‘The conversation’s changed’: how Asian culture edged into the Australian mainstream

Melbourne’s new Asia Topa performing arts festival – a four-month-long juggernaut of shows from across the Asia Pacific region – is part of a growing trend towards telling non-Anglo storiesDancer Daniel Kok was recently in Melbourne in a show he devised with Australian performer Luke George called Bunny: an interactive exploration of bondage and the ancient underground erotic art of shibari. Kok’s works are provocative, often erotic explorations of current politics, of de