Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (Part 1)

15 Apr — 15 May 2021

Jayanto Tan, No Friends But The Ghosts (Ceng Beng), 2021, earthenware clay and embroidery on found fabrics. Photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, courtesy the artist.

Jayanto Tan, No Friends But The Ghosts (Ceng Beng), 2021, earthenware clay and embroidery on found fabrics. Photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, courtesy the artist.

Acute Actions: Responses to I Am Not A Virus presents the work of twelve artists commissioned through Diversity Arts Australia’s I Am Not A Virus initiative. This joint exhibition selection with partner 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art represents a range of artistic practices and conceptual reflections; these include acts of processing and healing from the trauma of racial prejudice experienced by Asian people. Through ceramics, photography, performance, music, craft, and storytelling, these artists have wrestled with racial prejudice and reframed multiculturalism to reflect this new lived experience.

With our partner 4A, as part of the Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not a Virus exhibition. this exhibit showcases the works of Sophia Cai, Sai-Wai Foo, Joe Lui, Deborah Ong, Andrea Srisurapon, Amy Zhang and MaggZ

Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (Part One) is now open at 4A @Darlinghurst
Thursday 15 April  — Saturday 15 May 2021
Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (installation view), 2021, 4A @ 101-111 William Street, Sydney. Sophia Cai, Safety Yellow Woman, 2021. Photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, courtesy the artist.

 

Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (installation view), 2021, 4A @ 101-111 William Street, Sydney. Andrea Srisurapon, Covid Clean, 2021.Photo: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, courtesy the artist.
Acute Actions sneak peak
Montage images: Various artworks and documentation images by Sophia Cai, Sai-Wai Foo, Jin Hien Lau, Nathan Liow, Zachary Lopez, Joe Lui & Deborah Ong, Andrea Srisurapon, Sweet and Sour Group, Jayanto Tan, Amy Zhang & MaggZ. All images courtesy the artists.

I Am Not A Virus website

An artist-led project to confront xenophobia and racism

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Exhibition Roomsheet

Read the Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus (Part One) Roomsheet, which includes artist bios. Courtesy of 4A.

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4A Website

Read more about Acute Actions: Responses to I Am Not a Virus (Part 2) and the individual works on the 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art website.

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