Mirrored Interrogations
about 75 months ago (11/08/2018)
Mirrored Interrogations | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 8, 2018 By Eunice Lacaste (1000 words, four-minute read) In post-colonial Southeast Asia, the constraint of politically-engaged artworks is not uncommon. One can see the spatial and temporal struggles through telling cases from the region: last July, Seven Decades was a retrospective of political prisoners’ narratives in and out of Myanmar that was aptly shown at the Pyinsa Rasa Art Space in the Secretariat building. In the same month of 1947, the building was the site for the political killings just before the British transferred power to the local government.