Happy New Year - Join us!

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17 December 2021—23 January 2022 Happy New Year! Join us to celebrate the opening of our second and third exhibits for Silent Dialogue featuring the works of 匡再 / Kuang Zai, 何佩佩 / Pei Pei He, 珍妮喆张 / Jenny Zhe Chang, Fu Hong / 傅红, Guan Wei / 关伟, Ouyang Yu / 欧阳昱 and Echo Cai / 子轩 together with Shen Zhimin / 沈志敏 and NiNi / 昵昵.  Date & Time: Exhibit 2 - Thursday 13-16 January 2022  Exhibit 3 - Thursday 20-23 January 2022  Access: Thursday—1:00-8:00PM Friday—Sunday 9:00AM-5:00PM. Timed, free ticketed attendance. Register below to help us work within COVID-19 gathering limits.  Location: Missing Persons, Room 11–12, Level 4, Nicholas Building, Swanston Street, Melbourne & Virtual. COVID SAFE PLAN REQUIREMENTS → We warmly invite you to explore the exhibits with us. Due to the evolving COVID-19 circumstances, our opening events have been cancelled to protect vulnerable people in our communities. However, we will remain open late for visits on the days we open (13/1 and 20/1) when we will also do a little pop-up shop. During the March-May period, we will conduct a talk event with our artists. This session will explore the exhibition retrospectively alongside the release of a film and an extended virtual exhibit. Today, we're also thrilled to release four more artist viewing rooms featuring long-form interviews with our exhibiting artists. In the coming days, we will also release a series of special readings into our online viewing room by the contributors to our Silent Dialogue book.  We hope the year ahead brings much happiness, good food, health and joyfulness for you and yours! Stay well. X   RSVP FOR YOUR FREE TICKET→ EXHIBIT 2 RSVP FOR YOUR FREE TICKET→ EXHIBIT 3 Fu Hong will present a new series of work inspired by the Shan Hai Jing 2021, the ancient Chinese text. Presented online will also be his monumental painting Re-birth 2019. The exhibit continues the artist's search into the idea of the transformation in art and self. VIEWING ROOM → Guan Wei will present The Metamorphosis / 变形记 2020. Presented in the conversation online will also be his monumental self-portrait Plastic surgery – A portrait of an immigrant artist 2015, the exhibit continues the artist’s search into the theme of self-identity and ideas of transformation, re-birth and belonging. VIEWING ROOM → Ouyang Yu will present Three Firsts 2021 his book installation which explores the process of self-destruction, transformation and renewal at the heart of the creative process and the migratory experience. VIEWING ROOM → Together with collaborators Shen Zhimin / 沈志敏 and NiNi / 昵昵, Echo Cai / 子轩 will present Retracing The Great Walk / 再现淘金路 2020, a moving image work which retraces the journey Chinese immigrant workers were forced to walk from Robe in South Australia to the Victorian goldfields during the gold rush. VIEWING ROOM → At our shop, we will be selling our SD books and totes to try to help cover some of the additional costs we have incurred due to COVID-19 interruptions. If you would like to purchase one, head to the shop below or come along and see us!  SHOP → ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We respectfully acknowledge the Sovereign Custodians of the land and waters upon which we live and work, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. Our contributors come from far and wide, so we extend this respect to all First Peoples. Exhibition Partners and Supporters Copyright © 2020 correspondences (ABN 41921936177) and the artists IMAGE CREDITS (1) Logo cover design for the exhibition book copyright Carolyn Ang and correspondences.  (2) Photograph of descendant Bill. Echo Cai 子轩 with Shen Zhimin 沈志敏 & Ni Ni 昵昵 Retracing The Great Walk《再现淘金路》2020-21 installation, size varies © Echo Cai Want to change how you receive emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.