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Art and Action: Contemporary Art and Discourse in
\nSoutheast Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venue: <\/strong>
\nBlock F, Level 2, Room 202
\nLASALLE College of the Arts
\n1 McNally Street,
\nSingapore 187940<\/p>\n

\n

DAY 1: Monday 3 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00am \u2013 9:30am<\/strong>
\nRegistration<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:30am \u2013 9.45am\t<\/strong>
\nWelcoming Remarks<\/strong>
\nWelcome by Steve Dixon, President, LASALLE College of the Arts<\/p>\n

9.45am – 10.00am<\/strong>
\nIntroduction<\/strong>
\nJeffrey Say and Iola Lenzi, Co-convenors of Art and Action<\/p>\n

10:00am – 11:30am<\/strong>
\nPanel 1: Old Codes New Meanings: Aspects of Tradition in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art<\/strong>
\nModerator: Seng Yu Jin, Senior Curator, National Gallery, Singapore<\/p>\n

Not to Ignore Artists: Tang Chang as a Recluse and Cultivator of the Audience and an (Alternative) Art Scene in Bangkok<\/em>
\nOrianna Cacchione, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago<\/p>\n

A Debate between Tradition and Future: Art in Laos from 1991<\/em>
\nAnna Koshcheeva, Independent Researcher, Singapore<\/p>\n

Not Nostalgia: How Tradition is Coopted for Critical Function in Southeast Asian Contemporary Art\u2013 Comparative Assessment, 1990\u20132017<\/em>
\nIola Lenzi, art historian and curator, adjunct lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

11.30am \u2013 1:30pm
\nLunch
\nMA Asian Art Histories Student Poster Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n

1:30pm \u2013 3:00pm<\/strong>
\nPanel 2: Stealing Public Space: How Southeast Asian Contemporary Art Engages with the City<\/strong>
\nModerator: Jeffrey Say, Programme Leader, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

Visions of New Urban Space: Hanoi as Art Subject<\/em>
\nNatalia Kraevskaia, Vietnam National University (International School), Hanoi<\/p>\n

Boundary Creeping in Anida Yoeu Ali\u2019s The Buddhist Bug: Intersections of the Body, Religion and the State in Singapore<\/em>
\nAnnie Jael Kwan, Independent Curator, London<\/p>\n

Indonesian Environmental Art: Intersecting Nature, Politics and Cultural Heritage<\/em>
\nEdwin Jurri\u00ebns, 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<\/p>\n

3:00pm \u2013 3:30pm
\nAfternoon Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:30pm \u2013 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nPanel 3: Word play as Clue and Cue: The Place of Text in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art<\/strong>
\nModerator: Mitha Budhyarto, Lecturer, Cultural and Contextual Studies, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

Reading Between the Lines: The Arabic Script in Contemporary Indonesian Art <\/em>
\nLuke Chua, Independent Researcher, Singapore<\/p>\n

Remembering Landscape: Tang Chang\u2019s Late Work<\/em>
\nChanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago<\/p>\n

5:00pm \u2013 7:30pm
\nKeynote Presentations<\/strong>
\nRespondent: Venka Purushothaman, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, LASALLE College of the Arts<\/p>\n

Exit Points: Post-Categorial Art, and Art History without Categories<\/em>
\nTerry 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<\/p>\n

Conceptual Art and Authoritarianism in 1970s Southeast Asia<\/em>
\nMarian Pastor Roces, Independent Curator and Critic, Manila.<\/p>\n

\n

DAY 2: Tuesday 4 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00am \u2013 9:15am
\nRegistration<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:15am \u2013 9:30am\t<\/strong>
\nWelcoming Remarks<\/strong>
\nAdam Knee, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

9:30am \u2013 11:00am<\/strong>
\nPanel 4: Direct Dissemination: Comics and Popular Media<\/strong>
\nModerator: Paul Khoo, Adjunct Lecturer, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<\/p>\n

Komiks in Campaigns: Consuming the \u2018Superhero\u2019<\/em>
\nKarl 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<\/p>\n

Transformational in Form, Socialist in Content: An Exploration of the Aesthetics and Content of Comics for Adults by Nguyen Thanh Phong<\/em>
\nBui Thi Thanh Mai, Lecturer and Researcher in Art History, Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi<\/p>\n

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<\/em>
\nSonny Liew, comics artist, painter and illustrator, Singapore<\/p>\n

11:00am \u2013 11:30am
\nMorning Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30am \u2013 1:00pm<\/strong>
\nPanel 5: Not Lagging, Sometimes Leading: Tracing the Implications of Technological Parity<\/strong>
\nModerator: Clare Veal, Lecturer, MA Asian Art Histories, LASALLE College of the Arts<\/p>\n

The Archive as Producer: Abednego Trianto\u2019s Postcolonial Appropriation<\/em>
\nAlexander Supartono, Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh<\/p>\n

Beyond Representation: Action, Art, and Performance Art in Indonesia<\/em>
\nThomas Berghuis, Independent Researcher, The Netherlands<\/p>\n

From Practice to Theory to History and Back: A Journey Through Photographic Time<\/em>
\nGilles Massot, Lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

1:00pm \u2013 2:00pm
\nLunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

2:00pm \u2013 3:30pm<\/strong>
\nPanel 6: Daring Canon: Assessing Art Historical Narratives of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art<\/strong>
\nModerator: John Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Sydney<\/p>\n

The Russian Connection<\/em>
\nCharles Merewether, Curator, Georgian National Museum, T\u2019bilsi<\/p>\n

Revision \u2013 Artists who Readdress Art\u2019s History<\/em>
\nVera Mey, PhD candidate, SOAS, University of London, London<\/p>\n

Entry Points: Resonating Histories of Punk & Performance in the UK and Southeast Asia<\/em>
\nStevphen Shukaitis, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, Essex<\/p>\n

3:30pm \u2013 4:00pm
\nAfternoon Tea<\/strong><\/p>\n

4:00pm \u2013 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nCurators\u2019 tour of Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore exhibitions Moving Pledges: Art and Action in Southeast Asia and Dissolving Margins<\/em><\/p>\n

5:15pm \u2013 6:00pm
\nArtist’s Performances<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bui Cong Khanh (Vietnam) Stamp on Me<\/em>
\nEng Kai Er, Compressible Sentiments<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

DAY 3: Wednesday 5 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00am \u2013 9:15am
\nRegistration<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:15am \u2013 9:30am\t<\/strong>
\nWelcoming Remarks<\/strong>
\nVenka Purushothaman, Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore<\/p>\n

9:30am \u2013 11:00am <\/strong>
\nPanel 7: From the Rural to the Urban: A Place for the Artists Village in the City<\/strong>
\nModerator: Jennifer Burris, Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<\/p>\n

The Artists Village: The Rural as Fringe and Alterity<\/em>
\nSeng Yu Jin, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Singapore, Singapore<\/p>\n

The Artists Village: Negotiating and Engaging the City<\/em>
\nAdrian Tan, Research Scholar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<\/p>\n

In Search of the Collective in The Artists Village<\/em>
\nWoon Tien Wei, Artist-Curator, Singapore<\/p>\n

11:00am \u2013 11:30am
\nMorning Tea <\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30am \u2013 1:00pm
\nClosing Lecture<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Tradition into Modern, Modern into Contemporary\u2019: A Habitual Interpretation via Thai Examples.<\/em>
\nJohn Clark, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Sydney
\nDiscussant: Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol, Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago<\/p>\n

1:00pm \u2013 2:00pm
\nLunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

2:00pm \u2013 3:30pm<\/strong>
\nArtists Panel<\/strong>
\nThis 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.
\nModerator: Sally J. Clarke, Curator and Arts Writer; Founder, Asian Arts Advisory, Singapore<\/p>\n

Arahmaiani (Indonesia)<\/p>\n

S. Chandrasekaran (Singapore)<\/p>\n

Imelda Cajipe Endaya (Philippines)<\/p>\n

Yee I-Lann (Malaysia)<\/p>\n

3:30pm \u2013 4:00pm <\/strong>
\nClosing Remarks<\/strong>
\nIola Lenzi, Co-Convenor of Art and Action<\/p>\n

4:00pm \u2013 6:00pm
\nCultural tours<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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