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Welling employs simple materials like crumpled aluminum foil, wrinkled fabric and pastry dough and directly exposes them as photograms, playing with the image in the process of revealing it. Although Welling’s approach to photography is more conceptually oriented than poetic, the resulting image in Stowe (a direct photogram of a crumpled piece of cloth) somehow resembles a curtain, perhaps suggesting that an artificial even fictive component in photographic representation. While the curtain might echo other imagery, Welling’s approach is not allegorical but rather abstract in a way that reinforces the materiality of the object.
James Welling has a long-standing interest in pushing the technical and conceptual boundaries of photography. His practice takes photographic norms or the representational field itself as its subject and, through material or digital manipulations, Welling investigates abstraction, turning everyday space or mundane objects into something uncanny but poetic.
In Dark Beyond Deep by Zhu Changquan the film presents the process of how consciousness gradually develops and extends from the real world to virtual space through a raven named Cyma...
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: New Filipina superhero; capturing seniors of Saigon; refugee kids in Penang musical | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Photo: School of The Arts, USM September 5, 2019 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources, so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
“Cloth as Land” at JMKAC Presents Textiles as a Wellspring of Hmong Indigeneity Skip to content Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj, “I sat closely and watched it crumble and unraveled and crumbled and unraveled and...” (2023), Coca-Cola can and embroidery thread (image courtesy the artist) HMong* indigeneity is complicated by centuries of political conflicts, displacement, erasure, and disorientation in HMong homelands of China and Southeast Asia...
South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....
Life off the beaten track: 32 years in a remote, car-free village on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island | South China Morning Post Life off the beaten track: 32 years in a remote, car-free village on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island Books and literature A cartoonist and writer waxes lyrical about his rural village and its colourful local characters, and how little has changed in his 32 years there Larry Feign + FOLLOW Published: 7:15am, 3 Feb, 2024 Why you can trust SCMP Half a lifetime ago, I moved to Wang Tong, on Lantau Island...
Growing up Everywhere and Nowhere in “Peter and the Starcatcher” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng October 22, 2018 By Teo Xiao Ting (1,300 words, seven-minute read) What does it mean to be a child? Specifically, what does it mean to be growing up, to be young, in this milieu? While set in the sepia of 1885, Peter and the Starcatcher by Pangdemonium asks questions that still resonate now, opening up to an extended session of make-believe to present the origin story of a Boy who detests all “grown-ups.” The story comes dusted in “starstuff,” a coveted substance that literally came from the stars, and has the magic to grant wishes...
How do we make Black archives within western contexts? In this roundtable discussion, representatives from Afropea (France), Black Cultural Archives (UK), the Black Queer Archives (Netherlands) and Black Archives Sweden will discuss their various approaches to autonomy, infrastructure, economics, and sustainability in creating and maintaining Black archives within Europe...
The series Belle Époque of the Tropics by Noara Quintana has as its background the history of the rubber industrialization in North of Brazil...
Head Box by J ean-Luc Moulène i s not the representation of a space but a real space that remains in the domain of sculpture which the artist develops in parallel with his photographic practice...
biarritzzz is interested in how the development of the internet, and experimentation in the virtual world happens simultaneously with the experimentation in the material world of the human species; and how these developments reflect the precariousness of life within neoliberalism...
Abel Rodríguez’s precise, botanical illustrations are drawn from memory and knowledge acquired by oral traditions...
“Peter and the Starcatcher”: An Invitation to Suspend Disbelief Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 22, 2018 By Casidhe Ng (1,100 words, six-minute read) The final show of Pangdemonium’s 2018 season, Peter and the Starcatcher is this year’s equivalent of Fun Home or RENT , an exuberant and expensive production intent on ending their year with a bang...
Vandy Rattana’s Bomb Ponds series was made following a transformative encounter with the craters left over from 2,756,941 tons of bombs dropped by U...
The Pudic Relation between Machine and Plant shows a looped scene where a robotic hand touches a “sensitive plant” — Mimosa Pudica, a species characteristic for closing on itself when touched...
Weekly Picks: Indonesia (4 - 10 March 2019) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do March 4, 2019 Top Picks of Indonesia art events in Jakarta, Surabaya and Bali from 4-10 March 2019 In order to understand the contemporary art and society, we have to take our understanding beyond the principles of modernism...