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8 August 2021 (9:00 GMT / 5:00 GMT+8)
On ASEAN Day, curators Kristian Jeff Agustin (Philippines), Amy Matthewson (Canada & UK), Yen Ooi (UK & Malaysia) and Martin Vidanes (Philippines) re-adopt the ASEAN Declaration (1967) into today’s sociopolitical climate to challenge what is archaic and historic about ‘Southeast Asia’ as both an identity and a geopolitical bloc. Dubbed ‘ASEAN MANIFESTO’, the collaborative performance piece serves as a culmination of a series of paracuratorial experiments initiated by Agustin in 2020.
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The ASEAN Declaration (1967)
20, 22 & 29 November 2020 (9:00 GMT / 5:00 GMT+8)
Curator Kristian Jeff Agustin’s MESA SA KWARTO is literally a desk in his room which serves as his only workspace while observing the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in Manila, Philippines since March 2020. He makes do with this desk (mesa) in his room (kwarto) to offer an expandable ‘exhibition space’ in a live Zoom Gallery.
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30 November – 15 December 2020
In ANONYMISED SKIES, co-curator Martin Vidanes (Philippines) invites residents and visitors of Southeast Asian countries to locate their specific co-ordinates while taking pictures of the sky. A panoramic glimpse of the big picture is thus almost made visible: that despite the borders, rifts, and seas within the geopolitics of the region, when looking up at the same sky, we are made one.
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5 – 15 December 2020
Co-curators Kerrine Goh and Andy Chan (Singapore) re/de-construct images into intersections in CROSSWORLD PUZZLE. The popular word game is remade into a visual play to trigger what we make of various photographs taken from places across Southeast Asia — snapshots of crowds, cuisines, cities, shops, and, souvenirs. Look at the clues scattered here and there; solve them pic by pic.
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15 December 2020
Yen Ooi (UK & Malaysia) wrote ‘MOTHER TONGUE’ as a bold and resolute response to those who project ideas onto a person’s skin and fail to see the individual for who they are, in all their cultural, linguistic and ethnic multiplicity. Yen Ooi is a writer-researcher whose works explore cultural storytelling and its effects on identity.
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MADE IN ASEAN Online Exhibition ran live from 15 November to 15 December 2020, bookended by the 37th ASEAN Summit[1] in Ha Noi (virtually hosted by Viet Nam as ASEAN Chair for 2020) and the 23rd anniversary of the ASEAN-wide adoption of the ASEAN Vision 2020[2] declaration in 1997. With the virtual gallery still open to the public, the online exhibition features the outcomes of a months-long participatory photography project with contributions from the participants: Andy Chan (Singapore), Faizul H. Ibrahim (Brunei), Freya Chow-Paul (UK & Singapore), Katrine Hong (China & Philippines), Dr Kathryn Kyaw (Myanmar), Kerrine Goh (Singapore), Martin Vidanes (Philippines), Dr Nursalwa Baharuddin (Malaysia), Phát Nguyen (Viet Nam), Phynuch Thong (Cambodia), Prach Gosalvitra (Thailand), Rodrygo Harnas Siregar (Indonesia), Yammy Patchaya Teerawatsakul (Thailand), and an anonymous participant (Lao PDR). Photographs from other international contributors were also included (see credits in the virtual gallery). This asynchronous online exhibition builds on the visual culture research led by Kristian Jeff Agustin (Philippines), during his PhDstudies at Manchester School of Art, UK.
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[1] 12 – 15 November 2020 (via the ASEAN Viet Nam 2020 official website: https://asean2020.vn)
[2] 15 December 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (reference: https://asean.org/?static_post=asean-vision-2020)
