{"id":8118,"date":"2019-10-18T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ga-beta.geidai.ac.jp\/?p=8118\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:45:23","slug":"david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geidai-ga.warpjapan.com\/en\/2019\/10\/18\/david\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Lecture Series Introduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age: The Democratic Festival? Non-conformity and Regionalism in Southeast Asian Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special Lecture Series
\nIntroduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age:
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Nightly gathering at Tha Pae Gate, Chiang Mai during the 2nd Week of Cooperative Suffering, 1996. Image courtesy Uthit Atimana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n 
\n\u201cIntroduction to Art and Culture in the Global Age\u201d is a series of special lectures organized by the Graduate school of Global Arts. In this course, we invite specialists from around the world to give lectures and workshops. Hosted by Curation field, this time we welcome David Teh, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n

What is the place of the festival in contemporary art, and in its history? What becomes of community and locality, of spontaneity and participation, as the fringes of contemporary art\u2019s sprawling geography are charted by a now global market, and institutional desires for a global art history? This talk stems from my recent research on artist-initiated festivals held in Southeast Asia during the 1980s and 1990s. These gatherings show that while national representation was the usual ticket to participation on a global circuit, it wasn’t an essential determinant of contemporaneity; and that it was localism, rather than any internationalism, that defined the affinities amongst Southeast Asian artists at the time. The sites of this becoming contemporary were festive, but they also occasioned the accumulation of certain values and powers, and unruly articulations of political dissent. What does this complexity mean for the study of Asian contemporary art in its increasingly global context?<\/p>\n

Date: <\/strong>November 15, Friday, 2019
\nTime: <\/strong> 7pm – 9pm
\nPlace: <\/strong>GA Lecture Room, Tokyo University of the Arts
\nGuest Lecturer: <\/strong>David Teh\uff08writer, curator and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore\uff09<\/p>\n

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photo by Alex Davies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Teh<\/strong>
\nDavid Teh is a writer, curator and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, specializing in Southeast Asian contemporary art. His curatorial projects have included Returns (12th Gwangju Biennale, 2018), Misfits: Pages from a Loose-leaf Modernity (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017), Transmission (Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, 2014), Video Vortex #7 (Yogyakarta, 2011), and Unreal Asia (55. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2009). Teh\u2019s essays have appeared in Third Text, Afterall, Artforum International, Theory Culture & Society, and ARTMargins. His book Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary was published by the MIT Press in 2017, and he was co-editor (with David Morris) of Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992-98 (2018), for Afterall\u2019s Exhibition Histories series. <\/p>\n

Enquries: <\/strong>
\nFaculty Room, Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices
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