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Tanatchai Bandasak
Central Region by Tanatchai Bandasak is a meditation on materiality and time-based media centres on the mysterious, prehistoric ‘standing stones’ of Hintang in Northern Laos: little-studied megaliths which have survived thousands of years of political change and the cataclysmic carpet-bombing of Laos by the United States during the Cold War. In Bandasak’s unpretentious, animist portrait of the ruins, what is remarkable is the absence of the embodied observer, instead, it is the technical parsing of the digital video camera that enlivens these prodigiously still, mute and enduring objects, through a chanceless sequence of static shots, dissolving measure and revealing gradual modulations of light. The piece evokes a spectral landscape energised by the undead and the nonhuman, opening up contemporary philosophical questions via seemingly ageless and inert artifacts.
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Slavs and Tatars
Wheat Mollah ( 2011) is one of Slavs and Tatars composite object. The title Wheat Mollah has various interpretations, from “master” or spiritual authority for Shiites and “friend” for Sunnis. The turban is also worn in a diversity of cultures and religions in Africa, Asia and India.
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Kwan Sheung Chi
A Flags-Raising-Lowering Ceremony at my home’s cloths drying rack (2007) was realized in the year of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. The artist asked his parents to perform a flags-raising-lowering ceremony on their home’s cloths drying rack, with the HKSAR regional flag, and the flags of PRC and The UK. Artist Lee Kit hand-painted the HKSAR regional flag following the detail instructions in “The State’s Standards of The People’s Republic of China, GB16689-1996”, issued by The State Authority of Technical Monitoring.
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Tatsuki Masaru
For the works KAKERA, Bullet Train and KAKERA, Loving God Tatsuki Masaru traveled throughout Japan to visit museums holding kakera (which translates to “fragments”) of Jomon Period potteries –Japan’s pre-history 2,300-15,000 years ago. Small and fragile, the kakera were donated by farmers who had found them in their fields, or by archeologists, and then wrapped in newspapers and stored away. Today they sit quietly on the shelves of museums, unknown to people.
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Andrew Norman Wilson
Chase ATM emitting blue smoke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD Bank ATM emitting green smoke was shot in the American Southwest at Mid-century modern architectural structures that were built to house regional independent banks and have since been bought up by Chase, Bank of America, and TD Bank. The video utilizes transparency and opacity effects in multimedia software to question the perceptibility of finance. It offers a complex metaphor (toxic assets, emergency flares, house/mortgage on fire) about the financial sector and the effects of the ‘crisis’ that led to the disappearance (and the ghostly memory) of many local and regional banks.
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Tenzing Rigdol
Unhealed by Tenzing Rigdol is a photograph of the artist’s back tattooed with a map of Tibet with the dates of important political events. Each date and region is marked with a needle, a reference to the traditional Chinese medicine method for treating ailments, used to mark the regions and dates of major uprisings and mass protests as a means of encouraging dialogue and to start the recovery process. Millions of Tibetans have died in those protests.
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Musquiqui Chihying
The Sculpture by Musquiqui Chihying comprises a two-channel lecture performance and a photograph. The video begins with 2017 footage of French president Emmanuel Macron announcing his commitment to the restitution of French-held African objects looted during the colonial era. Moving through the video, the artist’s voice narrates over archival images and videos, explaining how so many African artifacts came into the possession of European museums.
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William E. Jones
His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training. Using a still camera to compose the fifty images of the series, Jones turns his lens on the vernacular architecture of California’s southern region, looking at the iconic and idiosyncratic spaces that define a region. William E. Jones is a filmmaker, writer, and artist whose interests lie in the circulation of images—images that are broadcast, images that are hidden, and images that become imbedded in our collective consciousness.
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Enrique Ramirez
In Un Hombre que Camina (A Man Walking) (2011-2014), the sense of rhythm and timing is overpowered by the colossal sense of timelessness of this peculiar place. Shot in Uyuni, Bolivia, the film depcits world’s largest salt flat, a site that sits in a mountainous region at over twelve thousand feet above sea level. Ramirez’s work is deeply invested in the loss of regional identity, and the anachronistic dress of his “modern-day shaman” in the film is meant to reconcile the historical and cultural gaps between tribal traditions of a specific time and place and the all-too-prevalent homogeneity brought on by advanced capitalism.
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Nohemí Pérez
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A rich and isolated region, El Catatumbo is located near the border with Venezuela. Different groups fight over its gold and oil, while narcotic plantations have exploited the region over the years, provoking massacres, displacement, and migrations amongst its native populations. Nohemí Pérez’s skillful and eloquent watercolors, titled Apuntes para panorama Catatumbo , testifies to this aspect of Colombia’s history that has been veiled by other equally pressing political issues.
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Clarisse Hahn
Prisons is part of a series of videos, entitled Our Body is a Weapon , representing individuals who affirm the body as a place of political and social resistance. In this video, two young women used their bodies as a weapon of war, participating in a hunger strike in Turkish prisons in the year 2000. This hunger strike was violently repressed by the army.
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Clarisse Hahn
Les princes de la rue by Clarisse Hahn is part of Boyzone , a long term project in which the artist observes how men’s bodies reflect their relationships to public and private spaces. Hahn’s photographs move beyond gazing at the Other; they demonstrate how outcast, among themselves, can reproduce the gaze that is cast on them as a means of expression. As such, this series makes space for Hahn’s subjects to intimately express their strength, fragility, and pain, as well as their history.
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Taloi Havini
Following her family’s political exile to Australia in 1990, Havini began to document her journey’s home to the north of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. Reflecting on the still visible aftermath of conflict and changing economic factors, Havini creates traditional beroana or shell money from extracted earth materials only found on Solomon islands like Bougainville. Havini’s whirling assemblage of ceramic discs emulate the strings of shell money (still valid around the Pacific as system of payments) to examine the economic changes that occurred in her homeland.
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Nikita Kadan
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East of Ukraine became a place of armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists, who proclaimed parts of (the) Donetsk and Lughansk oblast (administrative region in Ukrainian) to be ‘People’s republics’. This region, in conflict since spring 2014, is where most of the charcoal is extracted. It is with this same coal that artist Nikita Kadan realizes this drawing in 2018, representing a field on which is juxtaposed a small photograph.
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Andrés Pereira Paz
Juan III (Pescadores En Una Isla) is a series of embroideries made with fake pre-Columbian fabrics produced by the Gonzales family, a three-generation family of pre-Columbian textile “forgers” based in Lima, Peru. The members of this family (grandfather, father, and son) all bear the name of Juan and make replicas by hand using traditional methods nearly indistinguishable from the pieces made thousands of years ago. A forgery pretends to be something it is not, but the Gonzalez family’s textiles openly intend to recreate those discovered in the 1920s at a necropolis in Peru.
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Julio Cesar Morales
The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California. Reenacted here is Vallejo’s acquiescence to Americans who were attempting to overthrow Mexican governance of the region. When a small militia arrived at Vallejo’s house to arrest him, he invited them in and shared a meal.
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Marepe
Marepe (an acronym for Marcos Reis Peixoto) is from northeastern Brazil, and his sculptures and installations are steeped in its culture, traditions, festivals; his personal memories associated with his birthplace; and his interactions with European culture. Periquitos (Parakeets, 2005) is a cartoonlike giant television with a screen made of four vertical strips of blue, yellow, green, and red acetate. There is a recurring figure on the screen, which is taken from a photograph of the artist at age six.
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Adriana Martínez
Her work Al final del arcoiris (At the end of the rainbow, 2015) is a bundle of bills from Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, arranged by color to form a tight spiraling rainbow held close with a rubber band. Here, Martinez uses these various currencies to gesture towards questions of capital and value, the accumulation of wealth, and regional economies. Beneath the surface of her playful visual propositions, Martinez asks us to consider not only the monetary costs of international goods, but also the real, human consequences of a global economic culture that privileges some and devastates others.
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Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017. The BRI is a strategy that was set forth by China in 2013 to expand its influence by building a network of economic corridors around the globe. BRI projects in Nepal include the Kathmandu-Kerung Railway, the Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung 400 kilovolt transmission line, the 762 megawatt Tamor hydroelectric dam, and the 426 megawatt Phukot Karnali run-of-the-river hydropower project.
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Sammy Baloji
Part-skyscraper, part-pyramid, part-citadel, this unfinished and ragged twelve-story building stands, incongruously, among the industrial environment of Limete. Towering above this desultory landscape and defying gravitational laws and urban zoning rules, this uncommon architectural proposition forms one of the strangest and most enigmatic landmarks of the city. A giant question mark, it begs for profound reflection on the nature of the city, the heritage of its colonial modernist architecture, the dystopian nature of its infrastructure, and the capacity for utopian urban dreams and lines of flight that it nonetheless continues to generate.
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Erbossyn Meldibekov
Game (Six Pieces) by Erbossyn Meldibekov is inspired by the popular Rubik’s cube puzzle and is composed of three colors (red, green and white) instead of six, referencing the colors of the Afghan flag. The work provides a revisionist interpretation of the legacy of The Great Game (the original 19th-century standoff between Russian and British empires over Afghanistan), and Afghanistan’s position as a centerpiece of the longstanding War on Terror, (the military campaign led by the United States and their allies against organizations and regimes they identified as terrorists after 9/11). Game (Six Pieces) mobilizes dark humor and irony to illustrate the complex and unstable relationships between communism, Islam, and American and British imperialism.
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Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper
Addressing the legacy of colonialism, The Guestbook by Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper is a slow-paced, black-and-white film exploring the German colony of Togoland, now the Republic of Togo. The guestbook in question—a thin, battered copy that Do Do, the Togolese protagonist of the film, finds in Berlin’s State Library—is filled with the signatures of colonial-era explorers. The plot follows Do Do as he seeks out Treptower Park, where the JAZZ musician Kwassi Bruce was once exhibited in a human zoo in the first German Colonial Exhibition.
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Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017. The BRI is a strategy that was set forth by China in 2013 to expand its influence by building a network of economic corridors around the globe. BRI projects in Nepal include the Kathmandu-Kerung Railway, the Galchhi-Rasuwagadhi-Kerung 400 kilovolt transmission line, the 762 megawatt Tamor hydroelectric dam, and the 426 megawatt Phukot Karnali run-of-the-river hydropower project.
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Dana Kavelina
Letter to a Turtledove by Dana Kavelina is a short film based on a poem written by the artist. Delivered as a monologue and presented with subtitles, the poem encapsulates the traumas, grievances, horrors, dreams, and hallucinations that have descended upon Ukraine’s Donbass region since its invasion by Russia in 2014. Appropriating amateur footage shot during the war in the Donbass region, Kavelina’s film weaves sound and image into a poignant tapestry that considers the absurdity of war.
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Li Jinghu
Benefiting from its geographic proximity to Hong Kong, since the 1980s Dongguan has become the factory of the world, with toys, plastic products and clothing as the major industries in the town. During its heyday, the region produced 50% of the world’s manufactured toys, but since 2008, the toy industry has declined as the factories moved to South East Asia. Archaeology of the Present (Dongguan) No.
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Noara Quintana
The series Belle Époque of the Tropics by Noara Quintana has as its background the history of the rubber industrialization in North of Brazil. The so-called Amazon Rubber Boom, 1879 to 1912, was an important part of the economic and social history of the country and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, related to the extraction and commercialization of latex. Centered in the Amazon river basin, the boom resulted in a large expansion of European colonization in the area, causing cultural and social transformations that wreaked havoc upon Indigenous societies and immense environmental damage.
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
In Guardian 2 Naufus Ramírez Figueroa explores the historical memory and political reality of the ruins of Kawinal, an archeological site of postclassic Mayan culture that was flooded in order to construct the hydroelectric dam of Chixoy in 1975 in a supposed effort to bring electricity to the country. However, the reality was that the communities living in the area faced the swamping of their lands and properties, and endured the loss of their sacred sites. Those who refused to relocate became the victims—many of which were women and children—of what came to be known as the 1982 massacre of Río Negro at the hands of the military, the spectral traces of which still pervade behind the natural and cultural landscape of the region.
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Taus Makhacheva
For Taus Makhacheva, the wild, untamed side of human nature is often the foundation of many of her formal investigations. A leading voice of the younger generation based in Moscow, Makhacheva works with sculpture and installation while her preferred medium remains video. Her Dagestani (Northern Caucasian) roots draw her to this rugged land as her site of choice for many of her works.
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Wang Tuo
Distorting Words is the second chapter of The Northeast Tetralogy , a film project that Wang Tuo began in 2017. The project is a unique regional research of Northeastern China that addresses the region’s geopolitical contentions. Drawing on significant moments from China’s modern history, Wang’s visual storytelling sets up and displaces a series of socio-historical situations through multiple narrative structures.
Xyza Cruz Bacani
Xyza Cruz Bacani is a Filipina author and photographer who uses documentary-style photography to call attention to less visible, erased, and under-reported global events...
Subas Tamang
Part of the Indigenous Tamsaling community in Nepal, Subas Tamang comes from a family of traditional stone carvers...
Wang Tuo
Through film, performance, painting, and drawing, artist Wang Tuo interweaves disparate realities through archives, modern history, myth, and literature...
Kwan Sheung Chi
Kwan Sheung Chi obtained a third honor B.A...
Du Zhenjun
- location: Paris, France
- location: Shanghai, China
- year born: 1961
- gender: male
- nationality: Chinese
- home town: Shanghai, China
Zhang Kechun
Photographer Zhang Kechun documents striking scenery that meditates on the significance of landscape in modern Chinese national identity...
Kubra Khademi
Afghani artist Kubra Khademi uses her practice to explore her experiences as both a refugee and as a woman...
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige collaborate as both filmmakers and artists, producing cinematic and visual artwork that intertwine, spanning feature and documentary films, video and photographic installations, sculpture, performance lectures and texts...
Victor & Sergiy Kochetov
Viktor Kochetov became engaged in photography in 1968 and was also a professional photographer in film and photo laboratories...
Clarisse Hahn
Through her films, photographs and video installations, Clarisse Hahn continues a documentary research on communities, behavioral codes and the social role of the body...
Rocky Cajigan
Rocky Cajigan is a Bontoc Igorot artist working in the contemporary contexts of Indigenous people from the Cordilleras region in the northern state of Luzon island in the Philippines...
Nontawat Numbenchapol
Nontawat Numbenchapol is primarily known as a film director and television screenwriter, widely recognized for his documentary work...
Khvay Samnang
Khvay Samnang’s work critically examines the interlocking nature of ritual and politics, the humanitarian and ecological impacts of globalization, colonialism and migration, and the cultural-material histories of exchange that have shaped the Southeast Asia region...
Walid Raad
Walid Raad is a Lebanese artist whose work investigates the way historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and memory...
Andrei Monastyrski
Artist, poet, writer and theoretician...
Troy Chew
Spanning painting, drawing, and sculpture, Troy Chew’s practice reflects on the legacy of the African diaspora through the lens of urban culture...
Risham Syed
Risham Syed has a diverse art practice in which painting and other mediums are used to explore issues of history, sociology, and politics...
Kent Chan
As an artist, curator, and filmmaker; Kent Chan’s practice revolves around encounters with art, fiction, and cinema that form a trio of practices porous in form, content, and context...
Jeamin Cha
Jeamin Cha’s questions exist in the gyre between individual and social environment, stepping over conspicuous strands of relation between the two in favor of cultivating characters that dwell in the night, under-noticed or otherwise surplus figures outside of mainstream societal representation...
Mercedes Dorame
Mercedes Dorame is a photographer and member of the Tongva tribe in Los Angeles...
Andrew Norman Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary...
Ahmad Fuad Osman
Ahmad Fuad Osman is of a generation that came of age in a Malay world whose artists were eager to speak about socio-political issues on terms that broadened questions of nationhood, ethnicity, faith, and historical fact, doubtful of the grand narrative that had been propounded since the race riots of the late 1960s...
Musquiqui Chihying
Through his artistic career, Musquiqui Chihying has striven to dislocate and reconstruct established modes of behavior within systems and structures of power...
Tadasu Takamine
Tadasu Takamine is one of the most controversial, thought provoking, and irreverent media, video and installation artist working in Japan...
Erbossyn Meldibekov
Through drawing, installation, painting, photography, and video, Erbossyn Meldibekov’s practice examines architecture, monumentality, and value systems in the public domain...
Voluspa Jarpa
Voluspa Jarpa’s work is based upon a meticulous analysis of political, historical, and social documents from Chile and other Latin American countries, which she uses to develop a reflection on the concept of memory...
Hao Liang
The work of Hao Liang reimagines and explores the sublime of contemporary ecological landscapes...
Taus Makhacheva
Taus Makhacheva’s performance and video works critically examine what happens when different cultures, traditions come into contact with one another...
Rodney Graham
- location: Vancouver, Canada
- year born: 1949
- gender: male
- nationality: Canadian
- home town: Vancouver, Canada
Yogesh Barve
Yogesh Barve (b...
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about 11 months ago (02/01/2024)
Tate Modern announce new partnership with Asymmetry Art Foundation - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 1 February 2024 Share — Tate Modern © Tate Photography Tate Modern has announced today a new partnership with Asymmetry Art Foundation enabling Alvin Li to be appointed to the role of Curator, International Art and Hera Chan to be appointed Adjunct Curator, Asia-Pacific ...
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The historic village of Bat Trang in northern Vietnam has been a hub for ceramic production since the 11th century...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
A Soon-to-Open Private Museum in Chinaâs Shunde District Could Offer a New Model for Arts Spaces in the Country - via ARTnews...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
How Collectors in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan Are Shaping Their Countriesâ Art Scenes - via ARTnews...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
As the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture debuts, its founder hopes to inspire a renaissance in a region of California lacking public arts funding....
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
BEIRUT: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, museums, galleries and art fairs around the world have launched sophisticated virtual tours, often paired with the hashtags #MuseumFromHome and #ClosedButOpen, to offer a much-needed path to calm, reflection and enlightenment...
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about 27 months ago (10/05/2022)
The Donum Estate, the award-winning Pinot Noir producer featuring a monumental sculpture collection located in the acclaimed wine region of Sonoma County, has commissioned award-winning Danish architect and designer David Thulstrup to transform Donum Home...
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about 36 months ago (01/11/2022)
We're Hiring! Editorial and Marketing Assistant (Regionally-based) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints January 11, 2022 ArtsEquator Ltd...
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about 42 months ago (07/14/2021)
Can the arts solve community issues in the region? The SEA*5 think so...
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about 52 months ago (10/01/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: The artist who wants the Rafflesia; Thai colourful culture | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar John Clewley October 1, 2020 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...
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about 54 months ago (08/06/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Hikayat Raja Babi; new media and freedom | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Varuth Hirunyatheb August 6, 2020 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...
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about 62 months ago (12/11/2019)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Regional take on arty banana; arts centre on Fish Island | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Via Marketing Interactive December 11, 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...
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about 73 months ago (01/18/2019)
After a century of false dawns, the film industry is beginning to rise (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles HBO Asia’s horror series Halfworlds sets ancient supernatural folklore in nocturnal modern-day Jakarta Photo: HBO Asia January 18, 2019 The rollercoaster ride of Indonesia’s film industry is currently cresting yet another hill in its bumpy, twisting history...
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about 73 months ago (01/14/2019)
Female artists, art biennial to grace National Gallery this year (via The Jakarta Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Splash: Prelude II (2015) by Kinez Riza January 15, 2019 Indonesia’s arts scene is by no means lacking, yet most of its big names are men, with notable female artists largely unexplored...
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about 73 months ago (01/05/2019)
Indonesia at the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (via New Mandala) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Zico Albaiquni, b.1987 Indonesia: "When it Shook–The Earth stood Still (After Pirous), 2018...
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about 73 months ago (12/27/2018)
What to expect from the Repertory Philippines stage in 2019 (via Rappler) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo by Steph Arnaldo/Rappler December 27, 2018 MANILA, Philippines – Theater junkies of all ages will be happy to know that our local theater scene has some top-notch stage entertainment up its talented sleeve for everyone to enjoy in 2019...
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about 74 months ago (12/10/2018)
Eleven New Elements from the Asia-Pacific Region Inscribed on the List of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar December 10, 2018 Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed eleven elements from the Asia-Pacific region on the Lists of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage...
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about 74 months ago (12/04/2018)
ENCATC International Study Tour in Tokyo - Key Observations (via culture360...
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about 75 months ago (11/15/2018)
Plans for the inaugural edition of ART SG, a new significant fair for Singapore and the Southeast Asia region continue to be put into place...
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about 75 months ago (11/07/2018)
Ombak Potehi: the Malaysian group reviving traditional Hokkien puppetry (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 7, 2018 In the performance room of Penang House of Music, a museum dedicated to the musical history of this Unesco-listed Malaysian island, a crowd claps excitedly...
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about 76 months ago (10/19/2018)
Arts Apart: Where Are Sabah and Sarawak in the Malaysian Arts? (via BFM) Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 19, 2018 With Malaysia Day just around the corner, there is a lot of conversation happening about East Malaysia...
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about 76 months ago (09/25/2018)
Cartoonist Zunar on his sedition charges & fight for political reform (via Star2) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 25, 2018 It’s a Saturday afternoon at a major bookstore in the Gardens Mall in Kuala Lumpur...
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about 77 months ago (09/18/2018)
Biennale seen posing challenges for artists (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 18, 2018 The Bangkok Art Biennale beginning on October 19 will have as its theme “Beyond Bliss”...
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about 77 months ago (09/18/2018)
On The Level with Theatre Students of Taiwan and Thailand (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 19, 2018 A new Taiwan-Thailand drama school collaboration is as delectable as pineapple tarts...
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about 77 months ago (09/13/2018)
Getting schooled on the arts (via The Star) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 14, 2018 From surprise visits to schools, replacing white shoes with black, and referencing the Finnish education system as a possible one to emulate, the new Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik has made waves with his fresh approach...
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about 77 months ago (09/12/2018)
Q&A: AO Show Creative Director Tuan Le Had a Vision for Performance Art in Vietnam (via Saigoneer) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 13, 2018 Some may say that modern performance art in Vietnam looks the way it does thanks to the works of Tuan Le and his colleagues...
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about 77 months ago (09/10/2018)
Cambodian FB users rage over dance ownership (via The Nation) | ArtsEquator Skip to content August 31, 2018 18:20 United Nations’ cultural agency Unesco’s Facebook page has hosted a heated debate between Cambodians and Thais over Bangkok’s proposal for the inclusion of “khon” masked dance on the agency’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list...
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about 79 months ago (07/15/2018)
Vietnamese artist wins prestigious Signature Art Prize (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 15, 2018 In a dark room, two suspended video screens play images of rice paddies and derelict schoolrooms in rural Vietnam...
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27 Artists Grapple with the Fractious Politics of Malaysia (via Hyperallergic) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles June 26, 2018 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Petani Semasa is a significant exhibition on contemporary art about the Patani region of Southern Thailand, that privileges local artists...
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1980-1989
Victor & Sergiy Kochetov
1982According to Viktor Kochetov, Meeting with the awaited guest / Yellow Bows is the first hand-colored print he ever made...
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1990-1999
Rodney Graham
1991Ponderosa Pine IV belongs to a series of large-scale photographs of trees taken by Graham and depicts a particular species that live in Northern California...
Andrei Monastyrski
Drawing & Print
1992(Drawing & Print) Aktionsplan is a map of the field by Kyevy Gorky...
Victor & Sergiy Kochetov
1992Ukraine-Russia / Volleyball by Viktor and Sergiy Kochetov features a concrete monument of women volleyball players before the railway station in the village of Vodyanoye, Kharkiv region...
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2000-2009
William E. Jones
2000His series, The Golden State, harkens back to his early career and his photographic training...
Andrei Monastyrski
2006The series “The Golden lines” was started in 1996 and consists of photographs with “spiritual-transport” lines...
Taysir Batniji
2006Fathers #18 and Fathers #27 is part of a series of photographs and videos made in recent years in Gaza...
Kwan Sheung Chi
2007A Flags-Raising-Lowering Ceremony at my home’s cloths drying rack (2007) was realized in the year of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China...
Ahmad Fuad Osman
2007Recollections of Long Lost Memories by Ahmad Fuad Osman is a series of 71 black and white sepia-toned archival photographs that chart, with nostalgia, the social encounters between hierarchies of life in the Malay world...
Julio Cesar Morales
2008The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California...
Walid Raad
Drawing & Print
2009(Drawing & Print) “The Lebanese wars of the past three decades affected Lebanon’s residents physically and psychologically: from the hundred thousand plus who were killed; to the two hundred thousand plus who were wounded; to the million plus who were displaced; to the even more who were psychologically traumatized...
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2010-2019
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
Du Zhenjun
2010The Tower of Babel is an installation of large-format photographs that forces the audience to occupy a central position through its monumental scale...
An-My LE
2010The print Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam (2010) features an Asian Buddhist monk and an American Navy Solider on board the Mercy ship –one of the two dedicated hospital ships of the United States Navy– sitting upright in their chairs and adopting the same posture...
Clarisse Hahn
2011Prisons is part of a series of videos, entitled Our Body is a Weapon , representing individuals who affirm the body as a place of political and social resistance...
Zhang Kechun
2011Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Taus Makhacheva
2012For Taus Makhacheva, the wild, untamed side of human nature is often the foundation of many of her formal investigations...
Kwan Sheung Chi
2012Kwan Sheung Chi’s work One Million is a video work depicting the counting of bills...
Zhang Kechun
2012Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Tadasu Takamine
2012The video work Japan Syndrome is a continuation of his lines of inquiry, taking post-Fukushima Japan as a case study...
Carolina Caycedo
2013In this two-channel video installation, Spaniards Named Her Magdalena, But Natives Called Her Yuma , Carolina Caycedo gathered footage during numerous research trips to dam sites in the Harz Mountains, Saxony, Westphalia and the Black Forest in Germany interspersed with images of the Rio Magdalena region in Colombia...
Yogesh Barve
2013Global? 1 & 2 documents an annual event during which people of a particular religious group gather around Jejuri in Maharashtra, India...
Andrew Norman Wilson
2014Chase ATM emitting blue smoke, Bank of America ATM emitting red smoke, TD Bank ATM emitting green smoke was shot in the American Southwest at Mid-century modern architectural structures that were built to house regional independent banks and have since been bought up by Chase, Bank of America, and TD Bank...
Voluspa Jarpa
2014In her work, Fantasmática Latinoamericana, Jarpa works from photographs of five public funeral processions following the mysterious deaths of five Latin American presidents...
Xyza Cruz Bacani
2014Occupy HK 2014 is a series of 18 photographs that Xyza Cruz Bacani’s shot at the height of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong...
Xyza Cruz Bacani
2014Occupy HK 2014 is a series of 18 photographs that Xyza Cruz Bacani’s shot at the height of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong...
Xyza Cruz Bacani
2014Occupy HK 2014 is a series of 18 photographs that Xyza Cruz Bacani’s shot at the height of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong...
Xyza Cruz Bacani
2014Occupy HK 2014 is a series of 18 photographs that Xyza Cruz Bacani’s shot at the height of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong...
Xyza Cruz Bacani
2014Occupy HK 2014 is a series of 18 photographs that Xyza Cruz Bacani’s shot at the height of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong...
Amor Muñoz
2014Yuca_tech: Energy by Hand is an installation by Amor Muñoz that resulted from a local technology lab in a small village in the Yucatán henequen zone, in the Mayan region of Mexico...
Khvay Samnang
2014The video Rubber Man continues exploring issues related to land use, also noticeable in his Untitled series (2011)...
Thiago Honório
2014Pau-Brasil is a sculpture by Thiago Honório that references Oswald de Andrade’s 1925 classic of Brazilian modernist literature of the same title...
Taloi Havini
2015Following her family’s political exile to Australia in 1990, Havini began to document her journey’s home to the north of Buka Island, in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville...
Adriana Martínez
2015Her work Al final del arcoiris (At the end of the rainbow, 2015) is a bundle of bills from Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, arranged by color to form a tight spiraling rainbow held close with a rubber band...
Sanya Kantarovsky
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) Wrong Currency (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) by Sanya Kantarovsky uses the stylistic vernacular of five separate artists to create a series of five lithographs, dealing with a series of apparently unrelated happenings, each staged as one “day.” The series takes up Kantarovsky’s theme of embarrassment across a variety of scenes, each populated by multiple figures, set in a disjunctive relation...
Adriana Martínez
2015Her 2015 work Orión is a black flag-like cloth with glow-in-the-dark symbols embroidered in the shape of the constellation...
Jesús ‘Bubu’ Negrón
Drawing & Print
2015(Drawing & Print) The series of drawings Cancha Abierta (Yellow Series) derive from a project in which Jesús ‘Bubu’ Negrón worked with the community of El Rosario, located in the region of Beni, Bolivia, approximately 500 meters away from the Mamoré River...
Newell Harry
2015(Untitled) Nimoa and Me: Kiriwina Notations by Newell Harry brings together a litany of contemporary politics—mobilization around enduring racism, the legacies of Indigenous and independence struggle, and the prospects of global solidarity against neocolonialism and social injustice...
Tatsuki Masaru
2016For the works KAKERA, Bullet Train and KAKERA, Loving God Tatsuki Masaru traveled throughout Japan to visit museums holding kakera (which translates to “fragments”) of Jomon Period potteries –Japan’s pre-history 2,300-15,000 years ago...
Nohemí Pérez
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) A rich and isolated region, El Catatumbo is located near the border with Venezuela...
Cristóbal Lehyt
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Cristóbal Lehyt has conducted thorough research on the historical and cultural complexity of the northern region of Chile where the Atacama Desert is located...
Edgardo Aragón
Drawing & Print
2016(Drawing & Print) Mesoamericana (Economic activities) is part of a larger project titled Mesoamerica: The Hurricane Effect, which includes a video as well as series of hand drawn maps -based on historical cartography- that examine the effects of foreign power in Mexico today...
Erbossyn Meldibekov
2017Game (Six Pieces) by Erbossyn Meldibekov is inspired by the popular Rubik’s cube puzzle and is composed of three colors (red, green and white) instead of six, referencing the colors of the Afghan flag...
Fredi Casco
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) Pascua Dolorosa (Painful Easter) by Fredi Casco is a series of drawings made on old worksheets documenting land surfaces in Caapucú, a forest exploitation area where one of the most violent episodes of the repression of Stroessner’s dictatorship took place in 1976, and during which peasants accused of belonging to insurgent movements were kidnapped, tortured and many of them killed...
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
2017Produced for the Prix Marcel Duchamp and presented at the Centre Pompidou in October 2017, the installation Unconformities is comprised of photographs, archaeological drawings, and narratives, based on the analysis of core samples from different sites in Beirut, Paris and Athens...
Santiago Yahuarcani
Drawing & Print
2017(Drawing & Print) The series Castigos del caucho by Santiago Yahuarcani originates in the oral memory transmitted by the artist’s grandfather, who was a survivor of the Putumayo genocide where thousands of Indigenous people were annihilated and enslaved to extract rubber from the Amazon forest between 1879 and 1912...
Antonio Pichillá
2017Wind by Antonio Pichillá is a textile piece depicting the glyph that represents the element wind in the Mayan tradition...
Miljohn Ruperto
2017Miljohn Ruperto’s research-based multidisciplinary practice often deals with possession, re-enactment, mythology and archives...
Yuichiro Tamura
2017The installation Hey Daddy, Hey Brother comprises a series of “Sukajan” jackets, which Tamura collected over a period of several years...
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
2017Produced for the Prix Marcel Duchamp and presented at the Centre Pompidou in October 2017, the installation Uncomformities is comprised of photographs, archaeological drawings, and narratives, based on the analysis of core samples from different sites in Beirut, Paris and Athens...
Rocky Cajigan
2017From the Ending by Rocky Cajigan consists of an assemblage painting, with accompanying sculptural objects presented on the floor...
Rocky Cajigan
2017From the Beginning by Rocky Cajigan consists of an assemblage painting, with accompanying sculptural objects presented on the floor...
Khvay Samnang
2017Originally commissioned for documenta 14, Khvay Samnang’s two-channel video work Preah Kunlong (The way of the spirit) takes land politics, resource extraction and Indigenous Cambodian resistance as its primary concern...
Nikita Kadan
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) East of Ukraine became a place of armed conflict with Russia-backed separatists, who proclaimed parts of (the) Donetsk and Lughansk oblast (administrative region in Ukrainian) to be ‘People’s republics’...
Andrés Pereira Paz
2018Juan III (Pescadores En Una Isla) is a series of embroideries made with fake pre-Columbian fabrics produced by the Gonzales family, a three-generation family of pre-Columbian textile “forgers” based in Lima, Peru...
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa
2018In Guardian 2 Naufus Ramírez Figueroa explores the historical memory and political reality of the ruins of Kawinal, an archeological site of postclassic Mayan culture that was flooded in order to construct the hydroelectric dam of Chixoy in 1975 in a supposed effort to bring electricity to the country...
Mercedes Dorame
2018Mercedes Dorame utilizes photography to investigate, recode, and connect with her Gabrielino-Tongva tribe culture, as well as to bring current Indigenous experiences to light...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History IV by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History III by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Study of History V by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Dale Harding
2018Dale Harding’s installation Body of Objects consists of eleven sculptural works that the artist based on imagery found at sandstone sites across Carnarvon Gorge in Central Queensland...
Jeamin Cha
2018In On Guard by Jeamin Cha, a security guard receives safety training, juxtaposed against his patrol of an empty building as he tries to give care instructions for his ailing mother over the phone...
Tanatchai Bandasak
2019Central Region by Tanatchai Bandasak is a meditation on materiality and time-based media centres on the mysterious, prehistoric ‘standing stones’ of Hintang in Northern Laos: little-studied megaliths which have survived thousands of years of political change and the cataclysmic carpet-bombing of Laos by the United States during the Cold War...
Tenzing Rigdol
2019Unhealed by Tenzing Rigdol is a photograph of the artist’s back tattooed with a map of Tibet with the dates of important political events...
Musquiqui Chihying
2019The Sculpture by Musquiqui Chihying comprises a two-channel lecture performance and a photograph...
Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper
2019Addressing the legacy of colonialism, The Guestbook by Musquiqui Chihying and Gregor Kasper is a slow-paced, black-and-white film exploring the German colony of Togoland, now the Republic of Togo...
Noara Quintana
2019The series Belle Époque of the Tropics by Noara Quintana has as its background the history of the rubber industrialization in North of Brazil...
Noé Martínez
2019As he investigates the forms that slavery took through different events that occurred during the sixteenth century in the Huasteca region of Mexico, Noé Martínez tells, in a non-linear narrative, the history of human trafficking in Relación de tráfico de personas 1525-1533 I (Study of Trafficking of Persons 1525–1533 I) ...
Teresa Burga
Drawing & Print
2019(Drawing & Print) In her new series titled Ninas Peruanas Cusquenas , Teresa Burga depicts young indigenous women from Peru’s Andean region, dressed in traditional garments...
Chia-Wei Hsu
2019Stones and Elephants by Chia-Wei Hsu derives from the Malay literary classic The Hikayat Abdullah ...
Alia Farid
2019For her work in Sharjah Biennial 14, Alia Farid traveled from the United Arab Emirates to Iran across the Strait of Hormuz to film the longest day of the summer...
Claudia Martínez Garay
2019escenario chacana by Claudia Martínez Garay is a sculptural work composed of a frame-like structure that contains a series of ceramic pieces...
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2020-2029
Clarisse Hahn
2020Les princes de la rue by Clarisse Hahn is part of Boyzone , a long term project in which the artist observes how men’s bodies reflect their relationships to public and private spaces...
Dana Kavelina
2020Letter to a Turtledove by Dana Kavelina is a short film based on a poem written by the artist...
Zhang Kechun
2020Zhang Kechun’s photographic series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernization along the eponymous Yellow River, the second longest in Asia...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Study of History VI by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Kubra Khademi
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Kubra Khademi’s work celebrates the female body and in her detailed drawings and paintings she portrays female bodies floating on white paper...
Subas Tamang
Drawing & Print
2021(Drawing & Print) Masiniya Matawali by Subas Tamang is an etching and aquatint print based on photographs taken by German photographer Volkmar Wentzel in 1949...
Kent Chan
2021Heat Waves by Kent Chan examines the contexts, politics, and proliferation of the different aesthetics of heat by drawing from the aesthetics of regions defined by hot and humid climates and associated with histories of coloniality such as ‘the global south’ and the ‘developing world’...
Subash Thebe Limbu
2021In Ningwasum , Subash Thebe Limbu explores Adivasi Futurism, a concept he has developed over a number of years, inspired by the writings of Octavia Butler, Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, and various Adivasi, Janajati, feminist, queer, and Dalit movements...
Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
Köken Ergun and Satyam Mishra
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
Walid Raad
2022For his first NFT release artist Walid Raad made a series of animated birthday cakes, titled Festival of Gratitude , for some of the world’s most toxic and larger-than-life leaders...
Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis
2022Five Hundred Twenty-Four, a single-channel video installation by Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis, features singers from over twenty Cleveland-area choirs counting numbers in an iterative process: one person sings “one”, then two people sing “two”, and so forth, to 524...
Köken Ergun and Tashi Lama
2022Nepal and China signed an agreement for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2017...
Risham Syed
2022Risham Syed discovered a box of woven Chinese silk panels that was her mother’s most prized possession...
Pratchaya Phinthong
2022Pratchaya Phinthong’s work has explored the mineral and karmic economies of Laos, a country that shares language, beliefs, and a long border with his own native region of Isaan (Northeast Thailand)...
