“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).

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.

Auto Italia Frieze East End Night: Panel discussion with Karen Archey, Annie Jael Kwan and Sarah Shin

A panel discussion chaired by critic and curator Karen Archey, in conversation with curator and researcher Annie Jael Kwan and publisher, curator and writer Sarah Shin.

Digital Archives from the Southeast Asian Art World: Annie Jael Kwan and Farah Wardani

Digital access to collections is an important function of many Southeast Asian art archives. As digital resources and nodes for peer-to-peer sharing, these archives play an important role in seeding new research and cultivating a regional historical consciousness.