{"id":1916,"date":"2026-03-23T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:42:31","slug":"mekong-as-metaphor-again-contemporary-art-and-regionality-in-southeast-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/mekong-as-metaphor-again-contemporary-art-and-regionality-in-southeast-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mekong as Metaphor, Again: Contemporary Art and Regionality in Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"This reflection on region departs from an earlier essay by speaker Associate Professor Pamela Nguyen Corey titled \u201cMetaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia\u201d (2013), which examined controversies around the curatorial use of geographical metaphors (such as the Mekong and the Ho Chi Minh Trail) to promote contemporary artists and foster artistic collaboration in mainland Read more....<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This reflection on region departs from an earlier essay by speaker Associate Professor Pamela Nguyen Corey titled \u201cMetaphor as Method: Curating Regionalism in Mainland Southeast Asia\u201d (2013), which examined controversies around the curatorial use of geographical metaphors (such as the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-lecture-2026","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/anuallecture1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nnKk-uU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asianarthistories.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}