Liminal wins at the Asia Pacific Arts Awards!
Leah Jing McIntosh and Cher Tan / Photo courtesy of Creative Australia
Liminal wins the Impact category at the Asia Pacific Arts Awards
It’s been a very lucky eighth year for Liminal! We are proud to have won the Impact category at the Asia Pacific Arts Awards, which celebrates Australia’s rich cultural exchange and creative connections in the Asia Pacific through arts and culture. The Impact category is awarded to an Australian artist, group/collective or arts organisation for significant international and intercultural impact on communities and/or audiences in Asia or the Pacific for a body of work over 5-10 years.
An excerpt from our acceptance speech
We must note that it seems especially lucky to be here tonight in this current climate of politically-motivated censorship, where projects deemed too critical are being swiftly dismantled by the state and attacked in terrifying and disingenuous ways. In such an atmosphere, creative projects devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion are increasingly targeted and under threat.
Likewise, as editors and writers, we understand intimately the power that language holds. In the past eighteen months we have also witnessed the censorship and punishment of our friends and colleagues as they speak out against zionism and genocide. Receiving this award is testament to the necessity of creative projects that aim to disrupt the status quo, and helps us recognise the cultural value of the work we still have ahead of us as we work in solidarity with like-minded peers.
Liminal is a project driven by the desire to make visible the unacknowledged structures of racism that so dehumanize all of us. We work towards new ways of thinking, of seeing, of being in the world. This is to say, we work together, towards a better future; we know we cannot do it alone.
Thank you.