'Since 1991 Asialink's Arts Residency Program has provided professional development opportunities for arts professionals working in and across artforms, in exchange for the sharing of skills, knowledge and networks with local host communities. Asialink Arts Residencies are innovative, flexible and supportive, and are grounded in personal and enduring relationships. The program promotes sustained cross-cultural dialogue by facilitating reciprocal residencies and trialing new models of engagement.'
(Source:http://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/residency_program )
Known as the Asialink Arts Exchanges Program since 2018.
Indexed selectively. Prior to 1996, most residencies were awarded to visual artists.
The Asialink Literature Residency Program began in 1997 and has selected writers for residencies in 11 countries including Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.
'The program has involved writers of fiction, poetry, history, essays, playwriting, screenplays, young adult fiction and travel [...] Hosts vary from Australian Studies Centres and University Literature departments to artists retreats, writers centres and publishers.'
(Source: Asialink website, http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/residencies/Litresintro.html)
'I’m still trying to process my Indian experience and my surprise at discovering that there was another place in the world where I belonged, that felt like home. It was a strange experience, as residencies are, because on the one hand I was a tourist in the brash, exaggerated landscape of what Mark Twain called the ‘most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds’ (Paine 1912:1013), and on the other I was isolated from the glare of that sun by my containment within the residency.' (Introduction)
