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
Anida Yoeu Ali (b.1974, Battambang) is an artist whose works span performance, installation, public encounters, and political agitation. She is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. After residing for over three decades outside of Cambodia, Ali returned to work in Phnom Penh as part of her … Continue reading
April in Paris—the air is still crisp in the late afternoon. People mill around the Trocadéro with its view of the Ei el Tower. A woman, wearing a floor-length red chador covered with sequins, shimmers with each step as she moves near an assembly protesting Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen. At first the demonstrators do not notice her, but as she passes them, a few of them suddenly break away to approach her. They talk excitedly at her and take photos. She bows deeply. Continue reading
