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
Category: TEXTS
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
On the future and the artist-run spaces
How do artist initiatives respond to a world of change? How do they relate to the local community? read all … More
And we breathe
A commissioned piece written as a response to Jack Gray’s “Our Ancestral Bodies: A Movement Interlude,” part of 2020 GAX Aotearoa Ngā Tai o te Ao: Global Tides.
Annie Jael Kwan 