Urbanism]]> Environmental Crisis]]> As They Grow Older and Wiser (2016). Ang was fascinated by the legal loopholes that allowed for a massive transplanting of rare and exotic trees from the region of Chiang Mai to the fast-changing city of Bangkok for decorative purposes. Framed against Singapore’s nation-building narratives, the artist is interested in the manipulation of nature through state-driven initiatives and policies of environmental control, greening, and city-branding. Such endeavours include the Tree Planting campaign of 1963 and the government’s subsequent initiatives directed to fabricate a new understanding of nature and obliterate the country’s past of clearing forests to make way for plantation economy.]]> Ang Song Nian]]> Photography]]> Installation]]> Southeast Asia]]> Nature]]> Jamie North]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Artistic Research]]> Márton Orosz]]> Marton Orosz]]> Film]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Politics]]> Munem Wasif]]> Photography]]> Video]]> Southeast Asia]]> History]]> Identity]]>
Since it’s independence in 1965, Singapore has become an important part of regional economic and also culture development. Widasari’s research will explore the nostalgia of places of Singapore, which will be recorded and transferred to a variety of mediums, such as: video, drawing, painting and photography. This memory is related to the history of Singaporean issues in the geopolitical map of the ASEAN community viewed through cultural, economic and political perspectives such as gender issues and freedom of expression.]]>
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Animals]]> Nature]]> The Museum of Disappearance, sets out to unravel the dormant narratives embedded in the photographs in order to shed a different light onto the complex history of our relationship with nature. Further expanding on his interest in the interaction between humans and the natural environment, he plans to conduct extensive fieldwork in the backwoods behind his studio, a patch of secondary forest stretching from Malan Road to Henderson Road, documenting its trees and natural habitat.]]> Robert Zhao Renhui]]> Robert Zhao]]> Zhao Renhui]]> Object]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Environmental Crisis]]> Nature]]> Susanne Kriemann]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> The Anthropocene]]> Tanatchai Bandasak]]> Installation]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]> Mythology]]> Time Boomerang, a long-term project started in 2013 that explores the lasting influence of colonialism. As a Vietnamese artist whose life has been defined by diasporic experiences, he frames his relation to history from a personal perspective. Articulated in eight phases, this ambitious project has a global scope and moves along a dizzying timeline of 250 millions years. The first phase, titled Phase 1. The Real Distance of Things Measured: The Cast of the Hands and Its Five Fingertips, revolves around the idea of measurement and has been presented at the Bildmuseet Museum of Contemporary Art, Umeå, Sweden, (2015).

UuDam Tran Nguyen’s multidisciplinary practice spans across different mediums often combining sophisticated technological devices with materials such as clay, rubber, wood, and fabrics.]]>
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Identity]]> History]]> Politics]]> Yee I-Lann]]> Curating]]> Photography]]> Southeast Asia]]>