This symposium explores memory, trauma and the politics of the past in Asian contemporary art. It investigates the legacies of violence in the region, probing its continued, if repressed, imprint on Asia’s socio-political landscape. If history is written by the victors, who speaks for history’s victims? Art historians Dr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Nayun Jang team up with acclaimed Indonesian artist Read more....

Online event Monday, 2 November 2020, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in the number of exhibitions and trans-national projects that presented diaspora as a theme or featured diasporic artists, including, most recently, DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, which was held at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Forum: Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia Speakers Charmaine Toh Dr Michelle Antoinette Dr Seng Yu Jin Moderator Jeffrey Say Monday,9 Sept 2019,7:00pm – 9:00pm Lecture Theatre, Block F Level 2 #F202, LASALLE. Free admission. RSVP: nurdiana.rahmat@mylasalle.edu.sg While exhibition histories have been gaining attention as Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Forum Itinerancy, Identity & Citizenship: 19th Century Photography in Southeast Asia Speakers Dr Susie Protschky (Senior Lecturer, Monash University) Peter Lee (Independent art and heritage consultant) Gilles Massot (Lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts) Thur, 4 April 2019, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Lecture Theatre, Block F Level 2 #F202, LASALLE. Free admission. RSVP: Read more....