Weekly S.E.A. Radar: SEA’s only underground EDM festival; Filipino writer Leoncia Deriada dies; KL’s Rex Cinema repurposed to arts centre REXKL
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Weeky S.E.A. Radar: The Krossing Over Arts Festival in Vietnam; Thailand’s first transgender MP, filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Goodbye Democrazy; Art Fair Philippines 2019
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Political Art ahead of Thailand’s elections; the 9th Cambodian International Film Festival
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Open Calls and Opportunities: March 2019 (Singapore)
Internship at NUS Museum, May to August 2019 Applications are now open for the NUS Museum Internship Programme! Five positions are available in exhibitions, outreach and collections across the period of the university summer holidays. If you have always wanted…
Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Low Fat Art Fes; “The Vagina Monologues” in conservative Myanmar; “Sex in Georgetown City” gets policed
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Brunei’s new film school; Indonesian art collective ruangrupa to curate Documenta
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: 11th Yangon Photo Festival; Cambodia’s first feminist arts festival
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Environmental Activism and Art; “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War”; The Fall of Art Stage
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Open Calls and Opportunities: February 2019 (Singapore)
Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative 2019 Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility Initiative is the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)’s travel grant for artists and cultural professionals. Mobility First! supports a wide variety of activity types (workshop/training, conference/forum, festival/biennale,…
Weekly S.E.A. Radar: “More Beaches, Less Gamelan”, A Secret Singapore History of Drum and Bass
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Weekly S.E.A. Radar: Digital Public Art in Hanoi, A Mobile Library in rural Cambodia
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Weekly S.E.A Radar: From Cambodia’s psych rock festival to “Concept, Context, Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia” in Yangon
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Music – a propaganda promoting the Khmer Rouge socialist identity (via the Phnom Penh Post)
Shortly after their rise to power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge sought to change the social identity of the Khmer people. Through forced relocation, expropriation of possessions and separation of family members, the regime sought to eliminate old identities…
After a century of false dawns, the film industry is beginning to rise (via SEA Globe)
The rollercoaster ride of Indonesia’s film industry is currently cresting yet another hill in its bumpy, twisting history. Southeast Asia Globe talks with a feature moviemaker who’s taking a break from the big screen to tell stories for HBO Asia. Indonesian filmmaker…
Galleries informed that art fair Art Stage Singapore cancelled (via The Straits Times)
SINGAPORE – At least five galleries slated to participate in Art Stage Singapore say the art fair has been cancelled by organisers. This would have been the ninth edition of the contemporary art fair, which was to run from Jan…
Female artists, art biennial to grace National Gallery this year (via The Jakarta Post)
Indonesia’s arts scene is by no means lacking, yet most of its big names are men, with notable female artists largely unexplored. An upcoming art exhibition at the National Gallery in Central Jakarta, titled Into the Future, aims to change…
Open Calls and Job Opportunities: January 2019 (Singapore)
General Manager at Checkpoint Theatre Checkpoint Theatre is looking to hire a General Manager, a newly created position. The GM will have particular responsibility for finance; regulatory compliance and reporting; human resources, fundraising, and partnerships. You should have: – a…
In Ho Chi Minh City, there’s a music street called Nguyen Thien Thuat (via Tuoi Tre News)
Nguyen Thien Thuat Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, is best known for its wide array of music stores. But it is not just the stores that make the street popular. There is an aura of good old…
Indonesia at the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (via New Mandala)
Gaining a place at the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) has been a significant milestone in the careers of many Indonesian artists. Although they were already well known in art circles, the…
Masked dance tradition rises from near extinction in Cambodia (via Reuters)
PHNOM PENH/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Cambodia’s centuries-old tradition of masked dance was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge’s “Killing Fields” regime, but a handful of artists managed to keep it alive and are now working to pass it along to…
Radical theatre of the difabled (via Inside Indonesia)
Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves (Augusto Boal, founder, Theatre of the Oppressed) The performance took place on a makeshift open-air stage using only simple props, under the roof of a traditional Javanese theatre. The pendopo, as it is…
Film Review: Ten Years Thailand (via New Mandala)
“Will it still be customary for movie-goers to stand for the royal anthem ten years from now?” I wonder, as the familiar ritual compels me to my feet before the start of the feature. Ten Years Thailand invites four Thai directors…
It’s Time for French Museums to Return Cambodian Artifacts (via The Diplomat)
The debate as to whether international museums and governments should return cultural artifacts acquired during the colonial period is not a new one. However, it has now been re-energized by French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision that France will return 26 cultural…
Gloomy outlook for Vietnamese cinema, literature scene: workshop (via Tuoi Tre News)
Attendees at a national workshop held in Hanoi on Wednesday to discuss the multitude of issues plaguing the Vietnamese film and literature industries were not shy about voicing disdain for the current state of literary and cinematic art in Vietnam. …
What to expect from the Repertory Philippines stage in 2019 (via Rappler)
MANILA, Philippines – Theater junkies of all ages will be happy to know that our local theater scene has some top-notch stage entertainment up its talented sleeve for everyone to enjoy in 2019. Repertory Philippines, one of the country’s leading…
Pho Ben Doi art exhibition returns to Da Lat in December
The third edition of Da Lat’s annual Pho Ben Doi art exhibition will feature more than 125 artworks by nearly 50 young, well-known Vietnamese and international artists and experts in archeology, architecture, and music from December 8, 2018 to February…
Examining Vietnam’s Modernity Through the Lens of South Asian Independent Documentaries
The idea for Moving Reels: A Social Dialog formed in 2016 as the result of a dialogue between Dr. Shweta Kishore, a scholar, documentary filmmaker, film and media lecturer at RMIT University, and Zoe Butt, a director and curator at…
Saigoneer Bookshelf: A Touch of Magical Realism in ‘The Cemetery of Chua Village’
Vietnam transitioned to a market economy like an old train lurching to life: momentous shakes and shudders, steam bursting out busted gaskets, disheveled cargo tumbling from luggage racks, sparks shooting off wheels screeching across warped rails and a whistle ripping…
‘Maaf Senin Tutup’: 1998 through eclectic eyes of Anggun Priambodo (via The Jakarta Post)
Anggun Priambodo’s latest exhibition is framed under the guise of a fictional character he created for his last movie of the same name, Maaf Senin Tutup (Sorry, Closed on Mondays) — an artist named Eva who is trying to establish herself in…