2019 Theses

Category - thesis
Name: Abdul Hafiiz Bin Abdul Karim Thesis Title: What the Hack? A Queer Exploration of New Media Art Collectives in Indonesia Thesis Abstract: Technological progress in Indonesia raises questions regarding the extent to which Indonesians are dealing with the impact of new media. This dissertation aims to develop a queer lens through which we can engage with the complexities of digital culture. By Read more....

Biennales: An Asian Renarration

Category - annual lecture 2019
Professor Anthony Gardner will deliver the 8th MA Asian Art Histories Annual Lecture on 28 March 2019 Thursday 28 March 2019 7.00pm-9.00pm Block F Level 2 #F202 LASALLE College of the Arts 1 McNally Street Free admission (on a first-come first-served basis) RSVP: theresa.tan@lasalle.edu.sg In Biennials, Triennials, and documenta, Charles Green and Anthony Gardner narrate a history Read more....

Art and Action : Contemporary Art and Discourse in Southeast Asia

Category - events
Art and Action is an international art history conference that critically examines the development of art practices in Southeast Asia from the 1970s to the present. It focuses on the role of artists and artworks as social conduits, with the aim of generating discourses specific to the contexts and conditions of the region. New modes of artistic production have come to the fore in Southeast Asia Read more....

Anna Koshcheeva (Graduated in 2018)

Category - alumni
Anna is interested in the ways global ideologies intersect with vernacular agency and Buddhist subjectivities in spaces of national imagination and visual arts. Her approaches are informed by cultural histories, theories of decolonization, political modernities and an iconographic analysis. She advances research and critical thinking on visual arts of one of the least studied counties in Southeast Read more....

Noorshidah Binte Ibrahim (Graduated in 2018)

Category - alumni
Noorshidah is a visual art educator with 12 years of teaching experience. She has a BA with Honours in (Western) Art History and an immense passion for academic writing and research work. For years, she had to put her interest on hold to focus on classroom teaching. It took the setting up and running of two art galleries as part of her portfolio at work to re-awaken these inclinations that had laid Read more....