Richmond artist Amie Oliver will be a research participant in Moving Cultures: Intercultural Dialogues during July of 2009.
Moving Cultures: Intercultural Dialogues is made possible through Metasenta, Projects Currently working out of RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) with the support of founding benefactor The Po and Helen Chung Foundation.
Metasenta Founder and Director Dr Irene Barberis of the Western Team and Professor Isadora Jiang of the Eastern Team have designed "Moving Cultures" to be a multi-cultural, cross-disciplinary research and exhibition collective of people, place and processes situated in the ‘civic space’ of a moving train.
The project is devised through equal academic and organizational input from the Australian and Chinese contingent and is undertaken by invited researchers. Fellow researchers will include interdisciplinary artists, filmmakers, photographers, musicians, poets, writers,
linguists, and philosophers from China, Australia, Great Britain and the United States.
"Moving Cultures" raises critical questions about the desire for a Utopian future and the effect of globalizing processes. It also addresses the problematics of critiquing cultural processes while also being implicated by them via the very practices involved. The artwork and collaborative research that results from "Moving Cultures" will be exhibited at Gwangzhou University in China in late July.
The project will bring together diverse solutions, approaches and responses to the journey by creating an atmosphere of discovery and revelation. Oliver's participation in Moving Cultures was inspired by her experiences as an artist/educator/traveler. As an Associate Professor
at Longwood College Amie Oliver initiated and directed the Longwood College Art Workshop in Scotland program in Virginia during the early 1990's and has since participated in internationally diverse artist residencies in Vermont, Virginia, Paris and Germany.
Oliver's mixed media paintings and bookworks has been exhibited from Maine to Florida as well as in Germany, France, S. Korea and Great Britian. She is currently on the adjunct faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches painting at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. For more information on Oliver's participation in Moving Cultures: Intercultural Dialogues please visit
http://amieoliver.net or one of the sponsoring organizations' websites below.
www.metasenta.com.auDr Irene Barberis
Director and Founder Metasenta Projects
Co-Head Drawing
School of Art
RMIT University
Melbourne
Australia
Irene.barberis@rmit.edu.auMobile: 0433138058
