Inner Edge Drifting

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Exhibition Dates: 18 January to 12 February 2023

Closed Australia Day, Thursday 26 January 2023.

A group exhibition exploring the ‘third cultural space’ experienced by people who navigate multiple traditions, influences and values.

A Willoughby City Council curated group exhibition, Inner Edge Drifting explores the cultural space experienced by people living in Western cultures (and specifically Australia) who have Asian roots.

This third cultural space (often referred to within the experiences of Third Culture Kid) can be experienced by people whose upbringing is culturally different from their parents or where their upbringing has traversed across different geographic locations.

The exhibition examines the nuances of such experiences and the culture of navigating across two or more societies or traditions—which can arise from possessing singular migrant cultural roots, or mixed cultural roots. What grows out of cultural navigations is unique and expands on, and critiques the set parameters we have applied to cultural identities.

Those with such experiences may not identify with any established culture, but more with the notion of culture without edges and the fluidity required to undertake such navigations. Similarly, they may connect more with their own interpretation of an existing culture.

Artists: Casey Chen, Sai-Wai Foo, Hyun-Hee Lee, Karen Lee, Mylyn Nguyen, Mai Nguyen-Long, NC Qin, Zoe Wong, Wei Rong Wu and Tym Yee

Image: Mai Nguyen-Long, Warrior Cat with Poo Balls (detail from Warrior Cat + Doba), 2017-2023, unglazed and glazed clay

Room Sheet(PDF, 586KB)

Catalogue(PDF, 6MB)

Inner Edge Drifting 邊緣漂泊

邊緣漂泊(Inner Edge Drifting)畫展展覽: 維樂比藝術空間(Concourse Art Space) 展出四週的畫展,主題將探索著「第三文化」,每個作品都來自於不同文化背景但生活在西方社會的藝術家,他們的作品凸顯出生活周遭傳統與現代文化與價值的衝擊與融合。 

Join our exhibition language tours

Mandarin language tour

11am - 12pm, Saturday 11 February


Korean language tour

12pm - 1pm, Saturday 11 February


Cantonese language tour

2pm - 3pm, Sunday 12 February

The Fujifilm projector used in Inner Edge Drifting has been provided by Fujifilm Australia and ITI-Image Group. 

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Inner Edge Drifting is part of Chatswood Year of the Rabbit Festival, the North Shore’s premier Lunar New Year celebrations presented by Willoughby City Council.

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When

  • Wednesday, 18 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday, 19 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday, 20 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Saturday, 21 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Sunday, 22 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Wednesday, 25 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday, 27 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Saturday, 28 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Sunday, 29 January 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Wednesday, 01 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday, 02 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday, 03 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Saturday, 04 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Sunday, 05 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Wednesday, 08 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Thursday, 09 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM
  • Friday, 10 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Saturday, 11 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 08:00 PM
  • Sunday, 12 February 2023 | 11:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Location

Art Space on The Concourse, 409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, 2067, View Map

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