“American Art in Asia” @ National Gallery Singapore, 2 February 2024

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Book Launch and Panel Discussion: “American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence”

How do we think and talk about “American” and/or “Asian” art, at a time when the production and display of contemporary art is taking place across diffused borders, under the fluid conditions of a world dramatically transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis, and the recent wars on multiple fronts in Europe and the Middle East?

Moderated by art historian Dr Karin Oen, this panel brings together artist James Jack, art historian Michelle Lim, and curator Russell Storer, to reflect on how postwar notions about national and personal identities have given way to new conversations about ecological sustainability, migration and migrants, community and the Global South issues. Their critical perspectives about the histories and historiographies of art, along with the long history of exchanges between the Americas and Asia, bring fresh insights into how cultural vicissitudes in the Asia-Pacific region are complex and multi-layered, shaping art practices and audience engagement in new ways.

This discussion is based on the recently published anthology American Art in Asia: Artistic Praxis and Theoretical Divergence (Routledge, 2022), which includes contributions from the panelists, as well as other leading scholars, curators and artists around the world.

02 Feb 2024
04.00 PM – 05.30 PM
NATIONAL GALLERY SINGAPORE

The Agee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
(City Hall Wing, Basement 1)
1 St Andrew’s Road, Singapore 178957)

Register:
http://soh.school/arhist-panel

Contact: 
Michelle Lim
mlim@ntu.edu.sg

Dirt DJ @ lumbung radio Helsinki, September 2023

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bacilli x Jevon Chandra
Dirt DJ: version two

11’01”

bacilli. Dirt currents (work in progress) 2023. PACT Zollverein

Tap into the energy of microorganisms inside the earth’s soil. What do these bacteria inside of land say to us? Dirt Radio shares artistic methods for harvesting alternative energy that heightens human awareness of other species. Layering geological research on coal histories, oral histories with residents on energy in the Ruhr area and connecting power circuits with imaginative thinking form this radio program. How can we live synergistically together with currents flowing through the earth?

bacilli (James Jack, Yoshitaka Nanjo & Shotaro Yoshino) is an artist collective formed in 2014 based in the archipelago of Japan with the aim to nurture active spaces for living with dirt, history, people, food, microbes and spirits. Through artistic engagement with earth, they build hopeful models for how we can live in co-habitation with more than human life. This work is made in collaboration with Jevon Chandra interdisciplinary artist devoted to praxis guided by decency, honesty, and possibility.

https://pixelache.ac/events/forum-pixelache-x-lumbung-radio

“Soilstory” @ Oku-Noto Triennale 23 Sept – 12 Nov 2023

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Soilstory – つちがたり –

Tools, images, relics, video and dirt

Variable dimensions

“We created this work focusing on the voices of historic objects. Research conducted on the local farming ritual “Ae no Koto” along with memories, dialogue and exchanges with local residents and relics obtained from diverse collections are integral parts of this “Soilstory” installation. Two live performances were held during the triennial simultaneously online and in person to work creatively with distances between people and things during a pandemic, thus in the retelling of soil stories spaces for shared wishes towards the future emerge.”

奥能登国際芸術祭2023
最涯の芸術祭、美術の最先端。

会期｜2023年9月23日-11月12日　
会場｜石川県珠洲市全域　247.20k㎡

Soilstory –つちがたり–

民具の声に焦点を当てることをテーマに作品を展
開。「あえのこと」や土の記憶などのリサーチや
現地の人々との対話、また大蔵ざらえで得た「も
の・証拠」を素材に、インスタレーションを行
う。舞台では、パンデミック中の人やモノとの距
離感を縮める祭事をコンセプトとしたライブを行
う。共有する願いを物語とすることで未来の理想
的な社会を浮かび上がらせる。

https://www.suzu-stm.jp/museum.html