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Walid Raad
For 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. The series of looping three-dimensional animated videos are only seconds long—a timespan familiar to gif and online meme culture—and feature global dictators, strongmen and strongwomen, kings and queens, princes and princesses, emirs, sheikhs and sheikhas, sultans, shahs, emperors and empresses, popes, ayatollahs, presidents, prime ministers, CEOs, and GOATs. The subject of cakes has a specific personal meaning for Raad, whose first job as an adolescent was photographing pastries at a bakery in Beirut.
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James T. Hong
Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program. T. Hong’s research is not only an effort to revisit a dark time that complicates certain histories, but more importantly an investigation of how violence is enacted in the name of rationality.
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James T. Hong
Lessons of the Blood by James T. Hong pieces together interviews, extensive archival and field research, and TV footage addressing Japan’s use of biological warfare and experimentation on Chinese prisoners during World War II, as well as the revisionism of the Japanese government and Chinese survivors’ attempts to live with this horrific history and to find justice. Co-written, directed, edited and produced with Yin-Ju Chen, whose work is also represented in the Kadist collection, Lessons of the Blood is a meditation on propaganda, the ways in which national mythologies can literally infect and poison the most vulnerable among us, and the legacy of World War II in China, presented through the testimonies of survivors, academics, medical experts, nationalists and activists. The film locates its genesis in the publication of the New History Textbook in Japan in 2000, which infamously glossed over the Japanese Empire’s wartime atrocities, sparking rage and violent protests in China and South Korea in 2005.
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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...
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about 13 months ago (12/18/2023)
The Jimei × Arles festival is a feast – will it boost Chinese photography for good? - 1854 Photography Subscribe latest Agenda Bookshelf Projects Industry Insights magazine Explore ANY ANSWERS FINE ART IN THE STUDIO PARENTHOOD ART & ACTIVISM FOR THE RECORD LANDSCAPE PICTURE THIS CREATIVE BRIEF GENDER & SEXUALITY MIXED MEDIA POWER & EMPOWERMENT DOCUMENTARY HOME & BELONGING ON LOCATION PORTRAITURE DECADE OF CHANGE HUMANITY & TECHNOLOGY OPINION THEN & NOW Explore Stories latest agenda bookshelf projects theme in focus industry insights magazine ANY ANSWERS FINE ART IN THE STUDIO PARENTHOOD ART & ACTIVISM FOR THE RECORD LANDSCAPE PICTURE THIS CREATIVE BRIEF GENDER & SEXUALITY MIXED MEDIA POWER & EMPOWERMENT DOCUMENTARY HOME & BELONGING ON LOCATION PORTRAITURE DECADE OF CHANGE HUMANITY & TECHNOLOGY OPINION THEN & NOW Operating room party (Grand), 2022, from the series Baby’s Baby © Wu MeiChi Now in its ninth year, the festival brings works from Les Rencontres d’Arles alongside its own cutting-edge programme...
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about 27 months ago (10/20/2022)
ArtsEquator’s Top 10 Picks for Singapore Writers Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content The Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) returns with a milestone celebration as it reaches its 25th edition this year...
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about 28 months ago (09/14/2022)
Storytelling and Mental Wellness | ArtsEquator Skip to content In conjunction with the 'Mental Health Awareness & Wellbeing Festival 2022', ArtsEquator learns how storytelling can be a catalyst for mental clarity and self awareness...
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about 31 months ago (07/01/2022)
Podcast 105: SIFA 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content Nabilah Said, Dia Hakim and Corrie Tan discuss the Singapore International Festival of Arts that took place on 20 May - 5 June 2022...
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about 32 months ago (06/02/2022)
Remotes X Quantum: Daring Collaboration Defies Cohesion | ArtsEquator Skip to content Remotes x Quantum, a Singapore-Philippines collaboration, is a daring, experimental work that never quite attains cohesion, which Jennifer Anne Champion finds is on-brand for SIFA 2022's experimental nature...
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about 32 months ago (05/31/2022)
MEPAAN: The Air Bandung Conundrum | ArtsEquator Skip to content Dr Shahril Salleh reflects on the challenges and rewards of intercultural collaboration in the Singapore Festival of the Arts 2022’s opening show, MEPAAN, using a beloved local drink as an analogy...
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about 34 months ago (03/10/2022)
Podcast 101: M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022 | ArtsEquator Skip to content ArtsEquator’s theatre podcast is back in 2022, with critics Lee Shu Yu, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia in a post-show conversation about three productions at M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2022: The Essential Playlist by The Second Breakfast Company (Singapore), Being: 息在 by 微 Wei Collective and Collaborators (Singapore) and OK Land by Circle Theatre (Thailand)...
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about 69 months ago (04/29/2019)
The Body Remembers: Kitt Johnson on "Stigma" at M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles "Stigma", photo by James Quah (left), Kitt Johnson, photo by Per Morten Abrahamsen (right) April 29, 2019 By Germaine Cheng (605 words, three-minute read) 2019 marks the 10th edition of the M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival , a humble endeavour by Kuik Swee Boon, artistic director of T...
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about 70 months ago (04/01/2019)
SIFA 2019: Top Ten Picks | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image: SIFA 2019 April 1, 2019 By Akanksha Raja The 42nd Singapore International Festival of Arts returns this year from 16 May to 2 June 2019...
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about 71 months ago (03/21/2019)
The #TenYearChallenge: M1 CONTACT Contemporary Dance Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Left: Silvia Yong, photographed by Tan Ngiap Heng, for Contact 2010 Right: Shintaro Oue in "Dan-Su", which will be performed at M1 Contact 2019, photographed by Matron March 21, 2019 Over the past decade, contemporary dance in Singapore has blossomed...
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about 71 months ago (03/06/2019)
Of Math and Art: "A Game of Numbers" with NUS Arts Festival 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 6, 2019 By Elaine Chiew (1195 words, five-minute read) ‘A GAME OF NUMBERS’: Elaine Chiew interviews Mary Loh and Professor Victor Tan on the mathematically-themed NUS Arts Festival 2019 believed to be first-ever in Singapore...
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about 72 months ago (02/18/2019)
Exploring the Past Through the Personal: “Meantime” and “Rojak Romance” at TFOOPFest | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles February 18, 2019 By Akanksha Raja (1181 words, five-minute read) It’s 2019 and nostalgia is in the air in Singapore, thanks to the Bicentennial fever that is sweeping the country...
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about 74 months ago (11/27/2018)
Organizers decry last-minute cancelation of Hanoi EDM festival (via Tuoi Tre News) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 27, 2018 An EDM (electronic dance music) festival scheduled to take place just outside Hanoi from November 23 to 25 was asked to cancel only hours before its opening, despite sold tickets and foreign and local artists and volunteers already heading to the venue...
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about 75 months ago (11/21/2018)
Joe Sidek: "I've never felt more strong" | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Illustration of Joe Sidek by Jackie Goh of The Fingersmith Letterpress November 21, 2018 By Kathy Rowland (910 words, five-minute read) Joe Sidek will not be cowed...
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about 75 months ago (11/01/2018)
Rianto's "Medium": Of Journeys, Transformations & Corporeality | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng November 1, 2018 By Nirmala Seshadri (990 words, four-minute read) Total darkness...
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about 75 months ago (10/25/2018)
On Taipei Arts Festival with Tang Fu Kuen | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 25, 2018 By Yuka Sugiyama (480 words, three-minute read) The Taipei Arts Festival (TAF) began in 1998 as one of the main festivals in Taipei to mark the city’s contemporary consciousness through the staging of multiple artistic activities for international and national audiences...
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about 75 months ago (10/25/2018)
On the Indonesian Dance Festival with Maria Darmaningsih | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 25, 2018 As part of ArtsEquator’s series of interviews profiling festival directors in Southeast Asia, we get to learn more about Maria Darmaningsih, co-founder and current artistic director of the bi-annual Indonesian Dance Festival (IDF), which was launched in 1992...
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about 75 months ago (10/25/2018)
Some Southeast Asian picks from the Busan International Film Festival (via Bangkok Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 25, 2018 How do Aceh and Japan, two places that seem unrelated, separated by a vast distance of land and sea, connect on the personal and historical level? For one, they both have been hit by a tsunami — Aceh in the massive tragedy that struck many parts of Southeast Asia in 2004 and Japan in 2011...
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about 76 months ago (10/18/2018)
"Invisible Habitudes": Postcards From a Choreographer’s Journey | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng October 18, 2018 By Chan Sze Wei (1090 words, five-minute read) T...
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about 76 months ago (10/01/2018)
Vietnamese director's debut feature The Third Wife wins award at Toronto Film Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 1, 2018 The directorial debut from Nguyen Phuong Anh, also known as Ash Mayfair, won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) award at last week’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)...
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about 77 months ago (09/17/2018)
Short film fest to send winner to Hollywood (via The Manila Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Filmmakers of 'As Time Flows By', Janna Lejano (left) and Annika Yañez (right) September 17, 2018 Ten bold and emotionally stirring stories have been selected as finalists the 2nd Viddsee Juree Philippines, a festival of short films that celebrates and supports filmmaking communities in Asia...
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about 77 months ago (09/17/2018)
Cambodia Town Film Festival presents perspectives beyond ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ (via Long Beach Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 17, 2018 Kilong Ung was just a teenager when the Khmer Rouge overtook his hometown of Battambang in Cambodia...
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about 77 months ago (09/11/2018)
Vietnamese Cultural Week opens in Cambodia (via Nhân Dân) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 11, 2018 NDO – The Vietnamese Culture Week opened at Chaktomuk theatre, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on September 11...
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about 77 months ago (09/05/2018)
Johor Arts Festival 2018: Top 8 Picks | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 5, 2018 The 15th Johor Arts Festival kicked off on 1 September, and runs until 23 September 2018...
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about 78 months ago (08/23/2018)
"Asian Festivals Exchange" at M1 Contact Contemporary Dance Festival 2018 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Bernie Ng K(-A-)O by Kenji Shinohe August 23, 2018 By Bernice Lee (1300 words, five-minute read) “Asian Festivals Exchange” puts together works selected from two East Asian festivals — Yokohama Dance Collection and Seoul Dance Collection — two works performed by T...
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about 78 months ago (08/16/2018)
AExGTF Chats: The Griffith Creative Arts Room at George Town Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints https://artsequator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GTF-Griffiths-Creative-Arts-Room.mp4 August 16, 2018 The opening weekend of the George Town Festival 2018 also saw the opening of the Griffith Creative Arts Room at Wisma Yeap Chor Ee, Penang: a room dedicated to presenting the works of creative arts from the students and faculty of Griffith University, Queensland, Australia...
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about 78 months ago (08/16/2018)
"Kelantan: A Living Heritage": Tributing the Traditional | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Thum CC August 16, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (1050 words, four-minute read) George Town Festival is now in its ninth year, and one of the distinctive qualities in every edition is the balance it strikes between presenting international touring works, and Malaysian shows that are rooted in local society and culture...
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about 78 months ago (07/26/2018)
Bonn Phum: Cambodian Village Festival | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles July 26, 2018 By Sunitha Janamohanan Bonn Phum, the Village Festival , now in its fifth year and attracting hordes of young Cambodians, took place from April 6 – 8 2018, in the grounds of the Kok Ampil pagoda...
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about 80 months ago (06/21/2018)
Rainforest Fringe Festival 2018: Top 8 Picks | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles June 21, 2018 By Nur Athirah Abdullah The Rainforest Fringe Festival 2018 (RFF 2018) is less than a month away! Not to be mistaken for the Rainforest World Music Festival, one of the region’s best world music festivals, the Fringe is a cool combo of the very best of Sarawak’s music, art, craft, film, photography, and food...
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2010-2019
James T. Hong
2012Taiwan WMD (Taiwan and Weapons of Mass Destruction) is part of a long-term research started in early 2010 on the history and aftermath effects of Japanese biological and chemical warfare in China during WWII, as well as the unknown history of Taiwan’s nuclear program...
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2020-2029
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...