Diversionary Tactics is MIMA's third touring program comprising a collection of Australian film and video art which premiered at Experimenta '92. The collection of twenty-six Australian works commenced touring in February 1994 and travelled nationally to over thirty venues in both capital cities and regional areas. Moving further afield, the program also toured internationally visiting Germany, the Netherlands and Edinburgh, Scotland.

In November last year, filmmaker Robert Nery accompanied Diversionary Tactics to Taipei where the host organisation, the National Film Archive, screened the program three times to an enthusiastic audience. While in Taipei, Nery took part in a seminar debating video art and its potential growth in Taiwan and also visited the National Institute for the Arts where he gave an informal talk to a class of video students and screened a selection of his video work. Nery commented that these countries possessed exciting and productive communities of artists and filmmakers, with filmmakers working extensively in the video medium. Nery also visited the Philippines where interest was expressed in future screenings of Diversionary Tactics at the Cultural Centre of the Philippines and at the Australian Centre in Manila.

MIMA is grateful to Robert for his invaluable contribution to the success of this touring program. He has been instrumental in paving the way for future exchange and collaboration between MIMA and various cultural organisations in Asia and we are looking forward to pursuing our relationship with our Asian colleagues in 1995.

MIMA would like to thank the Australia Council for funding the tour of Diversionary Tactics.

© MESH#5 Summer, 1995. MESH film/video/media/art is the journal of Experimenta Media Arts