Art Histories Workshop
Thu 20 Apr 2017 | 13:00–17:00

Histories of Art and Art as History in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Wulandani Dirgantoro (Art Histories Fellow 2016/17), Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University, USA), Pamela Corey (SOAS University of London), Amanda Katherine Rath (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

Forum Transregionale Studien, Wallotstr. 14, 14193 Berlin

Production still from Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga, 2015, single channel HD video, color, sound, 35:00 min. (artwork © Jamie Maxtone-Graham, image provided by the artist)
Production still from Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Letters from Panduranga, 2015, single channel HD video, color, sound, 35:00 min. (artwork © Jamie Maxtone-Graham, image provided by the artist)

The workshop will present an overview of the development of artistic practices in Southeast Asia from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Vietnam the workshop will examine the diverse artistic practices by individual artists such as Jason Wee (Singapore), Debbie Ding (Singapore), and Robert Zhao (Singapore); art collectives and poets such as GSRB (Indonesia) and Danarto (Indonesia); as well as the works of filmmakers Vandy Rattana (Cambodia) and Nguyễn Trinh Thi (Vietnam). The workshop will address issues such as memory, history, artistic milieu as well as the challenges of artistic practice and the writing of art history in the Southeast Asian context.
 

Participants
Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University, USA)
Pamela Corey (SOAS University of London)
Amanda Katherine Rath  (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt)

 

Workshop Report by Wulandani Dirgantoro on TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

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