20 February – Join me at Arts Catalyst for a talk with artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, reflecting on their new work, Genetic Automata. Commissioned by Arts Catalyst, Genetic Automata forms the first in what will become a series of film-based works exploring exploring race and identity in an age of avatars, video games, and DNA Ancestry testing. … Continue reading
17 February 2019, 13:00-16:00Raven Row, 56 Artillery Ln, London E1 7LS Since Asia-Art-Activism moved into Raven Row, it has become a meeting place for artists, curators and researchers whose work relates and responds to the cartographies and communities of “Asia” including Southeast Asia and East Asia. Many of our associates and friends also identify as … Continue reading
UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed. Shown: Bomb Ponds (2009) Vandy Rattana; Elements (2011-2018) Noel Ed De Leon & Memory Dispute (2017), Sung Tieu. Image: Eva Broekema 23 November 2018 6.30 – 8.30pm Raven Row Eventbrite: Please book a place here. This AAA Sharing Session presents some reflections on the individual practices of founding member, curator and researcher Annie Jael Kwan, and AAA members visual/live … Continue reading
Alongside the weekend of Frieze in London, Asia-Art-Activism held a three-day programme of activities at Raven Row. On the first day, I shared a screening programme of performance videos from Southeast Asia. Gesturing the Region This series of videos brings together performances that manifest a sense of the spatial via the gesture … Continue reading
Date/Time: 31 August 2018, 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS Please come and join Asia-Art-Activism’s second ever ‘Sharing Session’ at Raven Row, London. This month’s session will focus on practices including the curatorial, infra-structural, research driven and aesthetic. Artist Bettina Fung will present her interest in ‘lines, movement and connections’ and the idea … Continue reading
Tucked within the Pitt Rivers Museum, founded in 1884 by archaeologist General Pitt Rivers and geared towards archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, is the modest Special Exhibitions gallery where “Uganda Stories” was installed. The show is Oxford-based artist and curator Sunil Shah’s personal artistic project that attempts to recover familial narratives of loss, while experimenting with … Continue reading
Exhibition dates: 16 September – 18 November 2018 Opening weekend: Saturday 15 September 2018 17:00: Official opening, featuring a new performance by artist Noel Ed De Leon. Sunday 16 September: Opening conference. Framer Framed, Amsterdam The group exhibition brings together works by internationally established and emerging artists who have deep connections to Southeast Asia, while … Continue reading
