Organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
(Registration begins at 13:30)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
13.30 – Registration<\/p>\n\n\n\n
14.00 – PART 1: NEW BOOK <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Power, Politics and the Street: contemporary art in Southeast Asia after 1970 <\/em><\/strong>(Lund Humphries, 2024)<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>by iola Lenzi (Southeast Asian contemporary art specialist)<\/p>\n\n\n\n iola Lenzi introduces her new monograph illuminating the history of contemporary Southeast Asian art from its scattered 1970s beginnings to recent production. Highlighting works\u2019 shared expressive traits across our diverse region, the book answers when, why, and how artists from Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and later Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar developed contemporary art languages. Showing this art\u2019s innovating aesthetic, conceptual, and circulatory modes linked to local social-political-cultural contexts, the book argues for Southeast Asian contemporary art’s distinctive voice within global contemporary art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14.45 – Q & A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15.00 – PART 2: PANEL DISCUSSION <\/p>\n\n\n\n