Southeast of Now: Volume 8, Number 2 & Volume 9, Number 1, March 2025

[Simon Soon]

Hi everyone,

Sharing the good news that the latest double-issue of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia is now online. Australian scholars are widely represented in our double issue, edited by Yvonne Low (USyd) and myself. 

Included in this issue are:  

- Edwin Jurriëns on "From Wild School to Wild Food: Struggles for Food Sovereignty in Indonesian Research-based Art."

- Adrian Vickers on "LEKRA, Aesthetics and the Politics of Indonesian Art."

- Bianca Winataputri, Bianca on "Forging Regional Connections—Reflecting on the Artists' Regional Exchange (ARX) at Present." 

This journal is open access thanks to the support of the Chen Chong Swee Asian Arts Programme at Yale-NUS College and the Foundation for Arts Initiatives. To read the latest issue, please follow the link here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54888

Warmest,

Simon Soon