Sep
2011 20
2011 20
Editorials
From Lian Low – prose editor Food is essential to our survival, it is nourishing, nurturing and pleasurable, but it can also be a way in to our remembered cultural identities. There are a number of Asian-Australians who have rode the wave as food celebrities – Luke Nguyen, owner and chef of Sydney’s Red Lantern ...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Fear of a Brown Planet: fight the power with laughter
The first time I met Fear of a Brown Planet comic duo Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain, it was not at a post-show groupie hangout; it was at the very edge of the performance stage of an overcrowded Espy where we were all moshed in together to watch one of the legends of hip-hop – Public Enemy. ...
Jun
2010 20
2010 20
Interview with Owen Leong
Owen Leong’s solo exhibition Birthmark recently opened at Anna Pappas Gallery in Prahran, Melbourne. In Birthmark, twelve half-human, half-creature photographic portraits are displayed along the walls of the gallery. Their gazes resist an easy reading, their commonality their shared Asian-Australian identities and the Australian native moths...
Nov
2009 27
2009 27
Watch out for LOCA – they can incite a riot!
At the 2008 Melbourne and 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festivals, LOCA’s Ladies of Colour Cabaret show sold out every night they performed. Merge an Adelaide street magazine rated LOCA second in their “top ten most controversial, unexpected and weird moments” at the Adelaide Fringe. They came second only to Cunts – an exhibition of 140...
