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What professional learning builds Asia capability?

Join art historian Alison Carroll in a series of 10 engaging videos as she demonstrates how 21st century Asian art came out of a century of national independence struggles, bolstered by emerging economies and global interaction.

These resources are aligned to the Australian Curriculum and are organised around two key inquiry questions:

  • is art discourse enhanced or diminished by the inclusion of these concepts?
  • how engaged in the contemporary political debate can, and should, art be?

NOTE: Due to license restrictions, A Journey Through Asian Art videos are only available to be viewed from within Australia, its territories and New Zealand

PZ Connect

PZ Connect is a collaboration between Harvard University’s Project Zero and Independent Schools of Victoria. The aim of the collaboration is to move beyond our typical (face-to-face) modes of outreach and professional development, and leverage the online environments to support teaching and learning. The project has three strands: Outreach, Development, and Festivals:

  • Outreach: PZ researchers are developing and facilitating various online activities to support teachers who seek to use Project Zero ideas in their classrooms
  • Development: PZ researchers are developing thinking routines and other classroom tools to help learners engage with complexity, do perspective-taking, and develop global competence
  • Festivals: researchers are exploring how community festivals that make visible student and/or teacher work can engage broader audiences with the learning happening in schools. 

Asialink Arts

Asialink Arts Exhibitions provide information on current and past exhibitions of contemporary Australian art and exchanges in Asia, including related exhibition programs which may be useful resources.

Asialink Arts Stories is a series of videos which document the powerful stories behind many of the Asialink Arts projects over the last 25 years.

Illustrations of practice

Watch episode one of Alison Carroll's video documentary "Unseen World"

Alison Carroll is in Brisbane, outside the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art. She is heading towards an exhibition by Cai Guo-qiang. Cai grew up in China, and he is a child of the Cultural Revolution. Carroll talks with Cai about the artistic ideas he began developing in the 20th century, and how they came from Maoism, and also from much older traditional ways of thinking.

In Seoul, South Korea, Carroll talks with curator Kim Hong-hee about how art from Asia is leading the way in the international scene in the 21st century, and how it absorbs ideas from the East and the West. To understand more about contemporary art scene Carroll says we need to step back into the 20thcentury, and beyond, and understand that different cultures look at the world differently.

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