Art+Feminism: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Women in Art in Asia
Workshop
Fri, 30 Nov 2018
Staging Gender
Performance
Mon, 16 Jul 2018
Christina Yuen Zi Chung | Reimagining Feminism in Hong Kong
Talk
1 Research Collection
Photo Documentation of Om Swaha from the Sheba Chhachhi Archive
75 Records
Photo Documentation of Om Swaha from the Sheba Chhachhi Archive
44 Ideas
Essays
Yellow Skin, White Gold
Anne Anlin Cheng reconsiders Asiatic femininity, racialised embodiment, and the confusion between persons and things
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Transformative Territory: Performance Art and Gender in Post-New Order Indonesia
Recommended readings on the history of performance art in Indonesia, with a focus on the practices of female artists
Essays
Women, Handicrafts, and Entrepreneurship in the Postcolonial World
Annemari de Silva addresses the gendered and postcolonial valuations of "art" and "craft" in Sri Lanka
Essays
Setting the Stage: Korean Women Artists on Performance and Beauty
So-Rim Lee examines how two emerging feminist artists stage and politicise a hair salon and a cosmetics store
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | The Defiant Fringed Pink: Feminist Art in Japan
Recommended readings that trace the development of feminism and feminist art in Japan from the 1990s to the present
Essays
Tomorrow Girls Troop: A Fourth-Wave Feminist Art Collective
Reflections on activism, gender equality, and visual representation in Japan from an emerging feminist art collective
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Zubeida Agha with President Ayub Khan
A look at a revealing photo from the Zubeida Agha Archive
Essays
Motherhood, Motherland: Photography, Representation, and Agency of the Filipina Overseas Worker
Alice Sarmiento asks whether exhibitions and artist-led initiatives can change how we connect space, citizenship, and acts of caregiving
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Women in the Visual Arts in India and South Asia: Some Partial Maps
Recommended readings on women in the visual arts in India and South Asia
Notes
Writing and Weaving: Engendering Documents in History
Li Xiaojiang reflects on her work at the Women’s Culture Museum in Shaanxi, and the need for new ways of centring women’s cultural legacies
Conversations
Building Asia Art Archive, Part 3
How does AAA make decisions about what it collects? Jane DeBevoise and Anthony Yung discuss AAA’s China projects in relation to this query
Conversations
“Earth Drives Earth Along”: In Conversation with Nilima Sheikh
Nilima Sheikh discusses the histories and materiality of four natural pigments from her studio space in Baroda
Essays
Gendering Her Art: The Category of “Woman” in the Art History of Hong Kong
Christina Yuen Zi Chung looks at gender-themed art exhibitions and their relation to feminist discourse in Hong Kong
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Women Artists in Mainland China
Recommended readings on women artists practising after the end of the Cultural Revolution
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | (In)Visibly Yours
Phoebe Wong selects five books on women artists in Hong Kong
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Country Paper — Pakistan
A look at Salima Hashmi's writing on women artists in Pakistan
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Photograph of Geeta Kapur, Meera Mukherjee, and Gogi Saroj Pal
A look at an image taken at the Kasauli Art Centre Artist Workshop in 1978
Essays
Elision, Excess, Parody, Disavowal: Justine Frank in the Museum
Roee Rosen discusses the challenge of allowing fiction to overwhelm through its excess
Conversations
Interview with Fang Lu
The artist reveals her interest in food as an artistic medium and discusses the reality of being a female artist in China today
Conversations
Interview with Phuong Linh Nguyen
The Vietnamese artist talks about salt workers, her shift away from provocative imagery, and her work with Nhasan Studio in Hanoi
1 Resource
Sat, 26 May 2018
From Ladies at Leisure to Internet Avatar: Women in the Arts in China
WATCH: This talk discusses the position and representation of women in the visual arts in Mainland China from the late Qing dynasty to the present day.
