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
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
Please come and join us this Friday (27th July 7 to 8.30/9pm) when we will be hosting our first Researcher-In-Residence Sharing Session with Will Pham and Matthew Wang. Both artists are in residence at the Raven Row Asia-Art-Activism space from 9th July to 31st August 2018. The sharing sessions are a way for researchers to … 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
Date|Time: 9 June 2017, 10.00am-6.00pm Performance Sites: Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice, Italy & various outdoor locations. Artists: Libita Clayton, Lynn Lu, Paul Maheke, Boedi Widjaja In response to the critical themes explored by the artists of the Tactical Interventions: Diaspora Pavilion exhibition, MAP1: WATERWAYS presents a day of indoor and outdoor performances activating sites alongside water. … Continue reading
First presented in 2015 at Tate Britain under the title “Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past” the show’s October 2016 debut at the National Gallery Singapore (NGS), entitled “Artist and Empire: (En)countering Colonial Legacies” is curated by the local team comprised of Low Sze Wee, Melinda Susanto and Toffa Abdul Wahed, marking the NGS’s second international collaboration (the first was with Paris’s Centre Pompidou). Continue reading
