Asia TOPA Radar

Spark your curiosity at Asia TOPA Radar.

Peek behind the studio door, get the scoop from leading artists across the Asia Pacific and find out what’s fueling their creativity! Connect with community and mingle to the tunes of the guest DJ, all the while eating delicious snacks provided by arts / food collective Nongkrong.

Head to Fed Square for Asia TOPA Radar’s exciting return.

About Asia TOPA

Asia TOPA is a site for celebration and exchange, centring Asia Pacific artists and their ideas. Creating new connections between artists, audiences and communities, Asia TOPA delivers the triennial Asia TOPA Festival, year-round Creative Developments and public offerings. Returning to Melbourne February 2025, the full Asia TOPA festival program will be announced soon, including a stellar line up of live music, food and performance at Fed Square!
Asia TOPA | Arts Centre Melbourne

About the artists

This bumper edition of Radar will be hosted by Elyssia Wilson-Heti, a powerhouse in art and activism and member of iconic Queer Indigenous collective FAFSWAG (Aotearoa).

Elyssia will be joined by:

CONJAH, the collaborative force of Jahra Wasasala and ooshcon, merging Fijian and Samoan heritages into a multifaceted artistic expression spanning street dance, physical theatre, poetry, voice work, and digital art. They’ll be sharing insight into their mahi (work) and its integral relationship with the world.

Liquid Architecture (LA), helmed by Javanese-Australian director and CEO Kristi Monfries, is Australia’s leading organisation for artists working with sound and listening. Their program sits at the intersection of contemporary art and experimental music, expressed through a range of presentation, publishing, research and commissioning activities.

Trailblazing Senior First Nations dance artist and choreographer raymond blanco (Bunyi Bunyi Bumi), groundbreaking director, choreographer and dramaturg Priya Srinivasan (Sangam / Bunyi Bunyi Bumi) discussing intercultural collaboration. Working together on a new trans-disciplinary performance called Bunyi Bunyi Bumi, blanco and Srinivasan ask what is possible when we listen deeply to the Earth Mother and explore the dire consequences when we do not.

You’ll be fed by Nongkrong – the arts and food collective redefining what it means to be Indonesian and Australian – and entertained by a spicy but seamless blend of global club music from Haus of Ralph.

This edition of Asia TOPA Radar is presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Fed Square.

Image credit: CONJAH (Jahra Wasasala and ooschon, 2023)