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about 64 months ago (01/16/2019)
Galleries informed that art fair Art Stage Singapore cancelled (via The Straits Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar January 16, 2019 SINGAPORE – At least five galleries slated to participate in Art Stage Singapore say the art fair has been cancelled by organisers...
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about 65 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 65 months ago (01/04/2019)
Masked dance tradition rises from near extinction in Cambodia (via Reuters) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar REUTERS/Jorge Silva January 4, 2019 PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Cambodia’s centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to a new generation...
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about 65 months ago (01/02/2019)
Radical theatre of the difabled (via Inside Indonesia) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar January 2, 2019 Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves (Augusto Boal, founder, Theatre of the Oppressed) The performance took place on a makeshift open-air stage using only simple props, under the roof of a traditional Javanese theatre...
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about 65 months ago (12/28/2018)
It’s Time for French Museums to Return Cambodian Artifacts (via The Diplomat) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Flickr/ Jean-Pierre Dalbéra December 28, 2018 The debate as to whether international museums and governments should return cultural artifacts acquired during the colonial period is not a new one...
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about 65 months ago (12/21/2018)
Pho Ben Doi art exhibition returns to Da Lat in December | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar Artwork by Lieu Nguyen December 21, 2018 The third edition of Da Lat’s annual Pho Ben Doi art exhibition will feature more than 125 artworks by nearly 50 young, well-known Vietnamese and international artists and experts in archeology, architecture, and music from December 8, 2018 to February 28, 2019...
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about 65 months ago (12/19/2018)
Examining Vietnam's Modernity Through the Lens of South Asian Independent Documentaries | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar December 19, 2018 The idea for Moving Reels: A Social Dialog formed in 2016 as the result of a dialogue between Dr...
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about 67 months ago (11/04/2018)
Dramaturgy Under Capitalism (via Exeunt) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar November 4, 2018 At first encounter, it’s a terrifying word...
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about 68 months ago (10/03/2018)
Yangon's well loved Palace of Literature (via The Myanmar Times) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles October 3, 2018 The four storey yellow painted building with big masonry work of books in black and white pages for its motif loomed high at the corner of Merchant Road and 37th street...
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about 68 months ago (09/15/2018)
How Dép Tổ Ong Goes From Timeless Family Keepsake to Millennial Icon (via Saigoneer) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles September 16, 2018 Back in 2014, amid the weekly cycle of news, a particular image was more striking than most: Doctor and Professor Ngo Bao Chau stood in the middle of a makeshift classroom in a rural village in Thai Nguyen Province while teaching local kids...
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about 70 months ago (08/07/2018)
Photo project examines how food challenges the notion of poverty (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar August 7, 2018 Since 2010, photographer Stefen Chow and his economist partner Lin Huiyi have been challenging perceptions of what it means to be poor across the globe...
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about 70 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 70 months ago (08/01/2018)
Mass inclusion: thoughts on Teo Yeo Yenn’s ‘This is what Inequality looks like’ (via Dumbriyani) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar August 1, 2018 In recent days, I have been absorbed heavily into a book my wife brought home from Kinokuniya...
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about 70 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 70 months ago (07/26/2018)
Cambodia’s first contemporary dance company: ‘we were blacklisted for not being Cambodian enough’ (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 26, 2018 Ap ril is hot in Cambodia, with temperatures regularly hitting the mid-30s...
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about 70 months ago (07/24/2018)
An Inconvenient Practice (via Plural Art Magazine) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 24, 2018 A recent video released by British diver Rich Horner, showed him swimming through the waters of Bali...
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about 70 months ago (07/18/2018)
Fifield announces $100,000 to grow cultural links with Singapore (via ArtsHub) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 18, 2018 The Turnbull Government has announced more than $100,000 for arts and cultural collaborations with Singapore...
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about 70 months ago (07/17/2018)
Kartika Affandi: 9 Ways of Seeing | Interview with videomaker Christopher Basile (via Culture 360) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 17, 2018 A new documentary film tells the story of visionary artist Kartika Affandi, daughter of Indonesia ‘s most celebrated painter, and a groundbreaking personality in her own right...
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about 71 months ago (07/12/2018)
Who pays for art? (via Bangkok Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 12, 2018 Should museums be funded by the state or by private sponsors? The question looms large with the current problems at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), the largest publicly-funded art gallery in the country — and with the rise of many private galleries that seem to flourish with the burgeoning art scene....
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about 71 months ago (07/10/2018)
Austrian singer collaborates with ‘angklung’ musicians at Indonesian Cultural Night in Vienna (via The Jakarta Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 10, 2018 Angklung musicians featuring Austrian soprano Maria Theresia Gruber staged the song Bengawan Solo at the Indonesian Cultural Night event held at Vienna’s Weltmuseum on Tuesday evening...
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about 71 months ago (07/05/2018)
An orphaned artist paints for support (via The Phnom Penh Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 5, 2018 Self-taught artist Yi Kakada has spent the past six years demonstrating his skills by painting on walls, fences and other public areas, often without getting paid...
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about 71 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 71 months ago (06/29/2018)
George Town marks UNESCO anniversary amid debate (via Nikkei Asian Review) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 29, 2018 GEORGE TOWN, Malaysia — On any given weekend, a 15-meter-long queue of international tourists materializes at the upper corner of Armenian Street, an atmospheric road packed with tourist shops and cafes at the heart of George Town, capital of Malaysia’s Penang State...
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about 71 months ago (06/25/2018)
Sarawak’s second Rainforest Fringe Festival aims to put indigenous traditions on the map (via South China Morning Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 25, 2018 The Rainforest Fringe Festival started in 2017 to spotlight Sawarak’s distinct jungle heritage...
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about 71 months ago (06/21/2018)
Big Brother is watching you: the exhibition aiming to tackle surveillance and censorship (via SEA Globe) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 21, 2018 Surveillance and censorship are becoming part and parcel of daily life around the world, and yet many citizens seem content to turn a blind eye to it...
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about 71 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...
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about 71 months ago (06/19/2018)
ILHAM Gallery is a trailblazer in the Malaysian art scene (via Luxuo) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar June 19, 2018 ILHAM Gallery sits like a secret jewel box in the black-ice exterior of Menara ILHAM, where it has played host to celebrated artists and conceptual experimenters since it opened its doors in August 2015...