Curating and Exhibiting Asian Diaspora Artists: Forum and Book Talk

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Online event Monday, 2 November 2020, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Since the 1980s, there has been a significant rise in the number of exhibitions and trans-national projects that presented diaspora as a theme or featured diasporic artists, including, most recently, DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, which was held at MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Read more....

2020 Theses

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Name: Alison Marrinan Thesis Title: Water and Society through the Eco-aesthetics of Contemporary Art in the Mekong Region Thesis Abstract This thesis investigates, through a political ecology lens, how contemporary artists Lim Sokchanlina, Khvay Samnang, Bounpaul Phothyzan and Korakrit Arunanondchai variously question three prominent realms of power – neoliberalism, anthropogenic climate change Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Taipei Study Trip 2019

Category - overseas study trips
by Nurdiana Rahmat and Theresa Tan On 18 March 2020, Taiwan made the announcement that all foreign nationals will be barred from entering the country. This is the new reality we are living in the thick of the global coronavirus pandemic. It is hard to believe now that just about four months ago, at the end of November, the Asian Art Histories students were in Taiwan and experiencing one of the most Read more....

The Journey of Minds: Chinese Modernity and Chinese Ink Painting in Singapore

Category - essays and articles
by Dr Woo Fook Wah – Click here to view PDF. Description Dr Woo graduated from the MA Asian Art Histories Programme in 2014. This paper is an outcome of the Chinese Art and Cultural Research Grant, which is a collaboration between the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and the MA Asian Art Histories Programme. Dr Woo is the first recipient of the grant. Read more....

MA Asian Art Histories Forum: Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia

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MA Asian Art Histories Forum: Riff, Reprise, Replica: Re-enacting Exhibitions in Southeast Asia Speakers Charmaine Toh Dr Michelle Antoinette Dr Seng Yu Jin Moderator Jeffrey Say Monday,9 Sept 2019,7:00pm – 9:00pm Lecture Theatre, Block F Level 2 #F202, LASALLE. Free admission. RSVP: nurdiana.rahmat@mylasalle.edu.sg While exhibition histories have been gaining attention as Read more....