Chinese Art and Cultural Research Grant Presentations

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We are delighted to announce that two of our alumni, Ramesh and Elaine (from the class of 2018 and 2017 respectively) will be presenting their research papers as part of the Chinese Art and Cultural Research Grant, a collaboration between the MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE and the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. Under the grant, the candidates were given funding to do a one-year research Read more....

The Spice Route: Connected Histories in South and Southeast Asia

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The MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE is collaborating with the London School of Economics on a series of roundtables on South Asia. The first one was held in November last year. The next session is on 16 June 2022 and is titled The Spice Route: Connected Histories in South and Southeast Asia. The Programme Leader of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme, Jeffrey Say, will be the discussant. Read more....

History, Truth, Memory: Trauma in Asian Contemporary Art

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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....

Curating and Exhibiting Asian Diaspora Artists: Forum and Book Talk

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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

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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....