Swimming in Rivers of Glue

The series Belle Époque of the Tropics by Noara Quintana has as its background the history of the rubber industrialization in North of Brazil...

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...

The record price paid online for a painting has increased tenfold this year, and with a series of eye-catching art fairs and auctions over the next couple of months, it could be broken yet again....

“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...

Interested in role-play and videogames, Ana María Millán developed workshops with different communities in order to create characters and scenarios for her animations, often in collaboration with a choreographer...

Coproduced between KADIST and Sharjah Art Foundation in the context of Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present , Farah Al Qasimi’s Um Al Dhabaab (Mother of Fog) challenges colonial myths upheld by Western academia and the lingering imperialist interests at play across Asia’s modern-day trade hubs...

Bringing you the best of Berlin Fashion Week AW24 Womenswear | Dazed ⬅️ Left Arrow *️⃣ Asterisk ⭐ Star Option Sliders ✉️ Mail Exit Fashion Feature From Sia Arnika and SF 1 OG, to Shayne Oliver’s Anonymous Club, here’s everything that went down at the German city’s fashion fair 10 February 2024 Text Elliot Hoste Berlin Fashion Week AW24 35 It might have been founded 17 years ago, but Berlin Fashion Week is a relative newborn in comparison to its Big Four siblings...

This week, Artsy Insider shares key insights from “Art Collecting 2021: An Artsy Report.”...

'Son mai' – the painstaking Vietnamese art of lacquer painting (via Tuoi Tre News) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles December 3, 2018 Once chiefly employed in the decoration of wooden objects, son mai , or lacquer painting, has grown over the last century into a freestanding art form in Vietnam, to a point where it is now widely considered to be the country’s national painting technique...

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...

Die Siedlung is a filmic documentary about the recent shift in housing developments in Leipzig-Grünau in former East Germany and its consequences on some inhabitants...

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...

‘The Taste of Things’ Review: A Moving Tale of Love and Food | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer upper waypoint Arts & Culture Food, Glorious Food (and Other Pleasures) in ‘The Taste of Things’ Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press Feb 8 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email Benoit Magimel and Juliette Binoche in ‘The Taste of Things.’ (Stéphanie Branchu/ IFC Films via AP) The Taste of Things should come with a warning: Audiences may be tempted to abandon work as they know it and start a beautiful, calm new life in the French countryside devoted to the culinary arts...

Corey McCorkle’s 2016 installation Pendulum is developed around the Cavendish family and their role in importing bananas to Europe...

FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice | Ibraaz Contemporary Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East Home Platform Essays Interviews Projects Channel Reviews Publications News About Sign up Quick search Go Author Keyword Search archive Title Platform 010: Where to Now? Shifting Regional Dynamics and Cultural Production in North Africa and the Middle East 009: What are the genealogies of performance art in North Africa and the Middle East? 008: How do we productively map the historical and contemporary relationships that exist between North Africa, the Middle East and the Global South? 007: What is the future of arts infrastructures and audiences across North Africa and the Middle East? 006: What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a critical and culturally located art history? 005: How has a globalised cultural economy affected the production of contemporary visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East? 004: With the benefit of hindsight, what role does new media play in artistic practices, activism, and as an agent for social change in the Middle East and North Africa today? 003: Can Artistic Practices Negotiate the Demands of Cultural Institutions, Public Space, and Civil Society? 002: What relationship does visual culture have to the world we live in? 001: What do we need to know about the MENA region today? Published between and Publications FIELD MEETING Take 4: Thinking Practice Online Programme 010_05 / 28 October 2016 Tags Curatorial Practice Conference Chapters in this series Introduction Curatorial Narrative Speaker Biographies + Synopses Programme / Schedule Closing Remarks Responses Video documentation Day 1 Video documentation Day 2 Most Viewed Halim El Dabh An Alternative Genealogy of Musique Concrète Fari Bradley Sous les Pavés, la Plage On Assumption and Authority David Birkin Now Where? On Navigating Without a Compass Stephanie Bailey The North of the South and the West of the East A Provocation to the Question Walter D...

“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...

The 2024 Puppy Bowl: Team Fluff, Team Ruff Go Head-to-Head | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer upper waypoint The Do List The 20th Annual Puppy Bowl Pits Team Fluff Against Team Ruff — and Everyone Wins Mark Kennedy, Associated Press Feb 7 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email Some of the adorable participants in this year's Puppy Bowl...

Walking Alongside “BITTEN: return to our roots” | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Asrari Nasir of Paradise Pictures December 19, 2018 By Teo Xiao Ting (1,420 words, seven-minute read) Taking a right turn towards Camp Kilo Charcoal Lounge (formerly Sam Tat Building) at Kampong Bugis, I spot a crew member sweeping the rainwater from the late afternoon downpour clear from the path that I will later walk on...

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...