Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus

Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus is a two-part exhibition that presents the work of twelve artists commissioned through Diversity Arts Australia’s I Am Not A Virus initiative. This selection represents a range of artistic practices and conceptual reflections; these include acts of processing and healing from the trauma of racial prejudice experienced by Asian people. Through ceramics, photography, performance, music, craft, and storytelling, these artists have wrestled with racial prejudice and reframed multiculturalism to reflect this new lived experience.

Exhibition artists: Sophia Cai, Sai-Wai Foo, Jin Hien Lau, Nathan Liow, Zachary Lopez, Joe Paradise Lui & Deborah Ong, Andrea Srisurapon, Sweet and Sour Group, Jayanto Tan, Amy Zhang & MaggZ.

Curators: Con Gerakaris and Reina Takeuchi

Curatorial Assistant: Dylan Goh

Producer (I Am Not A Virus project): Kevin Bathman

Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus Part 1:  15 April – 15 May 2021 

• View the exhibition page

• Access the podcast & transcript for Art, craft, collective solidarity and fandom culture: Sophia Cai

• Access the Let’s Pack Acute Acts panel podcast & transcript

• Watch the live performance of 气 (qi) by Amy Zhang & MaggZ

Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus  Part 2: 3 June – 3 July 2021
View the exhibition page

Watch the Off the Page panel: Jin Hien Lau, Meg O’Shea and W. Chew “Chewie” Chan.

This exhibition series is presented by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Diversity Arts Australia, as part of the I Am Not A Virus project. Supported by Australia Council, Create NSW, Creative Victoria, City of Sydney, City of Parramatta and Inner West Council.