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| New York
Asian Cultural Council
6 West 48th Street
12th Floor
New York, New York 10036
USA
Tel: 212-843-0403
Fax: 212-843-0343
E-mail: acc@accny.org
Hong Kong
Asian Cultural Council
Hong Kong Arts Centre
2 Harbour Road, Room 702
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2895-0407
Fax: (852) 2576-7206
E-mail: acc@acc.org.hk
Tokyo
Asian Cultural Council
1-16-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tokyo, Japan 104-0061
Tel: (81) 3-3535-0287
Fax: (81) 3-3535-5565
E-mail: acc@accjpn.org
Taipei
Asian Cultural Council
303 Chung-Hsiao E. Road Sec. 4, Fl 10-2 Taipei, Taiwan 106 Tel: (886) 2-8771-8836Fax: (886) 2-8771-8844E-mail: acctw@acctf.com Manila
Representative:
Ms. Teresa Rances
E-mail: teresa.rances@gmail.com ACC Newsletter Editor: Manager,Communications Asian Cultural Council 6 West 48th Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: 212-843-0403 |
| | | Dear omss,
The Asian Cultural Council's work in promoting cultural exchange and dialogue through the universal language of the arts is as relevant today as it was when John D. Rockefeller 3rd founded the ACC. With the advancements in communication and travel, exchanges between countries and cultures have only increased our interconnectedness. The possibilities for artistic collaboration between America and Asia, and also among Asian countries will grow. There is a wider platform for cultural exchange and dialogue as well as opportunities for a deeper appreciation of the diversity in Asian cultures as well as the similarities shared by the 21 Asian countries we have worked with.
After co-chairing the Friends Committee for three years, I have joined the ACC Hong Kong as Director of External Relations. It is is a privilege to work with so many talented and passionate artists and people in the arts from so many different parts of the world. It is also an honor to continue to be a part of the ACC Hong Kong legacy my father Kenneth Fung started in Hong Kong 23 years ago which was made possible through his friendship with David Rockefeller Jr. in their school days. Through the ACC I have come to learn from business, arts and cultural leaders, and artists. The work at ACC brings new challenges to the team that stretches our creativity to help make a difference in an artists life. Witnessing the ripple effect and benefits these artists bring to their work and society after an ACC experience is what motivates me each day.
Enjoy our last newsletter of 2010. See how busy we've been and enjoy seeing what are grantees are up to!
Best wishes,
Marissa Fung Shaw
ACC/Hong Kong
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ACC HONG KONG November 9, 2010
On November 9, 2010, ACC HK held its Annual Awards Ceremony in their new office in the Hong Kong Arts Centre. The evening's production, performances and catering was generously sponsored by ACC Trustee Hans Michael Jebsen. The Friend's Committee sponsored the event graphics, program and newsletter. ACC Trustee Kenneth Fung sponsored the filming of the event and grantee interviews. William Flanz and Janet Nathanail sponsored ACC Hong Kong's new website which will be complete in March 2011. And check ACC Hong Kong out on Facebook  ! See what ACC Hong Kong is all about on YouTube.
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ACC MANILA
Save the Date: February 3-5, 2011, ACC Manila Auction We are in the midst of organizing the ACC Arts Auction and Exhibit, which will be on February 3-5, 2011 at the Finale Art File in Pasong Tamo, Makati City. Stay tuned for more information on the auction! This will be a fundraiser which will benefit the Philippines Fellowship Program. The ACC and the ACC Philippines Foundation established the Philippine Fellowship Program in 2000 to raise funds and offer more opportunities for artists, scholars, and cultural workers to undertake study, research, observation, and creative work in the United States or within Asia. Since 2000, this program has provided grants to over 50 Filipino artists and we hope to continue this mission to enable more artists and scholars to receive grants each year. If you would like more information on this exciting event, please contact Teresa Rances at Teresa.Rances@gmail.com. ACC TAIPEI October 11, 2010 ACC Taiwan and the Taiwan Puppet Theatre Company presented A Night at the Opera. The event was held at the Industrial Bank ofTaiwan and was well attended. ACC TOKYO November 14, 2010
ACC Trustee Isaac Shapiro attends his daughter Natasha Shapiro's exhibition "Inner Landscapes and Flower Portraits"
November 14 - 21, 2010 at Gallery CRANE  ACC Tokyo Program Officer Ritsu Yoshino with Trustee Isaac Shapiro attends his daughter Natasha Shapiro at her opening of Inner Landscapes and Flower Portraits in Tokyo ACC NEW YORK
September 22, 2010
The Asian Cultural held a grantee gathering in our New York office with a Moon Festival theme. All local grantees mingled and networked with each other after giving presentation of their work.
ACC grantee Chaw Ei Thein (grantee 2009-2010) giving presentation at ACC offices
ACC Trustee Hope Aldrich hosted a presentation and reception at Cai Guo-Qiang's studio in New York.  Cai Guo Qiang (grantee 1995) with Yumiko Honda (left) and Noriko Morita (right) November 15, 2010 The ACC's Executive Director, Jennifer P. Goodale, participated as a mentor at the ArtTable's Career Roundtable at FIT in New York. Ms. Goodale hosted a discussion about non-profit organizations. November 18, 2010 The ACC and the Consul General of Japan in New York collaborated on a presentation of Japanaese washi at Ambassador Shinishi Nishimiya's residence. Elise Thoron (grantee 2008 & 2010); Karen Kandel (grantee 2006); Kyoko Ibe; Mrs. Nishimiya; Ambassador Nishimiya; Margaret Cogswell; Miho Walsh and Mr. Yasuhisa Kawamura November 22, 2010 The ACC held their fall board meeting at the Pocantico Conference Center.
 ACC Board of Trustees at Pocantico Conference Center |
| Grantee News:
China: Artist Sandra Eula Lee (grantee 2009) Holds Solo Exhibition in Xiamen December 10-25, 2010 Chinese European Art Center Xiamen University Art College Xiamen, China Opening: Friday,December 10, 5 PM http://www.ccac99.com/ Sandra Eula Lee with her installation piece |
Hong Kong: Curator Stella Fong (grantee 2007) and Artist Ivy Ma (grantee 2007) Participate in Curatorial Experiment
November 6 - December 5, 2010 wrongplace L4-01, JCCAC Shek Kip Mei, Hong Kong  Led by ACC grantee Stella Fong and Janet Chan, this curatorial experiment is approaching its fourth and final stage. This final experiment juxtaposes 6 artists, including ACC grantee Ivy Ma, in a "cumulative exhibition' over the period of 6 weeks. The artists are connected through a set of rules that are independently extablished and passed on to the next artist in the following week to inform their new additions to the exhibition. |
| Hong Kong: Artist Chu Hing Wa (grantee 1993) Exhibits at University Museum and Art Gallery November 12, 2010-January 16, 2011 6 PM Opening
The University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong 90 Bonham Road  Take a look at Hong Kong through the unique vision of will be officiated by fellow ACC grantee Professor Wucius Wong (grantee 1971) and Mr. David Pong Chun Yee of our ACC Hong Kong Friends' Committee. ACC grantee Chu Hing Wah. The opening ceremony |
Japan: Musician Yumiko Tanaka (grantee 2006) Has Multidisciplinary Performance at Asahi Art Square, Tokyo
December 17, 2010 Asahi Art Square Tokyo |
Japan: Ismael de Anda III (grantee 2010) Lectured at Tokyo University of the Arts October 22, 2010
Tokyo University of the Arts
Ismael de Anda's lecture was part of a class of Professor O Jun for oil painting major students. Ismael de Anda talked about his art as well as his new piece created at Youkobo Artspace (the artist in residence where Ismael was staying) for the Geidai's newly started project "GTS Sightseeing Project" exhibition. |
Japan: Tatsuo Miyajima (grantee 1990) Exhibits in Tokyo November 12 - December 22, 2010 SCAI THE BATHHOUSE Kashiwayu-Ato, 6-1-23 Yanaka, Taito-ku Tokyo Tel : +81-(0)3-3821-1144 Tatsuo Miyajima's Exhibition Piece Warp Time with Warp Self Tatsuo Miyajima is a contemporary artist highly acclaimed internationally for his distinctive works utilizing digital counters made from light-emitting diodes (LEDs). His new world view is in line with the three basic concepts that Miyajima has put forth from the beginning-"Keep Changing," "Connect with Everything," and "Continue Forever"-and can be seen as a further development of that world.
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Japan: Artist Yuki Kimura (2002 grantee) Exhibits at Izu Photo Museum
September 5, 2010 - January 11, 2011
Yuki Kimura "Untitled" Izu Photo Museum, Shizuoka 347-1 Higashino Clematis no Oka Nagaizumi-cho, Shizuoka 411-0931 |
Japan: Performing Artist Min Tanaka (grantee 2004) Performs with the Julio Estrada Ansamble
December 21-23, 2010 Spiral Hall, Tokyo Min Tanaka in Mexico Contemporary Opera: Julio Estrada Ansamble "Murmullos del Paramo" |
Japan: Shirotama Hitsujiya (grantee 2000 and 2008); Kota Yamazaki (grantee 1997); Mika Kurosawa (grantee 1982); Daisuke Muto (grantee 2005) and Goki Yomota (grantee 1986) Participate in the Kazuo Ohno Festival 2010
Kazuo Ohno Festival 2010
November 19 - December 12, 2010 BankART Studio NYK Series For dates and locations, please see the website: |
Philippines: Artist Mideo Cruz (grantee 2008) Exhibits at the Gallerie Anna
December 1-15, 2010
HOMAGE TO THE END OF THE EQUINOX
Latest Paintings by Mideo M Cruz
Gallerie Anna, 4th Floor, SM Megamall A, Mandaluyong City Homage to the End of the Equinox |
| Taiwan: Theater Specialist Yu-Chia Chang (grantee 2009) Featured in ESP-I Performing Arts Group Performance
ESP-I Performing Arts Group Was Museum of Love December 2010
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| Taiwan: Dancer Hsiu-Hsan Wang (grantee 2010) Will be a Featured Dancer National Theater Concert Hall
Click on website for more details. |
| US: Distinguished Scholar Samina Quraeshi Receives the 2010 JDR 3rd Award The JDR 3rd Award was established in 1986 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the international understanding and appreciation of Asian art forms. The ACC has received hundreds of nominations for this award. Ms. Quraeshi's extraordinary work in the service of increasing understanding and appreciation of the diversity of the cultures of Pakistan is of utmost importance at this juncture in history. Her current project, Voices from the Shadows: Women in Pakistan is a critically imortant new media initiative exploring contemporary Pakistan through the perspective of Pakistani women. (l-r) ACC Trustee Hope Aldrich and ACC President Richard Lanier congratulate Samina Quraeshi |
U.S.: ACC Trustees Josie Natori, Curt Greer and Pam Kohlberg Hosted Dinner and Lecture by Dr. Patrick Flores (grantee 2009) at Tyler Rollins Fine Art Gallery in New York Patrick Flores at a Dinner at Tyler Rollins Fine Art Gallery | On September 20, 2010, Dr. Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies & Curator of Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, was a special guest lecturer at a dinner at the Tyler Rollins Gallery in New York. |
U.S.: Ismael de Anda (grantee 2010) and Nancy Buchanan Participate in a Group Show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California
In one of NewTown's most ambitious gallery shows, eleven digital natives and media pioneers appropriate the ever-present tools of media into curiously accessible experimental art forms. Convergences integrates media with sculpture and installation in a cumulatively immersive experience, a multi-station journey through a labyrinth of experiences, interactions, aesthetics and technologies, from garage pillaged elegance to experimental circuitry, guaranteed to stimulate eyes, ears and imaginations. Featuring works by: Nancy Buchanan and Ismael De Anda, Claudia Bucher, Robert Ladislas Derr, Heidi Kumao, Katja Loher, Lisa Mann, Ann Oren, Steve Shoffner, Rachel Siegel, Trixy Sweetvittles, and Laura Yilmaz.  | | Convergences: New Sculptural Media |
September 12, 2010 to January 9, 2011
Convergences: New Sculptural Media
Armory Center for the Arts, Mezzanine Gallery
145 N. Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, California
Presented by NewTown
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U.S.: Lyota Yagi (grantee 2009) Participates in Exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University is presenting a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the culture of vinyl records through 50 years of contemporary art. The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl features work by 41 artists from around the world, from the 1960s to present, who use vinyl records as subject or medium. Lyota Yagi, "Vinyl (Clair de Lune + Moon River)", 2005-09. DVD, 9:06 minute loop. Courtesy of the artist and Mujin-to Production Co., Ltd., Tokyo. Photo by Kazuo Fukunaga. | September 2, 2010-February 6, 2011 The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl 2001 Campus Drive Durham, North Carolina (919) 684-5135 |
U.S.: Scholar Claire Conceison (grantee 2008, 2001, 1995) Lectures at the Renwen Society at the China Institute
December 4, 2010
2:30-4:30 PM The China Institute 125 East 65th Street
New York, NY
The Renwen Society at China Institute presents a lecture by Professor Claire Conceison of Duke University on the extraordinary life and legacy of Ying Ruocheng on Saturday, December 4, 2010. Claire Conceison collaborated with Ying Ruocheng on his autobiography until his death in 2003, and completed the project for him afterwards. The result is their book Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform. A book signing will follow the talk. |
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