Alongside the weekend of Frieze in London, Asia-Art-Activism held a three-day programme of activities at Raven Row. On the first day, I shared a screening programme of performance videos from Southeast Asia. Gesturing the Region This series of videos brings together performances that manifest a sense of the spatial via the gesture … Continue reading
Date/Time: 31 August 2018, 6.30-8.30pm Venue: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS Please come and join Asia-Art-Activism’s second ever ‘Sharing Session’ at Raven Row, London. This month’s session will focus on practices including the curatorial, infra-structural, research driven and aesthetic. Artist Bettina Fung will present her interest in ‘lines, movement and connections’ and the idea … Continue reading
Tucked within the Pitt Rivers Museum, founded in 1884 by archaeologist General Pitt Rivers and geared towards archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, is the modest Special Exhibitions gallery where “Uganda Stories” was installed. The show is Oxford-based artist and curator Sunil Shah’s personal artistic project that attempts to recover familial narratives of loss, while experimenting with … Continue reading
Exhibition dates: 16 September – 18 November 2018 Opening weekend: Saturday 15 September 2018 17:00: Official opening, featuring a new performance by artist Noel Ed De Leon. Sunday 16 September: Opening conference. Framer Framed, Amsterdam The group exhibition brings together works by internationally established and emerging artists who have deep connections to Southeast Asia, while … Continue reading
Thank you to the Live Art Development Agency for hosting us on 15 June 2018, Friday, for our initial consultation meeting. It was good to meet up and share thoughts on how to our shared interests, needs and how we might be and work together. Thank you, everyone, for the lovely energy! Continue reading
Date/Time: 15 June 2018, 10.00-12.45 Friday Venue: Live Art Development Agency, The Garrett Centre, 117A Mansford Street, London E2 6LX The Asia-Art-Activism Research Network is a crossdisciplinary and intergenerational group of artists, curators, academics and writers investigating Asian art and activism in the UK. Taking into account the variegated representations of Asian diaspora, migrant and … Continue reading
Dana Langlois is an Artistic Director and curator with a background in visual arts. For more than 16 years, she has been actively involved in curating, researching and producing contemporary arts in Cambodia. Her focus has been in Cambodia where she works with Cambodian and diaspora artists in a time of intense creativity and reconstruction … Continue reading
