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.
Category: TEXTS
Asymmetry Open Afternoon: Annie Jael Kwan, in conversation with Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt
An Open Afternoon at Asymmetry HQ for a casual lunch and gathering.
Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia
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
Noguchi Resonances
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
“FUTURE AGES WILL WONDER AT US, AS THE PRESENT AGE WONDERS AT US NOW”. Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC) The … More
wayfinding notes
Experiments in borrowing and using words. A map with many errors. An unreliable narrator. Multiple interlocutors. Some human, others, not. … More
‘Winter Comes Early’: ruangrupa Accelerates Plans to Upend Documenta 15
The Indonesian collective aims to work as a double agent: a team of artistic directors for a major exhibition pursuing … More
How we begin this mo(u)rning…
In response to what they did yesterday afternoon – Warsan Shire* I see water all around methe skies throw … More
Discursive Arena: R3 Scape-City
R3: SCAPE-CITY, the third-year programme for Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting, was to be held in Japan this … More