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: 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
On 29 March 2018, artist Ada Xiaoyu Hao will present a new performance, The Mask of Sanity at the Stuart Hall Library, for the first Research Network event of the new programme, ‘Duties of Self Care’. This performance brings together themes of bodily trauma, othering, technologies and her experience as a diasporic student, through a … Continue reading
Srey Bandaul (b. 1973, Battambang, Cambodia) studied with the French artist Veronique Decrop from 1987 until 1991 in an art school she founded at Site 2 Camp on the Thai border. This school moved to Battamabang in 1994 and was established as Phare Ponleu Selpak with Decrop and nine Cambodian artists, including Bandaul. … Continue reading
Deadline for Paper abstracts: 31 May 2018
The list of panels for this year’s ASEASUK conference in Leeds, 5-7 September 2018 is now available. Dr Eva Bentcheva (Tate Research Centre: Asia) and I are co-convening the panel “Documentation and Performative Practices in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art”. Continue reading
Roger Nelson is an art historian and independent curator, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2017, with his thesis titled “Modernity and Contemporaneity in ‘Cambodian Arts’ After Independence.” Roger’s research approaches modern and contemporary arts of Southeast Asia from interdisciplinary perspectives, grounded … Continue reading
Amy Lee Sanford is a sculptor whose work explores the relationship between trauma and healing. Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1972 and raised in the United States, the artist holds a degree from Brown University in the Visual Arts. Sanford has been in numerous collective exhibitions internationally. A partial list includes Cascade (solo exhibition, … Continue reading
