For the second year running, the University of South Australia is a Festival Partner for the OzAsia Festival. This partnership embodies the University’s commitment to celebrating cultural diversity and engagement.
Visit the University of South Australia’s website for the full listing of its involvement in the OzAsia Festival program. The OzAsia Festival will be held from 3 September to 20 September 2014.
University of South Australia’s OzAsia Festival Events:
OzAsia Festival Keynote lecture: The Biography of a Coin, co-presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
18 September 2014, 6.00pm, Adelaide Festival Centre
In May 1928 the Communist Party produced the first coin of their socialist revolution in the remote, bandit ridden region of Jinggangshan.
Framed by two revolutions: the Mexican revolution against Spanish rule, and the socialist revolution led by the Communist Party of China, this talk maps the journey of the Mexican silver dollar, or ‘Eagle coin,’ as it travelled from the mines of America to the remote hills of China.
Along the way, the coin became the dominant currency of southern and eastern China, Japan and northern Vietnam. It changed the way the Chinese thought about money, and arguably, the coin helped launch one of the earliest futures markets, and a Communist revolution.
Mooi Indie – Beautiful Indies, co-presented by the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
1 August – 3 October
A celebration of Indonesia’s contemporary art, which is closely linked to the recent history of its nation and influenced by the social, political and cultural factors that have affected the artists’ communities.
In-Habit: Project Another Country,co-presented bytheAnne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
1 August – 3 October
Filipino born artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan create a remarkably imaginative and interactive installation that uses processes of collecting and collaboration to express ideas of migration, family and memory.
