Tue, 14 Aug 2018

Sarena Abdullah | Soft Power in Post-independence Malaya

London, Asia | Talk

7 Nov 2016–2 Jun 2017

Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan | Cabinet of Resistance I

15 Invitations | Exhibition

10 Jul 2013–21 Mar 2017

Artist-in-Residence | Ho Tzu Nyen

Residency Programme

Aug–Sep 2016

Ruangrupa | Toko Pura-pura

15 Invitations | Workshop

Reference

Going Indochinese: Contesting Concepts of Space and Place in French Indochina

Christopher E. GOSCHA
2012

Monograph

Chinese in Small Places of Southeast Asia

小城故事
2013

Monograph

Liu Kang: Colourful Modernist

2011

Exhibition Catalogue

The Roving Eye: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia (Exhibition Guide)

2014

Monograph

Female Image Writing: Lulu Shur-tzy Hou's Photography Work (1989-2009)

女性影像書寫: 侯淑姿影像創作集 (1989-2009)
2012

Reference

The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia and the World

Benedict ANDERSON
1998

Periodical

The Quarterly (All Holdings)

2013

Reference

Reworlding Art History: Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990

Michelle ANTOINETTE
2015

Collection Spotlight

Shortlist | The Semi-Autonomous Zine: Charting Margins and Peripheries in Independent Publishing

Recommended readings on zine and independent publishing cultures in East and South East Asia

Notes

Toko Pura-Pura (Quasi-shop)

A Jakarta-based artist collective creates a transactional space where knowledge and ideas are exchanged through collaborations

Essays

A Short Story of Bagyi Aung Soe in Five Images

Yin Ker discusses the transformation of desire through meditation on desire

Essays

Contemporary Asian Art at the Guggenheim

Three approaches to framing contemporary art outside a Eurocentric framework

Essays

Spatializing the Contemporary, Philippine-Style

Oscar Campomanes provides a conceptual and cultural critique of The Philippine Contemporary exhibition

Conversations

Interview with James Chu

The artist discusses Macau, his work for the recent Venice Biennale, and how he became an artist

Essays

An Expanded Questionnaire on the Contemporary: Part II

AAA expands upon Hal Foster’s 2009 questionnaire on "the contemporary"

Notes

Photologue | Passage Through India

Images of a trip to India during the India Art Fair

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

Notes

Photologue | Drawing Lines: Shadows along the Equator

Images of Biennale Jogja XI

Notes

Photologue | The New Generation of Manila’s Artist-Run Spaces

Images of the newest artist-run spaces in Manila

Collection Spotlight

Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990

In 2006, AAA began locating, collecting, and preserving a large body of important material from the 1980s, a period in China's art history that was in danger of being lost.

Conversations

Interview with Manuel Ocampo

The Filipino artist shares how his practice has changed since he started painting, his return to Manila, and the gallery and art school he has started there

Notes

Photologue | Shanghai Highlights

Images of exhibition openings during the SH Contemporary in Shanghai

Conversations

Interview with Arin Rungjang

The Thai artist reveals the role collaboration plays in his work and discusses his interest in everyday objects and exchanges

Essays

Art as Voice: Political Art in Southeast Asia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Art as an important sociopolitical voice on inequality, corruption, the environment, and authoritarianism

Notes

Photologue | Hong Kong Heat Wave

Images of Hong Kong's art scene in the summer

Conversations

Interview with Roslisham Ismail (a.k.a. Ise)

The Malaysian artist discusses his collaboration with six Singaporean families and the socioeconomic problems stemming from Malaysia's "New Economic Policy"

Notes

Photologue | Probing the New: Open Edit and More in Ho Chi Minh City

Images of a trip to Ho Chi Minh City during AAA's Open Edit: Mobile Library

Collection Spotlight

Off the Shelf | On Censorship

The AAA team considers past cases of censorship in a region where freedom of artistic expression is in many cases impossible