What is the reception and place of Indigenous art in an international context? How has this reception changed in recent years? Candice Hopkins will speak about two recent and separate projects—the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, which launched in September 2019, and the most recent Canadian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale featuring the media art collective Isuma—with both having a focus on Indigenous art.
Why are structural changes at cultural institutions the best ways to address historical conundrums that affect our present condition? What kinds of contemporary artistic practices help make meaningful change possible? How does collective learning become an imperative modus operandi? Hernández Chong Cuy proposes some tentative answers to these questions with ongoing projects and case studies developed with her team at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, which she leads as Director since January 2018.
Drawing on Teh’s recent publications “Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary” (2017) and “Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992-98” (2018), this talk situates these publication in the context of contemporary art in Thailand and the recent surge in the currency of Art History itself.
September 10, 2019 BAP Outpost, The Alley at Karrivin
The lecture gives an overview of the postwar visual history in Taiwan, with a focus on the avant-garde practices in theater, film, publications, and photography.
August 20, 2019 BAP Outpost, The Alley at Karrivin
Confronting ideas in the context of contemporary decolonization and demilitarization in the Philippines, Dvorak explores the correlative patterns of violence, dehumanization, resistance and empowerment, as expressed in the visual histories of the Pacific region, and delineate the shared ancestral roots and lived experiences of indigenous people from the Pacific Islands and the Philippines.
This artist talk navigates through Ergun's filmmaking practice, unearthing representations of communities that are not known to a greater public and the importance of ritual in such groups. Specifically, focused around his work with OFW communities in different parts of the world including his 10-year research in the making of “Bibinining Promised Land (2010).”
In ‘Diving and Thinking’ a presentation of the current stage of their practice, Raqs Media Collective presents the eddies and currents in their thinking - the things that occupy their triangulated minds - these range from a concern with the futures and histories of materials and energies, as well as forays into shipwrecks, mines and spaces of open and hidden power.
