Image credit: Manit Sriwanichpoom
Horror in Pink #3
2001
Pink man photograph and concept: Manit Sriwanichpoom
Performance: Sompong Tawee
Incident photograph: Plaek Khempila
Contemporary Art and Discourse in Southeast Asia
Art and Action: Contemporary Art and Discourse in
Southeast Asia
Venue:
Block F, Level 2, Room 202
LASALLE College of the Arts
1 McNally Street,
Singapore 187940
DAY 1: Monday 3 December 2018
9:00am – 9:30am
Registration
9:30am – 9.45am
Welcoming Remarks
Welcome by Steve Dixon, President, LASALLE College of the Arts
9.45am – 10.00am
Introduction
Jeffrey Say and Iola Lenzi, Co-convenors of Art and Action
10:00am – 11:30am
Panel 1: Old Codes New Meanings: Aspects of Tradition in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Moderator: Seng Yu Jin, Senior Curator, National Gallery, Singapore
Not to Ignore Artists: Tang Chang as a Recluse and Cultivator of the Audience and an (Alternative) Art Scene in Bangkok
Orianna Cacchione, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago
A Debate between Tradition and Future: Art in Laos from 1991
Anna Koshcheeva, Independent Researcher, Singapore
Not Nostalgia: How Tradition is Coopted for Critical Function in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art– Comparative Assessment, 1990–2017
Iola Lenzi, art historian and curator, adjunct lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
11.30am – 1:30pm
Lunch
MA Asian Art Histories Student Poster Presentations
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Panel 2: Stealing Public Space: How Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Engages with the City
Moderator: Jeffrey Say, Programme Leader, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Visions of New Urban Space: Hanoi as Art Subject
Natalia Kraevskaia, Vietnam National University (International School), Hanoi
Boundary Creeping in Anida Yoeu Ali’s The Buddhist Bug: Intersections of the Body, Religion and the State in Singapore
Annie Jael Kwan, Independent Curator, London
Indonesian Environmental Art: Intersecting Nature, Politics and Cultural Heritage
Edwin Jurriëns, Asia Institute of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Visiting Fellow. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Afternoon Tea
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Panel 3: Word play as Clue and Cue: The Place of Text in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Moderator: Mitha Budhyarto, Lecturer, Cultural and Contextual Studies, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
Reading Between the Lines: The Arabic Script in Contemporary Indonesian Art
Luke Chua, Independent Researcher, Singapore
Remembering Landscape: Tang Chang’s Late Work
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
5:00pm – 7:30pm
Keynote Presentations
Respondent: Venka Purushothaman, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, LASALLE College of the Arts
Exit Points: Post-Categorial Art, and Art History without Categories
Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art Theory, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh; Professor, Division of Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought, European Graduate School
Conceptual Art and Authoritarianism in 1970s Southeast Asia
Marian Pastor Roces, Independent Curator and Critic, Manila.
DAY 2: Tuesday 4 December 2018
9:00am – 9:15am
Registration
9:15am – 9:30am
Welcoming Remarks
Adam Knee, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
9:30am – 11:00am
Panel 4: Direct Dissemination: Comics and Popular Media
Moderator: Paul Khoo, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Komiks in Campaigns: Consuming the ‘Superhero’
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Director of the Japanese Studies Program and Assistant Professor of the Department of History of the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila
Transformational in Form, Socialist in Content: An Exploration of the Aesthetics and Content of Comics for Adults by Nguyen Thanh Phong
Bui Thi Thanh Mai, Lecturer and Researcher in Art History, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi
Making the Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: Practical Applications of Comics Theory in the Formal and Narrative Experiments of The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Sonny Liew, comics artist, painter and illustrator, Singapore
11:00am – 11:30am
Morning Tea
11:30am – 1:00pm
Panel 5: Not Lagging, Sometimes Leading: Tracing the Implications of Technological Parity
Moderator: Clare Veal, Lecturer, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE College of the Arts
The Archive as Producer: Abednego Trianto’s Postcolonial Appropriation
Alexander Supartono, Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
Beyond Representation: Action, Art, and Performance Art in Indonesia
Thomas Berghuis, Independent Researcher, The Netherlands
From Practice to Theory to History and Back: A Journey Through Photographic Time
Gilles Massot, Lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Panel 6: Daring Canon: Assessing Art Historical Narratives of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art
Moderator: John Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Sydney
The Russian Connection
Charles Merewether, Curator, Georgian National Museum, T’bilsi
Revision – Artists who Readdress Art’s History
Vera Mey, PhD candidate, SOAS, University of London, London
Entry Points: Resonating Histories of Punk & Performance in the UK and Southeast Asia
Stevphen Shukaitis, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, Essex
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00pm – 5:00pm
Curators’ tour of Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore exhibitions Moving Pledges: Art and Action in Southeast Asia and Dissolving Margins
5:15pm – 6:00pm
Artist’s Performances
Bui Cong Khanh (Vietnam) Stamp on Me
Eng Kai Er, Compressible Sentiments
DAY 3: Wednesday 5 December 2018
9:00am – 9:15am
Registration
9:15am – 9:30am
Welcoming Remarks
Venka Purushothaman, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
9:30am – 11:00am
Panel 7: From the Rural to the Urban: A Place for the Artists Village in the City
Moderator: Jennifer Burris, Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Artists Village: The Rural as Fringe and Alterity
Seng Yu Jin, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore
The Artists Village: Negotiating and Engaging the City
Adrian Tan, Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
In Search of the Collective in The Artists Village
Woon Tien Wei, Artist-Curator, Singapore
11:00am – 11:30am
Morning Tea
11:30am – 1:00pm
Closing Lecture
‘Tradition into Modern, Modern into Contemporary’: A Habitual Interpretation via Thai Examples.
John Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Sydney
Discussant: Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
Artists Panel
This conversational style panel asks artists from Southeast Asia to consider: the social impact they want their work to have as well as the impact they feel it has had, and how they use aesthetics to further their critical perspectives.
Moderator: Sally J. Clarke, Curator and Arts Writer; Founder, Asian Arts Advisory, Singapore
Arahmaiani (Indonesia)
S. Chandrasekaran (Singapore)
Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Philippines)
Yee I-Lann (Malaysia)
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Closing Remarks
Iola Lenzi, Co-Convenor of Art and Action
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Cultural tours
