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Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now

Dates: 3 and 4 November 2022

We're very excited to announce the full list of speakers and their presentation topics for this upcoming 2-day online symposium, gathering key voices in the field of contemporary Southeast Asian art. We hope you'll be interested to join us for this exciting array of presentations. Registration is free and open to all. Please share the program with your networks.

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Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now
3-4 November 2022
Convenors: 
Michelle Antoinette, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Art History and Theory, Monash University
Francis Maravillas, Assistant Professor, Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art program, National Taipei University of Education

Program
DAY 1 Thursday 3rd November
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 to Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now
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

With 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

Session Moderator: Grace Samboh, Yogyakarta-based independent curator and researcher

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 

Session Moderator: Alia Swastika, Curator and Director, Jogja Biennale Foundation in Yogyakarta 

General Discussion and Closing Remarks 
Led by Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas 

DAY 2  Friday 4th November
8.45am-3.30pm Taipei time / 11.45am-6.30pm Melbourne (AEDT)

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

Session 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

Session 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; and
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)
Session Moderators: Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas

Symposium Closing Discussion: Reflections and Responses 
Led by Michelle Antoinette and Francis Maravillas

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About the Symposium
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 Horizons encourages thinking and discussion across historical and present-day contexts, as well as future trajectories of practice that are shaping the field. 
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: 
• The Curatorial and Exhibition-Making 
• Contemporary Practices of Art 
• Revisiting the 1990s 
• Shaping knowledge 
• Alternate Mappings 
• Collective Ecologies and Methodologies 

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 University Art Design & Architecture (MADA) in Melbourne, and Critical and Curatorial Studies of Contemporary Art at NTUE (CCSCA) in 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.

Join us for the 2-day online symposium,

Shifting Grounds, New Horizons: Thinking and doing contemporary Southeast Asian art now, 3-4 November 2022

Dr Michelle Antoinette

Researcher of Modern & Contemporary Asian Art

Senior Lecturer, Art History and Theory Program

Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Art History and Curating

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