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about 8 months ago (02/09/2024)
Following a brutal and ongoing coup in 2021, artists from the country attempt to make sense of a troubling new political reality....
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about 26 months ago (09/08/2022)
Art in Exile: Burmese Artists in Thailand | ArtsEquator Skip to content Burmese artists make art in exile in Thailand, finding refuge and showcasing cross-border solidarity for artistic freedom...
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about 32 months ago (03/15/2022)
COVID-19 and the arts in Southeast Asia - 2 years on | ArtsEquator Skip to content In March 2020, we spoke to 10 arts and culture workers from across Southeast Asia, in a bid to capture the sentiments on the ground as it shifted during the early days of the pandemic...
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about 32 months ago (03/03/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints March 3, 2022 By Chu May Paing (1,532 words, 6-minute read) Witness (noun) 1 : attestation of a fact or event : testimony 2 : one that gives evidence specifically : one who testifies in a cause or before a judicial tribunal 3 : one asked to be present at a transaction so as to be able to testify to its having taken place 4 : one who has personal knowledge of something 5 : something serving as evidence or proof – Merriam-Webster Dictionary When I think about the word “witness” in English, I feel a sense of passivity: one being interpellated into seeing or being in the presence of an event unfolding in proximity of their own body (or mind)...
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about 32 months ago (03/01/2022)
Witnessing is political: Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring | ArtsEquator Skip to content A new collection of poems and essays bears witness to the bravery of ordinary citizens since the brutal military coupe of Feb 2021 in Myanmar...
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about 34 months ago (12/31/2021)
The top ArtsEquator articles of 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 31, 2021 Below is a list of the top 10 ArtsEquator articles in 2021, in random order: The Substation: How many more canaries in the coal mine? by Hoe Su Fern Published on: 20 Feb 2021 “Although the current situation facing The Substation is not new or unique, its impending fate is emblematic of, and raises deep questions about the progressively precarious and capricious conditions of arts practice in Singapore.” Also well-read: The Su bstation: An unstoppable force and an immovable object by Nabilah Said and a timeline of events by Ke Weiliang...
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about 35 months ago (12/07/2021)
WrICE 2021: Writers Ask Writers, Asia Pacific edition | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 7, 2021 We asked 11 writers and translators of poetry, fiction and non-fiction to participate in an exquisite corpse -like Q&A session, with each person answering a question and then asking one...
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about 38 months ago (09/17/2021)
BIPAM 2021: Delight, despair, dialogue and the despot | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints September 17, 2021 By Nabilah Said (1,800 words, 6-minute read) I’ve never actually attended the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting (BIPAM)...
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about 40 months ago (07/14/2021)
Can the arts solve community issues in the region? The SEA*5 think so...
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about 41 months ago (06/07/2021)
Meeting Point 2021: The cultural worker in a time of social change | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Mekong Cultural Hub June 7, 2021 By Wennie Yang (2,000 words, 8-minute read) Laptop fully charged, professional Zoom background selected – Meeting Point 2021 organised by Mekong Cultural Hub and its partners took place virtually between 20 to 22 May 2021...
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about 42 months ago (04/23/2021)
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar – and how you can help | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints April 23, 2021 By ArtsEquator In the early hours of Monday, 1 February 2021, the leaders of Myanmar’s elected civilian government were seized and detained in a military coup d’état...
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about 49 months ago (10/06/2020)
Transcultural Lullabies: Rohingya and Malay folksongs | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints October 6, 2020 Rohingya poet Mayyu Ali and Malaysian artist Sharon Chin collaborate in this meaningful project that looks at Rohingya and Malay lullabies and folksongs...
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about 50 months ago (09/02/2020)
ArtsEquator, Deadline Now | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 2, 2020 by Kathy Rowland ArtsEquator sometimes feels like a mythical creature...
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about 51 months ago (07/28/2020)
Burning Questions: Traditional Arts: The Forgotten COVID Casualty? | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints July 28, 2020 While the pandemic has resulted in losses of jobs in the arts, less has been said about the fate of craftsmen, artisans and masters of intangible heritage and traditional arts...
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about 56 months ago (02/26/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Hallyu love and cementing disaster | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar February 26, 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 58 months ago (01/16/2020)
20 Arts and Cultural Festivals to Visit in Southeast Asia in 2020 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Sunitha Janamohanan January 16, 2020 It’s the year 2020 and the world is rife with new Instagram filters, hashtag 2020vision (yes, we get it) and the perennial “new year, new me” declarations...
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about 65 months ago (06/12/2019)
Asian Arts Media Roundtable 2019: When Asian Critics Meet | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of Asian Arts Media Roundtable June 12, 2019 By Akanksha Raja and Ke Weiliang (1,444 words, 6-minute read) The inaugural Asian Arts Media Roundtable (AAMR) took place between 24 to 25 May 2019 at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore...
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about 72 months ago (11/19/2018)
Grace Baey's Portraits of Yangon’s Trans Population (via Coconuts Yangon) Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Grace Baey November 19, 2018 Some photographers are able to capture the most delicate moments deftly...
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about 73 months ago (11/01/2018)
"8888 Uprising": Thirty Years Later | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles November 1, 2018 By Sharaad Kuttan (650 words, four-minute read) Despite the flash of contemporary retail – some garish, some tasteful – Yangon’s old-world charms prevail...
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about 74 months ago (09/22/2018)
MervEspina and the Green Papaya Art Projects (via The Myanmar Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 22, 2018 With the support of Japan Foundation and collaboration of Myanm/Art, MervEspina, artist and researcher from Philippines talked about Green Papaya Art Projects whose essence can be rendered as ‘never ripe, never rotten’...
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about 74 months ago (09/20/2018)
U Maung Maung’s blast from the past (via The Myanmar Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 20, 2018 To some people, these maybe nothing more than trash, some useless pieces of equipment from a forgotten past, but to others these are rare gems that brought back some bittersweet memories from not so long ago, when strife of all kinds – from World War I, World War II, up to the cold war era — dominated the world...
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about 74 months ago (09/12/2018)
Veteran Artists Team Up with Younger Generation at ‘Wild Eye’ Exhibition (via The Irrawady) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 12, 2018 YANGON — Veteran modernists and younger generations have teamed up to exhibit their works together in Yangon...
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about 76 months ago (08/02/2018)
Myanmar’s artists reflect on seventy years of history in seminal exhibition (via Frontier Myanmar) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar August 2, 2018 ARTIST HTEIN Lin climbs onto a chair...
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about 76 months ago (07/30/2018)
Art Show Delves Into the Surreal (via The Irrawady) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 30, 2018 YANGON — For those tired of landscapes and portraits, an ongoing exhibition in Yangon is showcasing something a little more uncanny...
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about 77 months ago (07/02/2018)
Once-thriving Myanmar cinema readies for new wave (via Nikkei Asian Review) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 2, 2018 YANGON — Change is afoot in Myanmar’s now moribund movie industry...
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about 77 months ago (06/21/2018)
Showcasing a national treasure (via Frontier Myanmar) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 21, 2018 CLOSED OFF for decades, in recent years members of the public have been able to enjoy more time inside the grounds of the Secretariat in downtown Yangon, one of the country’s most historically significant buildings...