Hyphenated Spaces: Recap of the 2018 Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui
By Thomasin Sleigh
KERRY ANN LEE, YUK KING TAN and VERA MEY in conversation at the 2018 Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui,
The 2018 Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui (AAAH) unfurled energetically and inclusively across Wellington’s central business district throughout September. Art appeared in restaurants, galleries, and on hoardings; walking tours investigated the city; discussions, morning teas, zine workshops, and master classes were staged; blindfolded participants improvised experimental music; and interviews were broadcast from a renegade radio station. One of the concluding events of this expansive programme was a daylong symposium at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, where speakers from a variety of artistic disciplines discussed, celebrated and critiqued “diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa in the arts.”
