Coming up this weekend. CCSCA will convene its annual Graduate Research Forum on 27 May at MoNTUE北師美術館. The Forum will feature presentations of graduate thesis research that reflect diverse trajectories of enquiry into the ecologies of art and exhibitions in East and Southeast Asia.
At this year’s edition of the Forum, CCSCA students will be presenting alongside visiting students from the MA Asian Art Histories – Lasalle College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
Francis Maravillas
Lu Peiyi
SESSION 1: PHOTOMEDIA
• Aesthetic Play: Visual Negotiations between Photographers
and Social Media
Margot Bollin (CCSCA)
• Countering Stereotypes of the Nyonya in Popular Culture:
Photographs of Peranakan women from mid 19th century to
mid 20th century
Theresa Tan (MAAH, Lasalle)
Respondents: Francis Maravillas and Nobou Takamori
SESSION 2: FILM AND DIGITAL SPACE
• The Potentiality of 3D Virtual Space in the Art Market: A Study
of Art Galleries and Art Collectors
Gloria Demichelis (CCSCA)
• Touring Yilan: Tsai Ming-liang’s The Walker at the Zhuangwei
Dune Visitor Center
Gregory Young (CCSCA)
Respondents: Lu Peiyi and Nobou Takamori
SESSION 3: ART AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
• ‘Be Water’: A Study of Hong Kong’s protest art
Alina Kopilevich (CCSCA)
• The Aesthetics and Politics of the Everyday in Hong Kong
Contemporary Art
Stephanie Lo (CCSCA)
• THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH: Investigating the role and
influence of the Singapore River in the works of Cheo Chai-
Hiang and Debbie Ding to evoke memories and shape identity
Fausta Tan (MAAH, Lasalle)
Respondents: Lu Peiyi and Shing Au Yeung
SESSION 4: AESTHETIC AND POLITICS
• Provisional Forms: Socially-Engaged Art and the Postcolonial
Nation through SAKA and its Urban Farming Initiatives
Yuji de Torres (CCSCA)
• Framing Language: The Socio-Political Context of Indonesian
Text-Based Art
Akshatha Rangarajan (MAAH, Lasalle)
• The Queer Prospectus: Priorities, Histories, and Speculations
within Art Concerning Embodied Trans Identities in Singapore.
Madeline Byrne (MAAH, Lasalle)
Respondents: Francis Maravillas and Jeffrey Say
CLOSING REMARKS:
Francis Maravillas
Lu Peiyi