Fausta graduated with a Bachelor in Arts in Social Anthropology and Political Science from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is currently a History and Social Studies teacher in a secondary school. Fausta's interests and appreciation for history has nurtured his passion to want to learn Read more.... Fausta Tan (Graduated in 2023)
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Fausta graduated with a Bachelor in Arts in Social Anthropology and Political Science from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He is currently a History and Social Studies teacher in a secondary school. Fausta's interests and appreciation for history has nurtured his passion to want to learn Read more.... 
With the reopening of borders after a long COVID-19 hiatus, the choices available to our cohort were significantly greater than those of the past two years. Ultimately, the decision was made to travel to Bangkok, Thailand, to coincide with the Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB). The theme for this edition of the BAB, Chaos:Calm, is a fitting response to the uncertainty we experienced in the last two years. 
Comprising the regions that more than 80% of the world call home, Afro Asia came to the political fore in the mid-1950s, calling for accelerated decolonization on the one hand and rejecting Cold War polarization on the other. Building on this history, this talk mobilizes Afro Asia as an epistemological grounds for rethinking geographical, social, and aesthetic worlds primarily through the worlds Black 
Ely Nayir is a docent at the National Gallery Singapore and with Friends of the Museums. The years as an arts and heritage volunteer was the catalyst for her to pursue formal studies, initially in Art & Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and subsequently the MA Asian Art Histories programme at LASALLE. She has a background in broadcasting, public relations, media training and marketing 
Yvonne comes from a family of art collectors. Her long-standing interest in visual art led her to pursue an MA in Asian Art Histories. She is interested in how culturally and historically embedded mediums become contemporary and global. Her research focuses on the employment of woodblock in contemporary Chinese art as a conceptual device and critical tool. Yvonne previously worked in media and communications.