MA Asian Art Histories Bangkok Study Trip – 18-22 December 2022

Category - overseas study trips
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. Read more....

The Geometries of Afro Asia

Category - annual lecture 2023
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 Read more....

Art and Action : Contemporary Art and Discourse in Southeast Asia

Category - events
Art and Action is an international art history conference that critically examines the development of art practices in Southeast Asia from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the role of artists and artworks as social conduits, with the aim of generating discourses specific to the contexts and conditions of the region. New modes of artistic production have come to the fore in Southeast Asia Read more....

Shaping the Early Discourse of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art: Japan, Australia and Singapore

Category - forums
Shaping the Early Discourse of Southeast Asian Contemporary Art: Japan, Australia and Singapore Date: Monday, 22nd February 2016 Time: 7pm-9pm Venue: Block F, Room 202, LASALLE College of the Arts Synopsis: This forum is intended to be a conversation between three curators from Japan, Australia and Singapore who were involved in exhibitions that had influenced and shaped the early discourse Read more....

Masters of Arts Asian Art Histories

Category - admission
The MA in Asian Art Histories is the first taught MA Programme in any tertiary institution to focus on Asian modern and contemporary art histories. While Asian art history programmes traditionally focus on the classical periods or grand traditions, the LASALLE Programme gives students the opportunity to lead original research in largely underexplored fields, investigate recently Read more....