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.
An Open Afternoon at Asymmetry HQ for a casual lunch and gathering.
Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia
Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Volume 6, Number 1 (March 2022).
Guest-edited by Eva Bentcheva, Annie Jael Kwan and Roger Nelson
From September 2021 – January 2022, Annie Jael Kwan was digital curator-in-residence at the Barbican Centre, where she programmed Noguchi Resonances.
“FUTURE AGES WILL WONDER AT US, AS THE PRESENT AGE WONDERS AT US NOW”. Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC) The … More
Experiments in borrowing and using words. A map with many errors. An unreliable narrator. Multiple interlocutors. Some human, others, not. … More
The Indonesian collective aims to work as a double agent: a team of artistic directors for a major exhibition pursuing … More
In response to what they did yesterday afternoon – Warsan Shire* I see water all around methe skies throw … More
R3: SCAPE-CITY, the third-year programme for Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting, was to be held in Japan this … More
Annie Jael Kwan 