'Diversity Arts Australia developed I Am Not A Virus, an artist-led initiative to confront xenophobia and racism through creativity. Making art and sharing stories are powerful ways to engage people in these discussions and provide counter-narratives. Sixty eight Asian-identifying creatives from all States and Territories in Australia have been commissioned to create new works in development, across a range of practice areas including visual arts, writing, poetry, performance, screen, audio-visual, music, comedy, and more. This edition of Peril features 10 of these works. For more information on the initiative visit the I Am Not A Virus website.'
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'Pull on your mask and travel through the streets of iconic, feminist Melbourne under the guidance of some of its most passionate writers, musicians and poets. Peril Magazine and the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre have especially commissioned writers including Claire G. Coleman, Sista Zai Zanda, Aseel Tayah, Emily Soon and Darlene Silva Soberano to generate feminist soundtracks that use the lens of the past to imagine a journey together into this uncertain present.' (Publication abstract)
'Our time of crisis and isolation brought about by Covid-19 has shed light on the importance of artists in our society. Art can bring people closer together: inspiring, soothing, illuminating. Responding to themes of recovery and resilience as a result of the pandemic, The Noteworthy Project commissioned Sydney writers, musicians, illustrators, voice actors and a podcast producer to create new and diverse creative work.' (Publication summary)
'The 7th Asian Australian Identities biennial conference Genealogies of Identity Politics, held at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne, 7-8 November 2019, marked the 20th vibrant year of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, acronymically known as AASRN. Even as we celebrated and commemorated two decades of camaraderie, catch-ups, collaborations, community activism and collegial support, we also took the opportunity to reflect, reminisce and ruminate over the changing profiles, positions and perspectives of, on, and by, Asian Australian identities. Given the rich chronicles and conversations unfolding at the conference, our task was accompanied by anticipating and forecasting what Asian Australia might look like in the future and what its animating preoccupations may be.' (Mridula Nath Chakraborty and Anoma Pieris , Editorial introduction)
'Deep Listening: A showcase presented in partnership with Queensland Poetry Festival, featuring a clutch of QPF 2019’s most exciting festival artists.'
'History Repeats considers, as many have considered before us, the past as prologue. We want you to look back at Australia’s history and explore our Asian migrants, workers, travellers, visitors and intruders and tell us what might have been?' (Introduction)
'Taking on and breaking open the idea of racialised masculinity in one short edition is almost impossible. And, yet, bringing this edition together feels like nothing less than a rare privilege: ‘right now / it all comes down / to being unprepared for what takes root /’ (Chris Tse, ‘Pedestal Triptych’). Thank you to the many writers, thinkers and creatives who sent their responses to our Man Up edition, which will be coming to you over the next month.' (Editorial introduction)
'We are delighted to collaborate once again with Queensland Poetry Festival to present in part this special poetry edition, ‘I Can’t Speak to You’. This year’s theme at QPF, ‘Distant Voices’, asks us to consider how we connect to ourselves and to others when language dissolves, is disappeared.' (Editorial)