Dylan Goh (also known as ‘Arcai’) is an independent street dancer, producer and curator with a decade of experience in the creative industries.
His work champions underrepresented artforms and communities, particularly queer and diasporic youth, and he brings a deep commitment to inclusive governance, cultural literacy, and transnational artistic exchange.
Dylan is the Australian founder of Palette Session, a not-for-profit experimental dance collective in Sydney and Seoul, and Co-Chair of Cypher Culture. He currently serves as an Artform Board Member for Dance and Physical Theatre at Create NSW, where he has helped allocate $1.4 million in arts funding.
Dylan has produced large-scale cultural events, curated festivals, and taught marketing at UNSW, while also contributing to youth and multicultural initiatives through roles with the Australia Korea Young Professionals Association and the City of Sydney. He is an alumnus of the New Colombo Plan and Asian-Australian Leadership Awards.
As a dancer, Dylan’s artistry is rooted in the gay dance of punking / w*acking which emerged from underground gay clubs of Los Angeles in the 1970s such as Paradise Ballroom and Ginos. It is characterised by storytelling, posing and whacking - or sharp striking motions with arms. He currently leads community jam sessions for local punkers / w*ackers through Sydney City W_acking.
DYLAN | OCTOBER 2025
Dylan Goh | dancer, producer, curator
working between Seoul & Sydney
Gadigal & Bidjigal Country
Education
Certificate III in Live Production and Technical Services, TAFE NSW, Sydney: Australia | Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Bachelor of Commerce / Design, UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney: Australia | 2017 - 2023
Selected Projects
Palette Session Australia, experimental dance sessions, Sydney: Australia | 2024 - present
吃饭 (Chi-Fan), minigame, Fairfield City; Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney: Australia | 2023
Queer Haymarket Tour, performance program + guided walking tour, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Haymarket Chinatown, Sydney: Australia | 2022
Campsie Street Festival, community street festival; Campsie, Sydney: Australia | 2022
UNCOVER – 1st Year Design, mentoring program + art exhibition; AD Space, Sydney: Australia | 2021
Acute Actions: Responses To I Am Not A Virus, art exhibition, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney: Australia | 2021
#mealtimewithdilly, online culinary archive; Instagram | 2020
The Makers Movement, art exhibition; Three Foot Square, Sydney: Australia | 2019
Transmute Voice, art exhibition; University of New South Wales, Sydney: Australia | 2019
Underground, youth art festival; City of Sydney, Green Square Library, Sydney: Australia | 2018
Enmeshed Technology, live art performance; City of Sydney, Customs House Library, Sydney: Australia | 2017
Genext, youth art festival; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Australia | 2016
Selected Exhibitions
Unboxed / Lahtipakitud; group art exhibition, curated by Lachlan Bell; Sydney Estonian House, Sydney: Australia | 2022
Sincerely Yours; group art exhibition, curated by Sophia Cai; West Space x Arts Project Australia, Melbourne: Australia | 2022
The Third Space; group art exhibition, curated by Elaine Kim; Kudos Online, Sydney: Australia | 2021
kaikai; solo art exhibition; AD Space, Sydney: Australia | 2021
Objects of Influence; group art exhibition, curated by Ramesh Nithiyendran; UNSW Art & Design, Sydney: Australia | 2019
Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award; group art exhibition, curated by Audrey Pfister; Kudos Gallery, Sydney: Australia | 2019
Simon Says Touch!; group art exhibition, curated by Natalie Tso; Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney: Australia | 2019
VIVID Light; public light festival; curated by Lucy Keeler; Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney: Australia | 2019
VIVID Light; public light festival; curated by Anthony Bastic; Circular Quay, Sydney: Australia | 2018
GreenWay Art Prize, touring group exhibition, curated by Elyse Goldfinch; Art Est. Art School, Seaview Gallery & Bankstown Art Centre, Sydney: Australia | 2017
Professional Development
Independent Choreographers Program, professional development; Dancehouse | 2024
4A Curators’ Intensive Program, professional development; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art | 2021
Awards
Asian-Australian Leadership Awards (Under 25 Rising Star), finalist; Asialink / Johnson & Johnson | 2023
Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF) Grant Round 2023-24, grant recipient; Australia-Korea Foundation | 2023
21/22 Small Project Grants (Quick Response), grant recipient; Create NSW | 2022
Kudos Emerging Curator Award, winner; Kudos | 2021
Presence of Mind, residency; Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios | 2021
Asia Society Korea Youth (ASK-Y), fellowship; Asia Society Korea | 2021
New Colombo Plan, fellowship; Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | 2020
Peoples’ Choice Award, winner; UNSWeetened Literary Journal | 2020
Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award, finalist; Kudos | 2019
GreenWay Open Art Prize, finalist; GreenWay Art Prize | 2017
Arc @ UNSW Art & Design Grant, grant recipient; UNSW Art & Design | 2017
Competitions
About Time: Vol.3 , 2 v 2 open styles battle, Top 16; Sync Squad, Sydney: Australia | 2025
Destructive Steps 16, 2 v 2 experimental dance battle, Top 16; Destructive Steps Dance Association, Sydney: Australia | 2024
VIVID FUTURE: Vol. 6: 1 v 1 open styles battle, winner; VIVID FUTURE, Sydney: Australia | 2024
Waacking Inferno: Vol. 2, open performance, winner; Burn City Waack, Melbourne: Australia | 2023
Grimm Jam: Vol. 6, 2 v 2 experimental dance battle, Top 8; GRIMM.B, Seoul: South Korea | 2023
움막 2023, 1 v 1 experimental dance battle, Top 16; Ummak (움막), Seoul: South Korea | 2023
Synergy: Vol. 15, 2 v 2 open styles battle, runner up; SoulXpress Hiphop Society, Sydney: Australia | 2022
Waacking Inferno: Vol. 1, 2 v 2 open styles battle, Top 8; Burn City Waack, Melbourne: Australia | 2022
4E Sydney Dance Battle, 1 v 1 open styles battle, Top 16; 4E Sydney, Sydney: Australia | 2022
Jobs
Marketing Coordinator; City People, Sydney: Australia | Jul 2024 - present
Producer; Critical Path, Sydney: Australia | Jul 2024 - present
Creative Producer / Founder; Palette Session Australia, Sydney: Australia | Feb 2024 - present
Content Creator; Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra: Australia | Apr 2023 - Apr 2024
Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Administrator; Casula Powerhouse, Sydney: Australia | Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Curator (Campsie Street Festival), City of Canterbury Bankstown, Sydney: Australia | Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Assistant Producer / Curatorial Assistant; 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney: Australia | Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Exhibitions Coordinator; AD Space, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney: Australia | Mar 2021 - May 2022
Curatorial Assistant / Curatorial Volunteer; Museum of Applied Art & Sciences, Sydney: Australia | Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Visitor Host; Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney: Australia | Sept 2019 - Mar 2021
Gallery Host; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Australia | Sept 2018 - Sept 2019
Artistic Director / Head of Marketing; UNSW Illuminate, Sydney: Australia | Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Producer; City of Sydney, Sydney: Australia | Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
Presentations
breaking barriers, reclaiming connection: how street dance jams foster AUS-KOR unity, Korea Australia Future Youth Forum; Sydney: Australia | 2025
Building Korean-Australian connections through experimental dance sessions, presenter at 2024 AKYPA Leadership Forum; Melbourne: Australia | 2024
Making us Remember: Resisting Erasure in East Asian Media, presenter at 8th AAS-in-Asia Conference; Kyungpook National University, Daegu: South Korea | 2023
Writing
Exploring House and Experimental Dance in Korea: JAE-SANG, interview by Dylan Goh; Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Commonwealth of Australia | 2024
Experimental dance collective in Korea: GRIMM.B, interview by Dylan Goh; Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Commonwealth of Australia | 2023
Navigating Korea’s street dance scene as a foreigner, interview by Dylan Goh; Embassy of the Republic of Korea to the Commonwealth of Australia | 2023
Presence of Mind, exhibition essay by Dylan Goh; Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios, Sydney: Australia | 2021
Recipes for Resistance, writing entry by Dylan Goh; Migrant Zine Collective, Auckland: New Zealand | 2021
UNSWeetened Literary Journal, poem by Dylan Goh; Arc @ UNSW, Sydney: Australia | 2020
Framework #24: Endurance, critical arts piece by Dylan Goh; Arc @ UNSW Art & Design, Sydney: Australia | 2018
Press
UNSW @ Vivid Sydney 2019; UNSW | 2019
UNSW shines bright at Vivid Sydney, Louise Templeton; University of New South Wales | 2019
Under the Celestial Pancake: Student’s Shimmering VIVID Installation, UNSW Art & Design | 2019