Immanent Landscape is a group project that will be realized by eight artists from Australia and Japan, as they move across the countries and engage with each other over the two years period.

Participating artists are Ai Sasaki, Atsunobu Katagiri, Nobuaki Onishi, Hisaharu Motoda, Kiron Robinson, Hamish Carr, Jeremy Bakker and Utako Shindo. Their discipline varies from photography, drawing, printmaking, installation or IKEBANA, however, their works commonly reflect and embody environments of both the external and the internal. Therefore, their art practices encompass contexts such as urban-space, historical or social environment, mythological or spiritual world. With these diverse works, as a whole, we intend the group exhibition to express a ‘landscape’ where various point of views intersect.

The participating artists also actively engage with art communities through curation, direction or education. Immanent Landscape will run multiple projects such as artist in residence, research trip, workshop or talk session. Through these activities, we aim for artists to hold active dialogues, for art communities in both countries to develop relationships, and to approach broader audiences.

Immanent Landscape proposes to be a place, where we suggest and share new ‘landscape’ that speaks to everyone with different cultural backgrounds and ‘landscape’ that is longed for and embedded in our communal existence.

The project is funded by Arts Victoria and City of Melbourne, and supported by West Space for 2010.