Image credit: Amanda Heng
Let's Chat
Ongoing from 1996; this version 2015, Goethe Institut, Hanoi
Participative performance
Photograph: Iola Lenzi
Contemporary Art and Discourse in Southeast Asia
Panel 1
Old Codes New Meanings:
Aspects of Tradition in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Not to Ignore Artists:
Tang Chang as Recluse and Cultivator of the Audience and an (Alternative) Art Scene in Bangkok
Orianna Cacchione, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
A Debate between Tradition and Future:
Art in Laos from 1991.
Anna Koshcheeva, MA graduate, LASALLE College of the Arts
Not Nostalgia:
How Tradition is Coopted for Critical Function in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art– Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Filipino and Burmese Examples Compared
Iola Lenzi, Art Historian and Curator, adjunct lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts
Panel 2
Stealing Public Space:
How Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Engages with the City
Visions of New Urban Space:
Hanoi as an 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
Panel 3
Word-play as Clue and Cue:
The Place of Text in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
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.
Panel 4
Direct Dissemination:
Comics and Popular Media
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
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
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, comic artist, painter and illustrator
Panel 5
Not Lagging; Sometimes Leading:
Tracing the Implications of Technological Parity
The Archive as Producer:
Abednego Trianto’s Postcolonial Appropriation.
Alexander Supartono, Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University
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
Panel 6
Daring Canon:
Assessing Art Historical Narratives of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art
The Russian Connection
Charles Merewether, Curator, Georgian National Museum
Revision–Artists who Readdress Art’s History
Vera Mey, PhD candidate, SOAS, University of London
Entry Points:
Resonating Histories of Punk & Performance in the UK and Southeast Asia
Stevphen Shukaitis, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
The Artists Village:
The Rural as Fringe and Alterity
Seng Yu Jin, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Singapore
The Artists Village:
Negotiating and Engaging the City
Adrian Tan, Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University
In Search of the Collective in The Artists Village
Woon Tien Wei, artist-curator, Singapore
Panel 8
Artist’s Panel
Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Philippines)
Closing Lecture
‘Tradition into Modern, Modern into Contemporary’, a Habitual Interpretation via Thai examples.
John Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney
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