Ray Chen Australian violinist, Ray Chen plays at Yomiuri Otemachi Hall (with Danjulo Ishizaka and Akira Eguchi)
24 June 2014
http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/event/2013/11/post-409.php
Australian violinist, Ray Chen with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
25 June 2014
http://info.yomiuri.co.jp/event/2013/11/-withbr.php
Publication of "Japanese Women Marriage Migrants to Australia: Changing Japanese Ethnic Community in Contemporary Australia" by Sir Neil Currie Award winner, Takeshi Hamano
June 2014
July
VINCE JONES - Australia's greatest jazz singer/trumpeter is coming back to Tokyo -
1-3 July 2014
http://www.cottonclubjapan.co.jp/jp/sp/artists/vince-jones/
"Furious", a play by Michael Gow, performed by Japanese theatre company Haiyuza
6-13 July 2014
Details for the theatre
Showing of "ENGI", an Australia-Japanese multidisciplinary 'work in progress' performance
12 July 2014
http://www.a-tanz.com/dance/20140712_ADTstpf.html
Image of the performance in 2013 by Michihiro Furumoto
Theatre company RINKOGUN presents "Hanchos' Meeting in Cowra"
10-20 July 2014 in Tokyo
http://rinkogun.com/Cowra_side_A.html
23 July 2014 in Kobe
http://rinkogun.com/Cowra_side_A_Kobe.html
25 July 2014 in Nagoya
http://rinkogun.com/Cowra_side_A_Nagoya.html

International Theatre Exchange Seminar 2014 Australian special feature "Discover theatre plays from a multicultural society"
15-22 July 2014
http://jda.jp/seminar02.html
© Photo: Johan Persson
Australian ballet dancer, Steven McRae in Alina Cojocaru Dream Project 2014
20-27 July 2014 Tokyo
http://www.nbs.or.jp/stages/1407_Cojocaru/index.html
29 July 2014 Fukuoka
https://www.acros.or.jp/r_event/sponsor_detail.php?event_id=6361
2014 ASAJ International Conference
Transformation of Australian Studies in a Globalising Age
26-27 July 2014
http://australianstudies.jp/event/
"Phantom Limb" directed by Alex Grigg
Australian films in the Competition program of the 15th International Animation Festival in Japan - HIROSHIMA 2014
21 - 25 August 2014
http://hiroanim.org
August
Cookin' On 3 Burners new CD "Blind Bet" released in Japan
6 August 2014
http://p-vine.jp/music/pcd-93822
Kristian HAGGBLOM
APOGEE - KINGS CANYON, AUSTRALIA, 2000
©Kristian HAGGBLOM
Kristian Haggblom's work shown at the 'Basically. Forever' exhibition, commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.
9-24 August 2014
http://syabi.com/e/contents/exhibition/index-2253.html
2009 Screen Australia, New South Wales Film and Television Office, Scarlett Pictures Pty Ltd, Warwick Thornton & CAAMA Productions Pty Ltd
SAMSON AND DELILAH - Cannes Film Festival praised title featuring Aboriginal boy and girl's journey - finally released in Japan
16 August - 5 September 2014
http://www.sandaifestival.jp
Australia-based artist Stephen Mushin Exhibition
'Now, if, what, then Farming Tokyo'
18 - 31 August 2014 Exhibition
http://www.spiral.co.jp/e_schedule/detail_1160.html
21 August 2014 Forum
http://www.spiral.co.jp/e_schedule/detail_1160.html
September
Melbourne based artist M T WALKER Exhibition "ECONASIA: ROMAJI"
2-21 September 2014
http://gallery-tomo.com/?p=3267&lang=en
Australian Jazz Journey 2014 - performances by Cookin' On 3 Burners
6 September 2014: 13th TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL 'The PLAZA'
http://www.tokyo-jazz.com/
7 September 2014: 13th TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL 'LABO STAGE'
http://www.tokyo-jazz.com/
10-11 September 2014: School visits in Iwate prefecture
13 September 2014: Jozenji StreetJazz Festival in SENDAI
http://www.j-streetjazz.com/
15 September 2014: Iwate JAZZ Festival 2014
Iwate JAZZ 2014
Melbourne Print Art Exhibition from the Victorian College of the Arts and Exchange Presentation and Workshop at the 2nd international Mokuhanga conference 2014
11-14 September 2014
http://mokuhanga.jp/satellite/
ROAR in Japan :The SANGI Collection
17th -21st September 2014
Australian painters Mark Howson and Karan Hayman,who are the founders of the inspiring modern artists' collective "ROAR" in Melbourne, to exhibit a series of works from 1990s at The SANGI Collection.
http://www.sangi-co.com/vcms_lf/news/release20140623_e.pdf
Patricia Piccinini, 2013 Photo: Martin Ollman
Patricia Piccinini's "Skywhale" to be shown for the first time in Japan
20, 21, 27 and 28 September 2014
http://kanda-tat.com
Lecture "Gallery education in Australia"
21 September 2014
Event flier
3rd touring exhibition International Architecture Biennale "Barbara Cappochin"
Australian architect Sean Godsell: Lecture at the Opening evening
26 September - 9 October 2014
http://www.asj-net.com/events/1409.php
2014
"Red Obsession" directed by Australian director Warwick Ross in Japanese theatres
27 September 2014 -
http://www.winenohimitsu.com/
October
Australian singer-songwriter Sorcha Chisholm performs at the Harajuku Crocodile
3 October 2014
http://www.sorchamusic.com/shows
Screening at Haneda Airport of films including Australian short film "Summer Breaks", starring Mia Wasikowska
4-26 October 2014(Weekends and holidays only)
http://www.shortshorts.org/cinematravel2014/
Lecture "The Future of Economic Cooperation in Asia?" by Peter Drysdale, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University in commemoration of his 2014 Japan Foundation Award
10 October 2014
http://www.jpf.go.jp/e/about/award/14/lecture.html
Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki of the Australian National University to speak at Symposium "Reconsidering Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Japan" at Aoyama Gakuin University
12 October 2014
http://www.jripec.aoyama.ac.jp/
Tommy Emmanuel Japan Tour 2014
15 October 2014: Billboard Live Osaka
16 October 2014: Shibuya duo music exchange
17 October 2014: COTTON CLUB (Sold out)
http://www.creativeman.co.jp/artist/2014/10tommyemmanuel/
Penny Ikinger Japan Tour 2014
Fri 17th Oct - Outbreak Club, Tokyo. Address: Daini Tarou bldg. B1 2-10 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku
Sat 18th Oct - Club Sensation, Yokohama. Address: 3-80 Miyagawa-cho Naka-ku Yokohama
Sun 19th Oct- UFO Club, Tokyo. Address: Harmony Hills B1F 1-11-6 Koenji-Minami, Suginami-ku
www.pennyikinger.com/
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Australian artist ghostpatrol's exhibition "Yamanoie"
17 October- 2 November 2014
http://ghostpatrol.net/entry/yamanoie-tokyo/
"Mary meets Mohammad" ©Kristy Dowsing
Australian film "Mary meets Mohammad" to be screened at the 9th UNHCR Refugee Film Festival
18-19 October 2014
http://unhcr.refugeefilm.org/2014/title-e/2014/08/2014k.php
Otemon Gakuin University and ASAJ Co-host Symposium
The Japanese-Australian migrant community in Broome, WA
18 October 2014
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Australian musician Oren Ambarchi to perform at CCA Sound Workshop Live in Kitakyushu
23 October 2014
http://www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp/shimin/02101072.html
Memorial Exhibition: Australian based Printmaker Jörg Schmeisser 1942-2012 “Bilder Der Reise : A man, who likes to draw”
25 October – 16 November 2014
For more
Kristin McCourtie, Manager and Director, Design Foundation representing Design Matters: Melbourne International Design Week at World Design Week Summit
29 October 2014
http://www.tdwa.com/2014/join/en_worlddesignweek_summit.html
Auto Da Fe Theatre and Shinjuku Ryozanpaku collaboratively present "Everyman & the Pole Dancers"
30 Oct -2 Nov 2014
Auto Da Fe Theatre website
International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan
28 October – 9 November 2014 , Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
http://www.city.kyoto.jp/bunshi/kmma/
29 November – 7 December 2014, Fukuyama Museum of Art
http://www.city.fukuyama.hiroshima.jp/site/fukuyama-museum/
Flier
Publication of "The Koala's Christmas" by Melbourne based Tetsuta Watanabe and Chaco Kato
20 October 2014-
November
Autumn Gathering in Australia House 2014
1-2 November 2014
Experience the beautiful sights and wonderful flavours of Echigo Tsumari, in this late Autumn home stay and sports festival weekend gathering
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©2013 SOAG Holdings Pty Ltd, Screen Australia, ScreenWest Inc. and Screen NSW
Theatrical release of Australian film “Guns & Gold” (Original title:"Son of a Gun")
1 November 2014-
http://guns-gold.jp/
Australia cabaret starlet performs at Tokyo Fringe Festival 1 and 2 November 2014
1-2 November 2014
www.tokyofringefestival.com
Australian illustrators/graphic designers Caroline Meathrel-Mack and Caroline McCurdy to exhibit at Design Festa vol.40
8-9 November 2014
http://www.designfesta.com/exhibitors/introduction/en/detail.php?id=XaUjD9nlqyNKKBHx9yS8gQ%3D%3D
Australian Embassy to be featured in BS Fuji's program "A Table of Embassy"
16 November 2014 19:00-20:55
For more
Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music's Drama Course trial presentation "Dreamers" from "Stolen" and "The Sapphires"
22-23 November 2014
http://www.toho.ac.jp/college/event_information/drama_senkoukashienkai_nov/index.html
Australian artist Katie Jayne Britchford's Artist-in-Residence and exhibition at Iwase Rock Museum
16-30 November 2014
http://son4771s.tsukuba.ch//
Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan, LADE: Project Another Country, 2014, Boats, cardboard and other materials
Solo exhibition of Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan "Habitations: Another Country" at Art Front Gallery
28 November-23 December 2014
http://artfrontgallery.com/exhibition/archive/2014_11/1336.html
December
Australia-based artist Chris Bennie's Artist-in-Residence and Open Studio at Youkobo Art Space
12-14 December 2014
https://www.facebook.com/events/313428735517359/
Australian Japanese Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza, DasSHOKU SHAKE! in touring Tokyo, Osaka and Minamisanriku
14-24 December 2014
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14-17 December 2014 - Workshops in Minami Sanriku primary schools
19(Fri) Dec 2014 at Saravah Tokyo
23(Tue) Dec 2014 at Nishi Tenman LiveHouse GANZ toi toi toi
24(Wed) Dec 2014 at Livehouse Osaka KANDYLION
Photo credit:
"Banksia serrata"
Engraving
Engraved after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson
©Alecto Historical Editions Ltd /
The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London
Bunkamura’s 25th Anniversary "Captain Cook's Voyage and Banks' Florilegium" exhibition
23 December 23 2014 - 1 March 2015
http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/museum/index.html
Daniel Keene's "Scissors, Paper, Rock" performances in Sendai
23-28 December 2014
Australia-Japan Co-production, "Finding 1984" to air in Japan (presented by Wildbear Entertainment and WOWOW)
27 December 2014
Release of CD “World Jazz Voyage” with two tracks by Cookin' On 3 Burners who successfully toured Tokyo, Iwate and Sendai in 2014.
December 2014
http://diskunion.net/jazz/ct/detail/1006437631
Masterpieces of Contemporary Australian Literature Series 3rd book 'The Slap' by Christos Tsiolkas Japanese translation to be published
25 December 2014 -
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