[CCSCA Talk] How to Work Together: Talking Documenta Fifteen as an Example
For the upcoming keynote speech by Proffessor LIN
3rd Dec. 2022 in Taipei Fine Art Museum, with simultaneous translation from Chinese to English
Registration:
https://www.tfam.museum/Event/
△ It is required and begins on NOV 21 (Mon.) 10:00 AM.
△ The registration page will automatically close when reached the maximum number of participants
△ Check-in: DEC 3 (Sat.) 10:30 – 10:45; the registration expires when exceeding the check-in timeframe
△ Check-in: DEC 4 (Sun.) 12:20 – 12:35; the registration expires when exceeding the check-in timeframe
Official website:
https://www.tfam.museum/
About this event
Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now is a 2-day online symposium gathering key voices in the field of contemporary Southeast Asian art. The symposium is intended as a space for renewing knowledge and conversations around critical developments in art and curatorial practice, projects of art history and exhibition history, and the ever-shifting coordinates of contemporary Southeast Asian art itself – all within a context of the expanded artworlds for, and public engagement with, the region’s art over the last few decades. To this end, Shifting Grounds. New Horizonsencourages thinking and discussion across historical and present-day contexts, as well as future trajectories of practice that are shaping the field.
Online 3–4 November 2022 (If you are attending both days, please register for each)
The symposium will feature presentations by emerging and established artists, curators, art writers and scholars working in the field of contemporary Southeast Asian art. Alongside an opening keynote, it will comprise the following 6 key sessions over the two days:
Convenors
Dr Michelle Antoinette, Monash University, and Dr Francis Maravillas, National Taipei University of Education.
Keynote:
Artist-Curator and Manifesto in Southeast Asia: Prefiguring Contemporary Reciprocities – Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies, University of Philippines and Curator, Vargas Museum, Manila
8.45am-3.00pm Taipei time / 11.45am-6pm Melbourne (AEDT)
Symposium welcome
Spiros Panigirakis, Head, Fine Art Department, Monash University, Melbourne
Lin Chi-Ming, Director of Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art program, National Taipei University of Education
Introduction
Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas
Keynote
Artist-Curator and Manifesto in Southeast Asia: Prefiguring Contemporary Reciprocities
Patrick Flores, Professor of Art Studies, University of Philippines and Curator, Vargas Museum, Manila
Discussant: David Teh, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore and Co-Curator 17th Istanbul Biennial 2022
Session 1: The Curatorial and Exhibition-Making
Exhibition Making as a Member of the Community: On Generous Structure and a Jumbo Jar of Tea
Mira Asriningtyas, Independent curator, writer and co-founder of LIR space, Yogyakarta
Compelling Coordinates: Curating Afro-Southeast Asia
Carlos Quijon Jr., Art historian, critic and curator, and fellow of the research platform ‘Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia’ at the Getty Foundation
A proposal for transcultural and transnational curating
Đỗ Tường Linh, Co-curator, Still Present! 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2022
Moderator: Grace Samboh, Researcher, curator and writer attached to Hyphen — and affiliated to RUBANAH Underground Hub
Session 2: Contemporary Practices of Art
Balai Bikin
Yee-I Lann, Artist, board member for Forever Sabah, and co-founding partner of KOTA-K Studio, Kota Kinabalu
The Call of Fragility, 2022
Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina, Jakarta-based artist duo
BẾN – NGỌC THUỴ – KASSEL
Nhà Sàn Collective, represented by co-founder and co-director Phương Linh Nguyễn
Moderator: Alia Swastika, Curator and Director, Jogja Biennale Foundation in Yogyakarta
General Discussion and Closing Remarks
Led by Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas
Welcome and Introduction to Day 2
Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas
Session 3: Revisiting the 1990s
Frolicking on Slippery Grounds during the Roaring 1990s and early 2000s
Apinan Poshyananda, Chief Executive and Artistic Director, Bangkok Art Biennale
A footsoldier’s map of ‘Southeast Asian contemporary art’ in the 1990s
Beverly Yong, Co-Founder and Director, RogueArt, Kuala Lumpur
Thirty Years: A Short Story about Australian/Asian Artistic Dialogues
Julie Ewington, Independent curator and writer, and Chair of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
Moderator: Russell Storer, Head Curator of International Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Session 4: Shaping Knowledge
Year of doing Poor Digital Art History
Simon Soon, Senior Lecturer in Art History, Visual Art Studies Program, Universiti Malaya
The City in Time: Ways of Thinking about Art and Urbanism in Vietnam and Cambodia
Pamela Nguyen Corey, Associate Professor, Art and Media Studies, Fulbright University Vietnam
prep-room, curatorial: (re)claiming the “museum” in a university museum
Siddharta Perez, Curator, National University of Singapore Museum
Moderator: Adrian Vickers, Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney
Session 5: Alternate Mappings
Renderings of Southeast Asia
Ho Tzu Nyen, Singapore-based artist and filmmaker, and co-curator for the 7th Asian Art Biennial, Taichung, 2019
Roger Nelson, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Session 6: Collective Ecologies and Methodologies
After ‘lumbung one’
ruangrupa, Jakarta-based artist collective, and Artistic team of documenta fifteen (represented by Ade Darmawan, Farid Rakun, Indra Ameng, and Julia Sarisetiati TBC)
Moderators: Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas
Closing Discussion: Reflections and Responses to the Symposium
Led by Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas
The symposium follows the publication of a special double issue on ‘Contemporary Art Worlds and Art Publics in Southeast Asia’ (2020) in the journal World Art, edited by Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas.
Shifting Grounds, New Horizons is jointly hosted by the Art History & Theory program at Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA) in Melbourne, and the MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art programme (CCSCA) at the National Taipei University of Education, Taipei. It is supported by the Australian Research Council (DE170100455), CCSCA, and MADA.
Image: Ho Tzu Nyen, One or Several Tigers, 2017, synchronized double channel HD projection, automated screen, shadow puppets, 10 channel sound, show-control system. Courtesy of Kiang Malingue Gallery and the Artist.