Connections Through Culture UK-Southeast Asia Online Collaboration Grantees, 2021-2022:
We award 37 grant project teams (inclusive of six alumni grants) this year.
Indonesia
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Ignatius Susiadi Wibowo on behalf of Labtanya (South Jakarta) | Deveron Projects (Huntly, North East, Scotland) | Our Commons: Food Resources (English) or Harta Kampung Kota Kita (Bahasa Indonesia) |
| Joel Cahen of Newtoy Ltd (Chilham) | Robby Ocktavian of Muarasuara (Samarinda) | Resonansi: Workshop and collaborations between sound art practitioners and audiences in Indonesia and in the UK |
| Tesla Manaf Effendi, Kuntari (Bandung) – Alumni Grant | Graham Daniels of Addictive TV (London) | Digital release & online launch event. Artists Kuntari and Addictive TV join forces to release their collaborative project Pararatronic. |
| Mohamad Apie Dhelpilia Suhariyanto and Titis Embun Ayu Winasis on behalf of Pustaka Pias (Bandung) | Maisy Summer of Small Fry Collective (Manchester) | IDENTICAL: Artbook of Minority Communities |
| WOW Foundation (Represented by Laura White, London) | Voice of Baceprot (West Jakarta) | WOW’s Digital Artist in Residence - Voice of Baceprot |
| Zunifah, Jalan Gembira (Yogyakarta) | Fiona Cullinan of Walkspace (Birmingham) | Parallel Walking: Between Here and There, Between the Seen and the Unseen |
Malaysia
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Eleena Jamil (Cyberjaya) | Dr. Stephen Knott (London) | About Making: Cross-discipline exploration of different aspects of ‘making’ in art and architecture, |
| Eliza Collin (Lostwithiel) – Alumni Grant | Wendy Teo of Borneo Laboratory (Kuching) | Narratives of Soil: Phase Two: Exploration with practitioners and collaborators established from the first CTC project |
| Abhirami Arumbakkam (Maidenhead) | Sumitra Selvaraj and Dhinesha Karthigesu (Petaling Jaya) | Sarees and Secrets: Series of dialogues between 3 multi-generational and multi-disciplinary artists connected by their common love of the saree |
| Suzanne Lee with Francesca Beard (London) | Priya Kulasagaran (Petaling Jaya) | Safe/Selamat online programme of action research, creative conversation, and exchange |
| Joanne Loo Yingjia (Kuala Lumpur) | Ummi Kalthum Junid (Norwich) | Trash <––> Treasure art residency programme of UK and Malaysia artists |
| Anthony Alexander Chong Vee Yee (Selangor) | Shane Gilchrist (Belfast) | Empowering Deaf Women in Malaysia through Sign Poetry: Training of d/Deaf women from across the Straits on poetry in English and Malaysian Sign Language |
| Kenny Ooi Chia Fu of The Rondo Productions (Penang) | Orchestra of the Swan (Belfast) | Musical Encounter Training for young composers and musicians, between 18 to 26 years old |
Myanmar
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Aung Myat Htay (Yangon) | Grace Adam (Suffolk, East Anglia) | The Moments: A collaboration of ideas exchange UK-Myanmar Contemporary Art workshop programme |
| Aung Min (Yangon) | Tony Gammidge (Brighton) | Safe Room: Art for trauma healing sessions and collaborations |
| Andrew Derek Halliday of Phantom Limb Touring (Southampton) | Musica Htet (Yangon) | A Sound Journey to Freedom: Intersectionality of visual and sonic arts |
| Dominique Robert DIllabough-Lefebvre (Cambridge) | Saw Eh Do Wah (Mutraw, Karen State) | Lives across boundaries: Film development project about environmental change and Karen borderlands. |
| Daw Htar Nwe (Yangon) | Jack Jenkins Hill (London) | Memory in Exile: Mixed media online archive of oral histories of diasporic populations in Myanmar |
Philippines
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Hannah Morales of Emerging Islands (San Juan, La Union) | Mandy Barker (Leeds) | Plastic Passages: Mapping Our Way Towards Collective Sea Change |
| Joseph Wallace (East Sussex) | Jemina Legaspi (Bocaue, Bulacan) | Environmental Storytelling Through Stop Motion Animation: An exploration of recycled puppetry, sustainable practice, and poetic visions |
| Patricia Mendoza of Matic Hub (Cebu) – Alumni Grant | Gillian Easson on behalf of Creative Dundee (Dundee) | #MaterialsWiki - A Virtual Knowledge Sharing with Arts & Design Students |
| Jerome Dulin of North Luzon Cinema Guild, Inc. (Tuguegarao) | Noémie Mendelle of Scottish Documentary Institute (Edinburgh) | Lenses X Cultures (Lenses Cross Cultures): Creative Documentary Film La |
| Mac Andre Rubio Arboleda (Manila) | April Lin (London) | Toolkits for Counterparts |
Thailand
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Piyawat Louilarpprasert (Bangkok) – Alumni Grant | Scott Wilson (Birmingham) | Mutation of Sounds and Dialogues: Connection of Culture and Music Technology |
| Ratchanok Ketboonruand (Chiang Mai) | Carol Sinclair (Angus, Scotland) | Crafting Happiness: Craft and Making for Health and Wellbeing in Thailand and Scotland |
| Chumpon Apisuk (Nan Province) – Alumni Grant | Sinead O'Donnell (Belfast) | Living with Closer Distancing: Activities and activities at the Belfast International Festival of Performance Art (BIFPA), with workshop with students from Bangkok University, Chiangmai University, and Ulster University (Belfast). |
| Weave Artisan Society (Chiang Mai) | Naomi Mcintosh (Crathie, Scotland) | Cross Cultural Tapestry: large scale 3D tapestry annex over a period of 3 months. UK artist collaborating with Thailand local team of weavers. |
| B-Floor Theatre Bangkok (Bangkok) | Patrick J O'reilly of Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast) | Digital Playground: Exploring the theme of Climate Change and the Body for physical theatre collaboration exploring climate change effects on the body. |
| Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn (Bangkok) | Philippa Lovatt (St Andrews, Scotland) | Tracing the Anthropocene in Southeast Asian and British Artists' Cinema: Film Screenings and Discussion |
Vietnam
| Lead Grantee | Counterpart Grantee | Grant project working title or description |
| Bui Linh Ha (Hanoi) – Alumni Grant | Esther Swift (Edinburgh, Scotland) | Creative Hosting (to) Access Music: CHẠM (vn for 'touch') – Music and Well-Being project |
| Nhã Thuyên aka Đỗ Thị Thoan (Hanoi) | Alexandra Büchler of Literature Across Frontiers / Llenyddiaeth Ar Draws Ffiniau (Aberystwith, Wales) | Ù Ơ: Digital residency and poetic exchange between emerging Vietnamese and Welsh women poets and artists |
| Vu Thi Phuong Thao on behalf Blue H'mong textile community in Pa Co(Hanoi) | Lola Lely of WAX Atelier co-op (London) | Crafting without Borders: Cross-cultural arts exchange through online workshops between Blue H'mong craftswomen in Viet Nam and craftswomen at WAX Atelier Co-Op in London |
| Trang Trinh (Hanoi) | Caroline Sharp (London) | "My morning song": A cross cultural educational and musical partnership based on Elgar's Chasson de Martin |
| Nguyen Quoc Thanh of Queer Forever! on behalf partners Dinh Thao Linh, Ba-Bau AIR, and Dinh Thi Nhung, A Queer Museum / Ban Lon - Vagina Talks (Hanoi) | Asia Art Activism (London) | Cruising beyond the cloud computing, xuyên không across the sky (thực ra là light speed under the sea): Activities queerness, local and intercultural queerstories, transnational exchange of knowledge and practices |
| Luyen Thi Linh (Hanoi) | Casson & Friends by Tim Casson (Lincolnshire) | The Dance WE Made: Mentoring and performance of 4 Vietnamese dancers (2 disabled and 2 non-disabled) (COVID permitting) in public spaces in Hanoi |
| Chau Quynh Le on behalf of CPED: Center for Cultural Preservation & Economic Development (Hue) | Victoria Elizabeth Roe (London) | Weaving a Better World: Including Craft to Reset Sustainable Fashion based on Ta Oi women’s designs – workshops, manuals, and exchange |
| Tran Viet Huy on behalf of Đà Nẵng tui (Da Nang) | Dylan Jones of The Coracle Society (Cardiff, Wales) | Lênh Đênh - Journey on the Waves of Time: Activities for artists, craftsmen, and fishermen in Vietnam accessing current and historic uses of coracles (thuyền thúng) in Viet Nam and in the UK |