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💦💦 When it rains it pours 💦💦 We are refreshing our approach and having our first open call since 2020. Stay tuned for our 2025 open call for residencies and mentorship programs.
Let’s sow some seeds together this spring & see them grow 🌱
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❀ new identity coming soon by @caesarxinyuan ❀
🌊Thank you for your ongoing support and recognition for Asia Pacific Arts Award - Innovation. 🏆 Thank you @creative.australia and the industry peers for their recognition. We are deeply honored to be recognized for our work at Hyphenated Projects.
Firstly, we would like to thank our community and our peers for trusting us. We can’t do anything without you. Even without this award, it’s been an incredible five years, where we have been accepted to be your local childless auntie and uncle and there’s no greater honor.
In what seems like an ongoing crisis now, we find small joys in continuing our support for artists. The biggest reward, for us, comes from interacting with younger, emerging Asian artists and realising we might have become the representation that they seek. Something we didn’t have when we were starting out. And we are proud about this work.
We are proud to be the change our younger selves were looking for. We are privileged, to be advocating for you, and for our younger selves.
Too many of you have come along on our journey and this is not an exclusive list of thank yous, but you have been there the whole time advocating with us and for us, for community, and this award is for you too 🎀🎀🎀 A special shout out to @pandy.a@liminalmag@truccc_@thebradspolding@scottheinrich@l___j___m___@barefootdreaming@arsepoetica@yazzkailomai for the loves.
💧please enjoy our new website💧
Thanks to our wonderful designer @caesarxinyuan who created our new logo with little hyphens, and helped us make a website that holds an archive of our work. With this new site, we have had the opportunity to re-contextualise our work through three different lens: nurture, present and support.
link in bio 🛼
We stand in solidarity with artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino, and we call for an immediate reinstatement of their participation at Australian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026.
Our Community has spoken in the last 24 hours, so this will be brief - We are, collectively, outraged and disappointed by this unacceptable attack on freedom of expression.
Khaled Sabsabi is a well respected, internationally renowned artist who is celebrated by his peers and community. He is a truth-teller and a supportive mentor to many.
Creative Australia’s decision is not only a result of the deeply polarising political climate and its detrimental effects on our arts and culture, it also undermines independence of arts and cultural production in Australia. This is, indisputably, censorship.
Khaled Sabsabi for Venice, or an empty pavilion.
Congratulations to @wenjuenn , winner of the 2025 Liminal x Hyphenated Projects Writing Fellowship!
The applications this year were exceptionally strong; as such, in addition to awarding our 2025 Fellowship, we are delighted to offer three highly commended applicants a week at the Hyphenated House to further develop their submitted projects. Congratulations to Panda Wong, Huyen Hac Helen Tran and Lucy Van.
🐍UPDATE: SOLD OUT: There is no waitlist but we will announce any additional tickets week beginning 3rd of Feb. 🐍
Second workshop is with Pandan Dreaming!
Join us during Biderap (Butterfly) Season to sink into Year of the Snake through plant meditation and zine making.
Participants will meet along the Kororoit Creek in Sunshine West where Pandan Dreaming will guide us through a meditation to sink our bodies into Year of the Snake. We’ll then go on a short bushwalk exploring the creek and its native wildflower garden. Participants will be guided to connect and carefully forage the local plants, which they’ll then take back to the Hyphenated House. These plants will be used as inspiration and materials for creating your own plant print. These prints will be used for Red Pocket Press’ forthcoming Snake zine and participants will be able to take a copy of their plant print home. We’ll conclude the workshop with a cleansing Vietnamese herbal steam, led by Pandan Dreaming.
Snacks will be provided.
Pandan Dreaming: Hiếu is a healing-centred facilitator, chè (sweet soup) enthusiast and portal maker. He started Pandan Dreaming as a living archive to re/member and embody ancestral practices of collective liberation together.
Sunday 9 Feb 2025
10am - 12.30pm
Hyphenated House 8 Armour Court, Sunshine West and Kororoit Creek (Exact location to be emailed)
Sliding scale: $20-$50
More accesibility info in ticketing link.
RSVP link in bio.
Sssseeeee you there!
🎀 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓟𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 2025 - part 2 of 2 🎀
We are excited to announce the following artists as part of our pilot mentorship program. A total of 11 artists have been selected by our mentors. Over the next four months, they will work with their selected mentors on specific projects and skills, with the optional to undertake a micro residency at Hyphenated Projects.
✿ Alice McCool @alicemccool and Ming-Zhu Hii @mingzhuhii will be mentored by Nikki Lam @curiousother
✿ Makeda Duong @makedaduong , Ronen Jafari @Mynamechef069 and Bonnie Huang @localbonbon will be mentored by Lara Chamas @lara_chamas_
🎀 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓟𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 2025 - part 1 of 2 🎀
We are excited to announce the following artists as part of our pilot mentorship program. A total of 11 artists have been selected by our mentors.
Over the next four months, they will work with their selected mentors on specific projects and skills, with the optional to undertake a micro residency at Hyphenated Projects.
✿ Gillian Kayrooz @gilliankayrooz and Reina Takeuchi @reina.brigette will be mentored by Leyla Stevens @leyla_stevens
✿ Aida Azin @aidapplebaum , Afifah Tasya Amaliah @afhtasya , Supina Bytol @supina_bytol , Sher Ali Hussaini @sher_ali.h will be mentored by Bianca Winataputri @biancawinata
We are excited to announce 🌿 2025 Sprout Artists: Chris Siu and Gabby Loo, via our latest open call.
✨Chris Siu (he/him) is a photographer based in Narrm whose work examines the nuanced dynamics within his surrounding social landscapes. Informed by his personal experiences and the sociopolitical shifts in his native Hong Kong, his practice explores themes of geopolitics, history, and identity, reflecting on the intersections of civil unrest, diasporic experiences, and marginalisation.
‘The residency will focus on advancing an ongoing project titled Then We Keep Living, a two-volume photographic narrative that explores Hong Kong’s 2019 democratic uprising, its unfolding social transformations, and the resulting global diaspora.‘ — @csiuuu
✨Gabby Loo (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, art technician and DJ from the unceded lands of Whadjuk Noongar boodjar. Gabby enjoys creating art that mashes up and remixes cultural memory, personal and relational. Their installations act as meeting spaces for the bonding and strengthening of queer Asian diaspora identities. Gabby’s favourite mediums include drawing, poetry writing, assemblages, drag and photography.
‘I seek to collaborate with Naarm LGBTQIA+ and allied folks of the Burmese diaspora, and strengthen our community bonds. I hope to host several ‘Burmese Babes’ creative experiences that facilitate solidarity spaces for sharing our family histories, artistic expression, ancestral enquiry and dreams for the future.’ —@gabxloo
Chris and Gabby will undertake a funded residency at Hyphenated Projects in 2025.
It’s a wrap! For the three of us, this year has been the start of our collective and learning alongside each other as we shape and build what it means to be artists in the west and gather alongside other artists and creatives. This year has shown us that the beauty of gathering and sharing stories and insights holds great influence and power and it is something we hope to keep doing in the coming year.
This has been a challenging year for many in this world with ongoing injustices and atrocities overseas and as well as here on stolen land and we are conscious of these as we proceed and plan our 2025 and the work we hope to do together.
We wish ease, comfort, strength and rest to everyone, and also a big thanks to all of the artists and creatives who gave us their time and thoughts. These images are from the end of year dinner that we hosted, offering thanks to the people we spoke to as part of our first project together. Thanks to Wyndham Council @wyndham_city for supporting us and also to @hyphenated_projects (Nikki and Phuong) for sharing their beautiful space with us and the artists tagged in the images plus Sam (@samtaylor__art ) who couldn’t be with us on the day.
Thank you everyone and see you in 2025❤️🙏🏾
#holdingtimeandspace #ny2025 #powerofgathering #communitymatters
Amal Zoe Jasmeet
🌻 We are excited to announce 𝓑𝓛𝓞𝓞𝓜𝓢 Residency — our new collaboration with Post Office Projects (POP) @pop_gallerystudios 🌻
BLOOMS offers an emerging artist of Asian diaspora based in South Australia the opportunity to develop a project between Naarm and Tarntanya in 2025.
Our inaugural receipt of BLOOMS is Shenshen Zheng. @shenshen.z
Graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 2024, Shenshen’s practice investigates the complex relationships we have with our natural environment through a range of mediums.
Shenshen will receive an artist residency at Hyphenated Projects in Naarm, where she will develop a new project for a solo exhibition at POP in Tarntanya in late 2025.
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Post Office Projects Gallery is supported by Arts South Australia through the Major Projects - Biennial grant. Post Office Projects is generously supported by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield
🌊 Our time across the ditch has been so beautiful. Thank you @aksatellites@incorrect_pin for your care and hospitality, and @artspace.aotearoa@robbiehandcock for hosting us in Tāmaki Makaurau.
We met so many wonderful artists, saw so much art, had many inspiring conversations and incredible pies. A cute bonus to have joined our pals at slow currents @liminalmag in Pōneke, attended @verb_wellington and saw some incredible birds.
We can’t wait to work towards more exchanges between Asian diaspora artists between our settler-colonial islands. Until next time and Tēnā koutou 🫶🏼
📸The better pics are from Julie Zhu
