Olivia Koh: Emerging Artist to Visit the Philippines

Olivia Koh is a Melbourne-born and based visual artist and is the 2016 recipient of the Freedman Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists. She will undertake a residency at Green Papaya inManila - the longest running artist-run space in the Philippines. Image: Video still, "Illness, Death and Burial" (2015) (Supplied by Olivia Koh)

Video still, "Illness, Death and Burial" (2015) Source: Supplied by Olivia Koh

Koh's video-based practice reflects her interest in identity and familiar and unfamiliar places. This has previously resulted in Bugtong Bugtong and Illness, Death and Burial in the Southern Philippines with Special Reference to the Tausug II.

 

The Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship Exhibition 2016 is co-presented by the Freedman Foundation, the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) and UNSW Galleries.