Reflections on Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia
Talk
Tue, 17 Nov 2020
Backyards and Neighbourhoods: Feminist Strategies and Communities
Talk
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
Ming Tiampo | Slade, London, Asia: Intersections of Decolonial Modernism
London, Asia | Talk
Thu, 12 Dec 2019
Chaitanya Sambrani | Careers of Internationalism: Baroda and Bandung
Talk
53 Ideas
Conversations
Publishing as Method: In Conversation with Ozge Ersoy and Paul C. Fermin
On publishing cultures and trends, conceptualisations of “Asia,” and care and community during the COVID-19 pandemic
Essays
You Are Here
Jennifer Deger on the limits of modernist cartographies, and how art and anthropology might speak to the environmental crises of our time
Notes
Gudskul Art Collective: Learning while Nongkrong, Nongkrong while Learning
Angga Wijaya reflects on the Jakarta-based art collective’s belief in togetherness and experience-based pedagogy
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Speculation as Method
Merve Ünsal looks at artist books in Turkey that wrestle with narrating the unnarratable
Essays
The International Student as a Term of Art
David Xu Borgonjon discusses the racial politics of art school recruitment, and its structural effects on contemporary art
Essays
The Aesthetic Project of Remaking “Yellow” Identity
Mimi Wong explores the slippery notion of an "Asian aesthetic," and the many ways it can manifest in East Asian and diasporic art
Essays
From Within the Fog
Trisha Low’s lyric ruminations on art writing, gestures of refusal, and the unresolvable desire for shared utopia amidst crisis and collapse
Essays
Is It Socially Engaged Art?: The Debate over “Art Projects” in Japan
Yeung Tin Shui traces alternatives to Eurocentric conceptions of art projects in Japan
Notes
I Go South
Anthony Yung reflects on Cantonese art and the challenges of representation
Essays
Ren Hang in the Global City
Nicholas Gamso considers Ren Hang’s engagement with urban space and queer body politics
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
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
Accumulated Grace: Nilima Sheikh on the Dunhuang Caves
Nilima Sheikh discusses histories of the Dunhuang Caves and their influence on her work
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
Conversations
Phoebe Wong in Conversation with Ozge Ersoy
On artworks, museums, rivers, and distributed ownership
Notes
The Ground Underneath: On Ho Tzu Nyen's The Nameless
Võ Hồng Chương-Đài examines how Ho's video installation acts as a non sequitur to colonialist and nationalist historiographies
Notes
Periodicals, American Interventions, and Art in Asia During the Cold War
On Ho Tzu Nyen's research in relation to items in the Ha Bik Chuen Archive
Conversations
Building Asia Art Archive
A brief history of the non-profit organisation as told through priority areas of research and programming interest
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Being Minorities — Contemporary Asian Art
Ha Bik Chuen's documentation of the 1997 Hong Kong exhibition curated by Oscar Ho
Conversations
Ho Tzu Nyen on The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia
The Singaporean artist discusses tigers, ghosts, algorithms, and life after celluloid film
Essays
Notes on the "Vernacular" Milieus of Art Writing
Sneha Ragavan questions the dominance of English in India’s art historiography and criticism
Collection Spotlight
Off the Shelf | Pacific Crossings: Hong Kong Artists in Vancouver
A collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery
Notes
Framing Spatial Stories: Life Beyond the Plan, Survey, and Grid
Solomon Benjamin and Wing Shing Tang's artistic explorations of Hong Kong for 15 Invitations
Essays
17 Lost Art Exhibitions
Jack Persekian documents a global pattern of loss for Palestinian art
Notes
AAA's Collection: Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs
Visualisations of data about AAA's Collection
Essays
Notes from the Field: Navigating the Afterlife of The Other Story
Rasheed Araeen's critical challenge to art historical narratives through art curation
Notes
A Parallel Narrative
Francisco Camacho investigates the similarities between Chinese and South American "antiquity"
Essays
A Short Story of Bagyi Aung Soe in Five Images
Yin Ker discusses the transformation of desire through meditation on desire
Notes
After the Plague
Phoebe Wong considers an exhibition's haunting imagery after the traumas of SARS and Leslie Cheung's suicide
Essays
Atlas of Asia Art Archive
Map Office explores how Asia is a point of arrival and departure
Essays
Mapping Asia
Note from the Editors
Conversations
A Conversation Between Chen Kuan-hsing and Rasheed Araeen
On art, history, institutions, and decolonisation struggles
Conversations
Interview with Tintin Wulia
The Indonesian artist discusses global citizenship, the prevalence of maps in her work, and the secret that haunts her family
Essays
Tracing (Un)certain Legacies: Conceptualism in Singapore and the Philippines
Isabel Ching complicates art historical narratives on conceptualism as a historiographic category
Essays
Viewed from a Train: Glimpses of the Artist as Hong Kong Citizen
Valerie C. Doran looks at an arts festival held in a Hong Kong village slated for demolition, and how artists respond to social issues in alternative ways
Essays
Predicaments and Promises: Reflections on Art Writing in Malaysia and Singapore
Kelvin Chuah argues that new, transdisciplinary efforts are needed to analyse modern art in Malaysia and Singapore
Essays
Asian Canadian Art Matters
Alice Ming Wai Jim explores why Asian Canadian art matters now
Essays
Cultural Exchange and Civil Society in Asia: A Perspective From India
Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director, and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India
Conversations
Interview with Bani Abidi
The Pakistani artist discusses the development of contemporary Pakistani art, her work, and her personal experience of Pakistan and India
Essays
Regional Formation and the Postcolonial Question: Contemporary Art in Hong Kong and the PRD
Carolyn Cartier, Professor of Human Geography and China Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney
Notes
Photologue | The World Meets at "Making Worlds"
Images from the 53rd Venice Biennale
Essays
Beyond the Collection Display
Reiko Tomii is a New York-based independent scholar and curator who investigates post 1945 Japanese art in global and local contexts
Conversations
Interview with Varsha Nair
The Thailand-based artist discusses her mixed background, her views on female artists, the art scene, and recent turmoils in Thailand and India
Notes
Photologue | Largest Exhibition on Contemporary Indian Art in Japan
Images of "BRIC" contemporary art in Japan
Notes
Research Log | Contextualizing and Contesting Current Conversations in South Asian Art
On the dynamism of the Pakistani art scene
Essays
Re-imagi(ni)ng the Buddha: The Multiplicity of Authenticities in Contemporary Tibetan Art
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Assistant Professor of Tibetan Cultural History at the University of Alabama
Notes
Photologue | Between Folk Culture and Contemporary in Kaohsiung, Jun 2008
Images of A Kaleidoscopic View at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Notes
Research Log | Nothing If Not Liberated
Phoebe Wong travels to Myanmar for the Festival of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art
Notes
Travelogue | New York
Images exploring Pakistan’s presence in New York’s contemporary art scene
Notes
Shisha and the First Asia Triennial Manchester
Alnoor Mitha, Director at Shisha
Essays
On the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Handover
Frank Vigneron discusses the idea of provincialism in France, in relation to Hong Kong identity and culture
Notes
The Near Future: Asian Art in the UK
Sally Lai, an independent curator and fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme
Collection Spotlight
Shortlist | Exhibition as Cartographic Articulation
Recommended readings on how recent exhibitions have framed nations and/or regions, and the factors that have driven these geographic imaginings
3 Resources
Tue, 26 Sep 2017
Vietnam: The Making of the Modern and the Contemporary
WATCH: This talk unpacks and examines modern and contemporary art in Vietnam in relation its colonial history.
Tue, 1 May 2007
Unveiling Contemporary Art in Central Asia
Leeza Ahmady | 2005 Martell AAA Research Grant
Wed, 21 Jun 2006
Mediating the Mekong
Richard Streitmatter-Tran | Martell AAA Research Grant
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