Initiators 啟動者

ETAN PAVAVALUNG 伊誕・巴瓦瓦隆 Lead 領導

🇹🇼 藝術家伊誕・巴瓦瓦隆（Etan・Pavavalung）出生於臺灣屏東三地門鄉大社（達瓦蘭）部落，成長於部落公認的Pulima藝匠家族，浸淫於排灣傳統藝文表現形式的生活，也奠定了未來藝術創作的基因。除了寫詩、寫散文外，其亦精於影像詩意美學的紀錄片導演，也因長期紀錄、學習排灣族雙管口、鼻笛，文化部頒授其成為重要傳統表演藝術接班人，而藝術作品以創發的「紋砌刻畫」為其獨樹一幟的藝術表現形式。除了自身藝術發展外，近年擔任國際南島藝術三年展策展人及第十屆亞太藝術三年展協同策展人，是臺灣原住民當代藝術向外拓展的重要協調者之一。

🇬🇧 Artist Etan Pavavalung was born in the Dashe (Davalan) tribe of Sandimen Township, Pingtung, Taiwan. He grew up in a family of Pulima craftsmen recognized by the tribe, and was immersed in the traditional artistic expressions of Paiwan. The life of push also laid the genes for future artistic creation. In addition to writing poems and prose, Etan is also a documentary director who specializes in the poetic aesthetics of video. For his long-term recording and learning of the Paiwan people's double-blow mouth and nose flute, Etan was awarded by the Ministry of Culture to become an important successor of traditional performing arts, and art The "pattern carving" created by the artist is a unique form of artistic expression.

📍Davaran Tribe, Taiwan

GRACE GUO 郭悦 Lead 領導

🇹🇼 郭悦自2007年開始擔任「伊誕創藝視界」的藝術行政，參與藝術經理、紀錄片製作、無形文化資產推展、藝術策展、圖書編輯、「斜坡上的藝術村」等執行工作，而工作中也給自己要求運用數位媒體追蹤國際時事、流行、影視、建築、藝術等資訊，這個習慣變成她每天學習視覺美感與當代藝術思潮的一種方法。

🇬🇧 Grace has served as the art administrator of Etan Creative Vision Art Studio"since2007, participating in the execution of art managers, documentary production, intangible cultural assets exhibitions, art curation, book editing, and Kacalisian Art Village. Recently, she has served as the curator of Contemporary Art from Greater Sandimen (2020), Distances between us and the Future: An exhibition of Taiwanese Indigenous contemporary art, Between earth and sky: Indigenous contemporary art from Taiwan (2021), the manager of the Taiwan International Austronesian Art Triennial Preliminary Research (2023) and other projects, and is responsible for the planning and execution of the 2023 Kacalisian: People of the Slope permanent exhibition at Pingtung 1936 Tobacco Culture Base.

📍Davaran Tribe, Taiwan

DR JARROD JANSZ SIM 阿俊 PALI Instigator, Interpreter 煽動者、翻譯 (🇬🇧, 🇹🇼, 🇮🇩, 🇲🇾) 

🇬🇧 Jarrod Jansz Sim is of Chinese, Eurasian, and Iban descent. Working between Indigenous Taiwan and Borneo, his research maintains an ongoing interest in Austronesian sonic worlds, bridging together applied ethnomusicology, sensory ethnography, and environmental humanities. 

🇮🇩 Antropolog dan etnomusikolog yang bekerja di antara masyarakat Pribumi Taiwan dan Borneo, penelitiannya mempertahankan minat berkelanjutan terhadap dunia sonik Austronesia, menjembatani etnomusikologi terapan, etnografi sensori, dan humaniora lingkungan. Ia berfokus pada promosi tradisi musik yang terancam punah dan langka di seluruh dunia Austronesia. Ia berketurunan Tionghoa, Serani, dan Iban.

📍Southeast Asia

DR CHLOE HO Webmaster, Producer, Interpreter 網頁管理、製作人、翻譯 (🇬🇧, 🇹🇼)

🇬🇧 I am a curator, cultural producer, and art historian. My research is in twentieth to twenty-first century art and aims to produce knowledge on lesser-known art cultures, and correct the historical record where it has been found to be lacking. 

🇹🇼 策展人、文化製作人和藝術史學家。个人研究专注是二十到二十一世紀当代藝術。我希望能旨在產生關於鮮為人知的藝術文化的知識，並糾正歷史記錄的缺失。

🌐https://www.chloeho.space/

📍Naarm Melbourne, Australia 

JENDELA IDE Lead (Indonesia) 領導（印尼）

🇮🇩 Berorientasi pada transformasi nilai, melalui media seni budaya, dengan kegiatan workshop, pelatihan, literasi, pertemuan budaya, kampanye positif, relawan muda, pameran & pertunjukan, dokumentasi dengan subyek masyarakat: kaum muda, komunitas, publik luas.

🇬🇧 Jendela Ide Program orientation is based on value transformation through art and culture media, with workshops, training, literacy, cultural meetings, positive campaigns, young volunteers, exhibitions & performances, documentation with the subject being society: young people, communities and the wider public.

🌐https://www.jendelaide.org/

📍Indonesia

DR PETRA T. BUERGELT Lead (Yolngu and Tiwi Island) 領導（雍古族和提維島民）

🇬🇧 Dr Petra Buergelt is an A/Prof at University of Canberra, an award winning interdisciplinary social scientist and Sylff Fellow.

Petra serves on the Executive Committees of the Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative ('UC CIRI)' and International Transformative Learning Association. Using qualitative and Indigenist research, she is working at the nexus of disaster risk reduction and recovery, Indigenous/ancient worldviews-knowledges-practices and transformation to contribute to creating a paradigm shift from Western to ancient/Indigenous paradigms.

Petra has been co-leading research with Indigenous communities in Australia and Taiwan since 2014. She is also a CI on a NHMRC MRFF bushfire project.

📍Canberra, Australia

ZARA STANHOPE Lead (Aotearoa New Zealand) 領導（紐西蘭）

🇬🇧 As a curator practising within institutions and independently Zara Stanhope focuses on expanding engagement with contemporary art across the Global South. Dr Stanhope is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Design at AUT University, Auckland. She holds a PhD from the School of Art and Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra and has curated more than 50 exhibitions including New Zealand’s presence at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. She has worked in lead roles at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Heide Museum of Modern Art.

📍New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand

ART+AUSTRALIA 

🇬🇧 Published digitally, Art + Australia is a biannual open access art journal. Each issue orientates around a theme, inviting responses from emerging and established researchers, academics and artists. Accompanied by the Art + Australia Study Centre, we are forum for current, critical and cutting-edge discourse and research about contemporary art and its broader contexts.  

In 2015, Art + Australia was donated to the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne by then publisher and editor Eleanora Triguboff as a gift of the ARTAND Foundation.  

🌐https://www.artandaustralia.com

📍Naarm Melbourne, Australia

JULIANA APING

🇬🇧 I am an experienced project curator specializing in cultural and community-based initiatives and founder of the North Borneo Rainforest Festival, a community-driven event that highlights cultural heritage and empowers local voices. I contribute to diverse initiatives including the Cultural Showcase for Taiwan Indigenous representatives, mentorship programs for the Sabah Art Festival, and apprenticeship training under JKKNS. I also lead Pertubuhan Kolektif Seni Budaya Sabah. I foster cultural awareness and collaboration while proudly bringing my heritage as a member of the Kuijau of Keningau and Tanggara tribes of Membakut into every project I lead.

📍Sabah, Borneo island