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.... 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.... 
By Ashwariya Khemka and Masturah Sha’ari
The year 2020 was struck with the horrifying global pandemic of COVID-19, which brought a dramatic stop to most lives across the globe. While most colleges were forced to shift to online-based learning in many countries, including Singapore, students here were eventually able to return to school, following the government’s clearly outlined directives 
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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 
by Nurdiana Rahmat and Theresa Tan
On 18 March 2020, Taiwan made the announcement that all foreign nationals will be barred from entering the country. This is the new reality we are living in the thick of the global coronavirus pandemic. It is hard to believe now that just about four months ago, at the end of November, the Asian Art Histories students were in Taiwan and experiencing one of the most 
by Dr Woo Fook Wah –
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Dr Woo graduated from the MA Asian Art Histories Programme in 2014. This paper is an outcome of the Chinese Art and Cultural Research Grant, which is a collaboration between the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and the MA Asian Art Histories Programme. Dr Woo is the first recipient of the grant.