This year’s Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s Artistic Director is Rachael Rakes, and I will join as a Program Advisor.
Asia-Art-Activism @ Practise Till We Meet, esea contemporary
Asia-Art-Activism intervenes in the project space at @eseacontemporary, as part of the exhibition, Practise Till We Meet (FEB 18-MAY 28, 2023), that examines current diaspora narratives conditions.
Drop-in at Limestone Deposits
Rose Nordin will be hosting an online Zoom session with Annie Jael Kwan from @asia.art.activism and co-editor Joanna Wolfarth for a discussion on the publication, ASIA-ART-ACTIVISM: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience
Design Luminaries: Superflux in conversation
Join Co-Founder and Creative Director of Superflux, Anab Jain in conversation with Curator Annie Jael Kwan on imagining alternative worlds through speculative design.
David Blandy’s Atomic Light at John Hansard Gallery
Ioin artist David Blandy and curator and researcher Annie Jael Kwan as they discuss Blandy’s major new solo exhibition, Atomic Light.
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“Oracle Seed Dumpling” + Book Launch Roundtable
Bringing together AAA and Sheffield-based people of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) heritage at @blocprojects, the workshop celebrates AAA’s first publication, ‘Asia-Art-Activism: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience’ (and join us for the book launch afterwards).
PASAR @ Asia-Art-Activism, as part of Eastern Margin’s “Eternal Night Market”
INTRODUCING Raving Auntie at PASAR (Post-Asian School of Alternative Rites) @asia.art.activism, as part of the “Eternal Night Market” celebrating Eastern Margins’ 5th Birthday Rave!
Of earth, sea and air
Drawing on notions of performative incantations, this spirtual remix of Yusheng activates regional food materialities along with collective gestures and wish-making.
ASIA-ART-ACTIVISM: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience
ASIA-ART-ACTIVISM: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience
is a polyvocal collection of 18 essays by leading academics, artists, curators and researchers who address urgent questions of the complexities of UK Black/Asian race relations and migrations, in parallel with global Black/Asia political entanglements and tensions, reflections on the rise of anti-Asian/migrant sentiment in the UK in relation to the ‘Hostile environment’ and the weaponisation of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Annie Jael Kwan 